News / The parcel empires strike back as smaller players take stock

Over the past couple of years small parcel carriers have gained ground, as behemoths FedEx, UPS and US Postal Service were inundated with traffic, to the point of having to reject some business.

But as volumes have shrunk, the large players have begun to reclaim ground from their smaller competitors.

Two years ago, as e-commerce volumes went through the roof, shippers were scrambling for capacity as the surge in traffic stretched the capacity of the large players, nudging them to decline or ...