UPS Mass Layoffs as 48,000 Jobs Cut

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Source: Newsweek

Published Oct 28, 2025 at 09:58 AM EDT updated Oct 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM EDT


United Parcel Service (UPS) on Tuesday said it had cut 48,000 positions in the first nine months of 2025.

The Atlanta-based company said the reductions comprised 14,000 roles primarily in management, alongside around 34,000 cuts within its “operational workforce”—employees involved in its day-to-day logistics and delivery services.

When contacted for comment, UPS directed Newsweek to Tuesday’s release and emphasized that the 48,000 cuts had already occurred.

Why It Matters

UPS said the layoffs were part of a broader effort to cut costs and reshape the company to better adapt to shifting market dynamics, as executives face pressure to stem a long-term decline in the share price, which has fallen by more than 20 percent this year.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/ups-mass-layoffs-as-48000-jobs-cut-10951313

[travelingthrulife]

1. They are trying to kill us all.

[Lovie777]

2. All of this before the 2025 holidays.........................

the rate this current Republican party is headed, for most American, it gonna be brutal.

Now tell me how much the GQP loves Christmas?

[IronLionZion]

3. Expecting less holiday shopping

because MAGA economic policies are creating so many good jobs

[erronis]

4. Amazon has just done large cuts and said it was for focusing on "AI". Not sure UPS cuts are "AI" related.

It's got to be hell to be an employee in any of these huge corporations.

[CentralMass]

5. The Orange Anus and the Oligarchy..taking as much as they can while f'cking the rest of us.

[CanonRay]

6. I got laid off from UPS when I was 19

You got into the teamsters when you had 90 days. They laid me off on the 89th day. Shitheads.

[mpcamb]

7. Postal Service is part of the Constitution.. And it's NOT a company.

It's what we do to enhance our lives... Like a living wage, like Social Security, like safety-net measures that rich
bastards don't need.

[IronLionZion]

9. MAGA wants to end the postal service because they don't make profit

I never hear them make that idiotic argument about the military, police, or ICE.

[Lemon Lyman]

10. Yup

And because, like everything, they want to privatize it - put it in the hands of one of their jerkoff rich benefactors. That way, said rich benefactor can get richer while all of the USPS employees get poorer.

[Polybius]

11. This is UPS though

Unlike USPS, it is a private company founded in 1907.

[IbogaProject]

14. United Parcel Service Inc, is this UPS

The postal service goes by USPS.

[CentralMass]

8. I fear that the economy is cratering.

[BlueWavePsych]

12. Kick

[wolfie001]

13. So, when the AI bubble bursts, then what? Kaput-ski?

Stock market's going crazy yet not many people are spending. Housing is somewhat shot. Can anyone afford the standard price of a new car? $50,000? I sure can't. Maybe the top 1%'ers can buy one off the lot.

[tclambert]

15. When they can make all their deliveries with robots and self-driving trucks, they'll lay off everybody

And when Walmart can restock their shelves with robots, that will strike hundreds of thousands more jobs off the list.

We face a future in which people can no longer trade labor for money. The machines will be able to do it ALL. And it looks like we will blindly stumble into that future with no advance planning.