SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Atlanta-based UPS has quietly eliminated more than a thousand jobs per week this year – in a major restructuring of the package delivery company.

In addition to UPS, Amazon has also made job cuts.

Big tractor-trailers entered and exited the sprawling UPS warehouse off I-85 in DeKalb County on Tuesday at a fraction of the pace this facility saw a decade ago, when UPS's biggest customer was Amazon.

Now Amazon delivers its own packages. And both companies are now reducing their workforces.

UPS, headquartered in Sandy Springs, announced it has reduced its operational workforce by 34,000 jobs so far this year, plus another 14,000 mostly management jobs.

The company told investors it expects to save $3.5 billion by the end of this year, "with the intent to right-size o

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