UPS is shipping out of North Apollo.
The borough’s package distribution center is among the three UPS facilities in Pennsylvania and 73 nationwide closing as the company leans into automation and cuts back on Amazon shipments. The facilities are used to receive, store and send packages with delivery drivers.
Saturday will be the North Apollo center’s last day, according to UPS spokesperson Karen Hill.
“These closures are part of the strategic changes we are making to optimize our available capacity, improve efficiency and grow in the best parts of our business,” she said.
The world’s largest package delivery firm is busy building what it calls “the network of the future,” a modernization effort that includes cutting about 20,000 positions by year’s end — roughly 4% of its workforce.
UPS anticipates closing 73 leased or owned buildings by July, and possibly others as it reviews its network.
The consolidation is driven in part by a deal reached with Amazon, UPS’s biggest customer, to reduce the volume of packages from the ecommerce giant by more than 50% by the back half of 2026.
North Apollo officials said they saw signs of the company retreating from its distribution center in the borough. Administrator April Zakany said the facility stopped accepting package drop-offs from customers about a year ago, and general activity has slowed in recent weeks.
Councilwoman Marsha Dufour lamented the job cuts, which she said will have “spin-off effects” on the local economy. The logic is simple: Fewer workers in town means fewer people getting coffee, grabbing lunch or running errands in and around North Apollo.
Distributions centers in Harrisburg and Stroudsburg are the other two Pennsylvania locations closing.
UPS has not disclosed how many employees work at the shuttering centers, but the individual closures have not crossed the 50-termination threshold to trigger a federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification alert.
Hill said the company is “working to place as many employees as possible in other positions” and “will work with those who may be impacted throughout the process to provide support.”
She said she did not have information on remaining distribution centers in the area.
The reconfiguration does not impact any of the company’s customer-facing locations.
According to its most recent quarterly earnings report, UPS expects to save about $3.5 billion through the modernization push.
