SEATTLE — Amazon announced that it shipped over 13 billion items worldwide to Prime members either on the same day or the next day in 2025, marking its fastest delivery speeds ever for the third year in a row. In the U.S. alone, Prime members received more than 8 billion items in a day, up over 30% year over year.
Groceries and everyday essentials drove much of that growth, making up about half of all same- or next-day deliveries to U.S. Prime members in 2025. Amazon stated its faster delivery network helped U.S. members save an average of $550 on fast, free delivery last year, compared to the annual cost of a Prime membership.
Prime members worldwide saved an estimated $105 billion on delivery in 2025, according to the company.
“By expanding our fast, free delivery options to rural communities and adding fresh groceries and prescription medications to our offering, we’re proving that members don’t have to choose between speed, selection, and savings,” said Doug Herrington, CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores.
Rural reach, grocery expansion fuel speed gains
Amazon attributed much of its faster delivery to investments in its logistics network, including a $4 billion expansion of rural delivery infrastructure. The company said it converted existing rural delivery stations into hybrid hubs, enabling same-day and next-day delivery to over 4,000 smaller cities, towns, and rural areas across 44 states.
Everyday essentials have become especially popular in those markets, with items like coffee, paper products, and batteries making up 49 of the top 50 most-purchased products in newly served rural areas. Amazon reported that the average monthly number of same-day customers in rural markets nearly doubled in 2025.
At the same time, Amazon expanded its selection of perishable groceries within its same-day delivery service, enabling Prime members to order fresh foods along with general merchandise in a single checkout. The company stated that these capabilities allowed the delivery of a record 4 billion grocery and daily essentials to U.S. Prime members on the same or next day in 2025.
Pharmacy, AI, and ultra-fast pilots
Amazon also expanded same-day prescription delivery through Amazon Pharmacy, utilizing its existing delivery network to serve customers in remote areas at no extra cost to Prime members. Internationally, the company expanded Amazon Now, its under-30-minute delivery service, in India, Mexico, and the UAE, with pilot testing underway in the U.S. and the U.K.
Amazon noted that faster delivery times are largely the result of inventory placement rather than increased employee workload, with the same picking and packing processes used for both rapid and standard deliveries.
Prime launched in 2005 offering free two-day shipping on about one million items. Today, Amazon announced that Prime members can get free delivery on more than 300 million items, with tens of millions eligible for same-day or next-day delivery across the U.S.
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