Amazon has hired FedEx to handle some of its large package deliveries, the companies said on Monday, weeks after UPS said it was halting its less-profitable deliveries for the e-commerce retailer and cutting 20,

Amazon will outsource delivery of large packages to FedEx in a deal that should prove more profitable on a per-shipment level than shipments under the companies’ partnership that ended six years ago.

Amazon has signed a multi-year agreement with FedEx to handle residential deliveries of select large packages, marking a renewed collaboration between the two logistics giants. The deal, finalised in February,