NYC Comptroller Report Sounds Alarm on Dangers of Unregulated Last Mile Delivery, Calls for Passage of Delivery Protection Act

In a new report, Fast Shipping. Slow Justice, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander found that the City’s lack of regulations on rapidly growing e-commerce and last-mile delivery services led to significant increases in crashes, traffic and workplace injuries, and concentrated air pollution in predominantly in Black and Brown neighborhoods.  

Daily package deliveries in New York City grew from 1.8 million before the pandemic to 2.5 million in 2024, with roughly one-in-three New Yorkers receiving packages daily. On Monday, Comptroller Lander joined Teamsters Joint Council 16 and Local 804, the NYC CLC, elected officials, street safety advocates, and environmental justice organizers in calling on City Hall to address the growing problem. A key finding of the report was the critical need to pass the Delivery Protection Act (Intro 1396), to establish a licensing program to establish essential labor standards, bring liability to facility operators via requiring direct employment, and to curb worker injuries and vehicle crashes. Read more here, find the full report here, watch a stream of the press conference here, and check out coverage from amNY here.