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United Parcel Service

United Parcel Service, Inc.

Type Public (NYSE: UPS

(http://www.nyse.com/about/listed

/ups.html) )

Founded 1907

Headquarters Sandy Springs, Georgia, U.S.

Key people D. Scott Davis, Chairman/CEO

Industry Courier

Products Courier Express Services

Freight Forwarding Services

Logistics Services

Revenue ▲US$51.5 billion (2008)

Operating

income

▲US$5.38 billion (2008)

Net income ▲US$3.00 billion (2008)

Employees 425,300 (2008)[1]

Subsidiaries The UPS Store

UPS Supply Chain Solutions

UPS Capital

UPS Airlines

UPS Express Critical

UPS Freight

UPS Logistics

UPS Mail Innovations

UPS Professional Solutions

Website http://www.ups.com

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS

(http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/ups.html) ), commonly

referred to as UPS, is the world's largest package delivery

company. Headquartered in Sandy Springs, Georgia, United

States,[2][3] UPS delivers more than 15 million packages[4] a

day to 6.1 million customers in more than 200 countries and

territories around the world. Since 2005, its operations

include logistics and other transportation-related areas. It was

based in New York City from 1930 until 1975, Greenwich,

Connecticut from 1975 until 1991, and has been based in

Sandy Springs since 1991.

UPS is well known for its brown trucks, internally known as

package cars (hence the company nickname "The Big Brown

Machine"). UPS also operates its own airline (IATA:

5X, ICAO: UPS, Callsign: UPS ) based in Louisville,

Kentucky where its Worldport air hub is also located.

Contents

1 Company structure

1.1 U.S. Domestic Package1.2 International Package

1.3 Supply Chain & Freight

2 History3 Competitors

4 Characteristic features

4.1 Brand mark4.2 Brown

4.3 Font

4.4 Uniforms4.5 Vehicles

4.5.1 Package cars

4.5.2 Other trucks

4.6 UPS Airlines

4.7 Bicycles

4.8 Trains

5 Other codes

6 Operating subsidiaries and alliances

6.1 ANA/UPS - All Nippon/United Parcel

Coordinates: 33°56′36.16″N 84°21′34.73″W

United Parcel Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Parcel_Service

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Deal

7 Personnel structure

7.1 Chief executives

7.2 System design

8 Fees for Canadians

9 Fuel economy

10 Environmental record11 UPS Facts & Statistics

12 See also

13 References14 Further reading

15 External links

Company structure

UPS's primary business is the time-definite delivery of packages and documents worldwide. In recent years, UPS

has extended their service portfolio to include less than truckload transportation (primarily in the U.S.) and

supply chain services. UPS reports their operations in three segments: U.S. Domestic Package operations,

International Package operations, and Supply Chain & Freight operations.

U.S. Domestic Package

U.S. Domestic Package operations include the time-definite delivery of letters, documents, and packages

throughout the United States.

International Package

International Package operations include delivery to more than 200 countries and territories worldwide,

including shipments wholly outside the United States, as well as shipments with either origin or distribution

outside the United States.

Supply Chain & Freight

Supply Chain & Freight includes UPS's forwarding and contract logistics operations, UPS Freight, and other

related business units. UPS's forwarding and logistics business provides services in more than 175 countries and

territories worldwide, and includes worldwide supply chain design, execution and management, freight

forwarding and distribution, customs brokerage, mail and consulting services. UPS Freight offers a variety of

less than truckload (“LTL”) and truckload (“TL”) services to customers in North America. Other business units

within this segment include Mail Boxes Etc. (the franchisor of Mail Boxes Etc. and The UPS Store) and UPS

Capital.

History

August 28, 1907: 19-year-old Jim Casey and 18-year-old Claude Ryan founded the American MessengerCompany in Seattle, Washington, capitalized with $100 in debt.

1913: The first delivery car appeared, a Model T Ford. They merged with a competitor, Evert McCabe,


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UPS Boat on Canal Grande,Venice, Italy

and formed Merchants Parcel Delivery. Consolidated delivery was also introduced, combining packagesaddressed to a certain neighborhood onto one delivery vehicle.

1918: A new member was recruited, Charles W. Soderstrom, who helped manage their ever-growing

fleet of delivery vehicles.1919: Service began in Oakland, California. The name United Parcel Service was adopted. The first

official logo was released.

1930: A consolidated service began in New York, and soon after began operations in other major cities inthe east and midwest. First mechanical system for package sorting. Accountant George D. Smith joined

the company. The name United Parcel Service was adopted all over the country. All UPS vehicles were

then painted the familiar Pullman brown, chosen because it was considered neat, dignified, andprofessional. Headquarters moved to New York City.

1937: the UPS logo was revised for the first time. In the logo, it wrote "The Delivery System for Stores of

Quality".1940–1959: Services were expanded by acquiring "common carrier" rights to deliver packages between

all addresses, any customer, private and commercial.

1952: Blue Label Air established.1961: Renowned graphic designer Paul Rand created the iconic third

logo for UPS. The shield represented stability and integrity, and the bow

on the box represented the package service.1975: UPS moves its headquarters to Greenwich, Connecticut. UPS

began servicing all of the 48 contiguous states of the USA. UPS also

established Canadian operations in 1975. On Feb. 28, UPS Ltd. (laterchanged to UPS Canada Ltd.) began operations in Toronto, Ontario with

a single delivery vehicle. UPS Canada's head office is located in

Mississauga, Ontario.1976: UPS established itself in Europe with a domestic operation in West Germany. Blue Label Air.

1982: UPS Next-Day Air Service is offered in the US and Blue Label Air becomes UPS 2nd Day Air

Service.1988: UPS Airlines is launched.

1991: UPS moves its headquarters again - to suburban Atlanta, Georgia.

1992: UPS acquired both Haulfast and Carryfast and rebranded to UPS Supply Chain Solutions. Haulfastprovided the pallet haulage and trunking network for the CarryFast group of companies.

1995: UPS Logistics Group was established. UPS acquired SonicAir.

1997: Teamsters strike shuts down UPS.1998: UPS Capital was established.

1999: UPS acquires Challenge Air.

November 10, 1999: UPS became a public company2001: UPS acquired Mail Boxes Etc. and re-branded to The UPS Store

In March 2003, UPS unveiled a new logo, replacing the iconic package and shield originally designed in

1961 by Paul Rand.In 2004, UPS entered the heavy freight business with the December 20 announcement of the purchase of

Menlo Worldwide Forwarding, a former subsidiary of Menlo Worldwide. UPS rebranded it as UPS Supply

Chain Solutions. The purchase price was US$150 million and the assumption of US$110 million inlong-term debt.

On August 5, 2005 UPS announced that it had completed its acquisition of less-than-truckload (LTL)

trucking company Overnite Transportation for US$1.25 billion.[5] This was approved by the FTC and

Overnite shareholders on August 4, 2005. On April 28, 2006, Overnite officially became UPS Freight.

On October 3, 2005, UPS completed the purchase of LYNX Express Ltd, one of the largest independentparcel carriers in the United Kingdom, for £55.5 million (US$97.1 million) after receiving approval for the

transaction from the European Commission. The first joint package car centre operation, in Dartford,


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Kent, was opened during mid-2006..August 28, 2007: United Parcel Service celebrated its 100th anniversary.

Competitors

Major domestic (United States) competitors include United States Postal Service (USPS), and FedEx. In addition

to these domestic carriers, UPS competes with a variety of international operators, including Canada Post, TNT

N.V., Deutsche Post (owner of DHL), Royal Mail, Japan Post, India Post and many other regional carriers,

national postal services and air cargo handlers (see Package delivery and Mail pages). However, their earliest

competitor was the Distributional Overnight Western National Service (DOWNS), a service with roots in the

pony express that has since disappeared.

Historically, the bulk of UPS' competition came from inexpensive ground-based delivery services, such as Parcel

Post (USPS). But in 1998 FedEx expanded into the ground parcel delivery market by acquiring RPS (originally

Roadway Package System) and rebranding it as FedEx Ground in 2000. In 2003 DHL expanded its US

operations by acquiring Airborne Express, significantly increasing its presence in the United States, and adding

more competition in the ground delivery market. In response to this, UPS partnered with the US Postal Service

to offer UPS Mail Innovations (http://www.upsmailinnovations.com/) , a program that allows UPS to pick up

mail and transfer it to a USPS center, or destination delivery unit (DDU) (http://pe.usps.gov/Archive

/HTML/DMMArchive1209/E250.htm) , for final distribution. This process is also known as zone skipping

(http://multichannelmerchant.com/opsandfulfillment/advisor/zone_skipping/) , long used by Parcel

Consolidators (http://www.usps.com/shipping/consolidators.htm) .

More recently, the continued growth of online shopping, combined with increasing awareness of the role

transportation (including package delivery) has on the environment, has contributed to the rise of emerging

competition from niche carriers or rebranded incumbents. For instance, the US Postal Service claims "greener

delivery" of parcels on the assumption that USPS letter carriers deliver to each US address, six days a week

anyway, and therefore offer the industry's lowest fuel consumption per delivery. Other carriers, like

ParcelPool.com (http://www.parcelpool.com/) , which specializes in residential package delivery to APO-FPO

addresses, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and other US Territories, arose in response to increased demand from

catalog retailers and online e-tailers for low-cost residential delivery services closely matching service standards

normally associated with more expensive expedited parcel delivery.

Characteristic features

Brand mark


logo (1919-1937)


logo (1937-1961)


logo (1961–2003)


logo (2003-present)


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In April 2003, UPS unveiled a new logo, the fourth the company has used, replacing the iconic package and

shield originally designed in 1961 by Paul Rand. The original logo first saw use in 1916 when the company was

American Messenger Company. In 1935, the logo was redesigned to reflect the company's new name United

Parcel Service.[6] All four designs for the logo shared the shield theme, and UPS employees often refer to the

brand mark as "the shield."

Brown

The brown color that UPS uses on its vehicles and uniforms is called Pullman Brown. The color is also

mentioned in their advertising slogan: "What can Brown do for you?"[7] Originally founder James E. Casey

wanted the trucks to be yellow, but one of his partners, Charlie Soderstrom stated they would be impossible to

keep clean, and that Pullman railroad cars were that color for just that reason.[8]

Font

UPS commissioned brand consultancy FutureBrand to develop their own font, UPS Sans, for use in marketing

and communication material. UPS Sans was created by slightly altering certain parts of FSI FontShop

International’s font FF Dax without permission. This has resulted in an agreement between FSI FontShop

International and FutureBrand to avoid litigation. [9]

Uniforms

The UPS delivery driver uniform consists of a brown short-sleeve or long-sleeve button-up shirt or blouse with a

pointed collar, front left pocket, and the company logo above the pocket. The shirt is worn with a pair of brown

pants or shorts. When pants are worn, the shirttail is tucked in. All buttons, with the exception of the one on the

collar, are fastened. Both shirts can be worn with either the shorts or the pants. UPS socks must be worn when

shorts are worn. Drivers for UPS Express Critical are not required to wear any uniforms and can deliver in their

own clothes.

Winter attire consists of a heavy brown jacket with the UPS logo on the left breast, the trademark brown pants,

and either a UPS baseball cap or a simple brown stocking cap. UPS drivers must have a tucked-in brown or

white undershirt underneath the jacket.

A UPS driver must be clean-shaven and cannot have the bottom of their mustache below the corner of their lip.

Sideburns may not extend past the ear. Hair may not extend below the top of the collar for males.

During the initial expansion into what was then West Germany the Brown UPS Uniform was replaced with a

Green Uniform due to sensitivity over the "Brown Shirts" worn by the Nazi SA during Hitler's rise to power.

Vehicles

Package cars


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UPS package car from rearquarter. US variant, Corpus

Christi, Texas

A UPS trailer parked inDurham, North Carolina

The UPS package car (or van) is a major symbol of the U.S. business world,

with its iconic status referenced in an early-2000s ad campaign following UPS'

sponsorship of Dale Jarrett in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: the ads were

about how the company would prefer to race the truck over a stock car despite

the futility of doing so, as "people love the truck".

The classic UPS package car is built on a General Motors or Ford chassis, has a

manual transmission, manual steering, and no radio or air conditioning. The

older ones are easily recognizable due to their round headlights and turn signals

set onto a sculpted fiberglass hood. These are either Grumman Olson P-600 or

P-800 step vans (a recent redesign changed the look, replacing the round turn

signals with ovoid LED ones).

Newer package cars in North America have either a Freightliner Trucks or Navistar International chassis;

automatic transmissions and power steering are slowly appearing in package cars. UPS also operates Dodge

Sprinter box vans in rural areas as well as Dodge Grand Caravan minivans. UPS has package cars that operate

on Propane in Canada. The only issue with that is that when temperatures are below feezing 32F/0C they don't

work well. The gas won't atomize. Consequently UPS Canada has had a shortage of fleet vehicles. In 2008 and

2009, UPS Canada has been using rental vans or box trucks to help ease the vehicle shortage.

UPS has ordered Modec electric vans for its UK and German fleets. Energy costs play a huge part in the

potential profitability of package delivery companies like UPS, DHL and FedEx [10].

When package cars reach the end of their useful service life (typically 20–25 years or more), they are almost

always dismantled for spare parts; the only exception being when they are repainted white for internal use.

When using non-proprietary trucks, such as Ford Econoline vans, Dodge Caravans, or Dodge Sprinters, UPS will

often remove the vehicle badging as to not provide free advertising to the manufacturer.

Other trucks

UPS commonly refers to its tractor-trailers as "feeders". The tractors are

painted the same shade of brown as the package cars, while the

company-owned trailers are painted gray. Most tractors usually tow two

28-foot (8.5 m) trailers in tandem, or a single 53-foot (16 m) trailer. They have

three different types of feeders — Flatbed, Drop Frame and Trailer On Flat

Car (TOFC). The latter are put onto railroad cars. Tractors are usually made by

International or Mack, but a few Ford, Sterling, and Freightliner tractors are in

the fleet. Past makes in the fleet include Chevrolet, GMC, and Diamond REO.

In keeping with the "no free advertising" the same is done with the "feeder"

trucks. The make and model badges are removed from the vehicle.

UPS Airlines

From the launch of UPS Airlines in 1988 to today, UPS has had two color schemes for its aircraft fleet.

The first was introduced in 1988 and is still seen on some of their aircraft today as the new design is phased in. It

consisted of a mostly white fuselage. A brown stripe was located on the window line (or where it would have

been on its Boeing 757 and 767 freighters). The words United Parcel Service were located above the stripe on

the front half of the fuselage. On the 747 aircraft, the United Parcel Service letters were much larger and were


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located further back. A brown vertical stabilizer featured the then-current UPS shield.

Today's color scheme was introduced alongside the new brandmark design in 2003. The brown stripe was

phased out to be replaced by an arching design over the wing coming to a point on the top of the fuselage. This

brown segment was trimmed by a gold outline; this is the same color gold as on the new shield. Replacing the

company name on the fuselage is, in black: "Worldwide Services", with the words "synchronizing the world of

commerce" underneath. The redesigned logo is featured on a brown vertical stabilizer.

Bicycles

In 2008, UPS started hiring bike delivery people in Vancouver, Washington; Portland, Salem, Corvallis, Eugene,

and Medford, Oregon.[11]

Trains

UPS contracts with several railroad companies in the United States to provide intermodal transport for their

cargo.

Other codes

Trailer /Railroad reporting marks: UPGX, UPGZ, UPOZ, UPSZ, UPWZ, UPSC [12]

NMFTA SCAC Code: UPSS, UPSN, UPSC

Operating subsidiaries and alliances

ANA/UPS - All Nippon/United Parcel Deal

All Nippon Airways, a Star Alliance member, and UPS have formed a cargo alliance and code-share to transport

member cargo, similarly to an airline alliance.[13][14]

Personnel structure


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Larger UPS package vehiclescustom made by Grumman

Olson

Smaller UPS package vehicleson a Dodge Sprinter chassis

A UPS MD-11F aircraft(N276UP) taxies at HonoluluInternational Airport in Hawaii

UPS employs approximately 425,300 staff, with 358,400 in the U.S. and 67,300

internationally. Approximately 240,000 UPS drivers, package handlers and

clerks are represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The

company has had only one nationwide strike in its history, which occurred in

1997, lasting 16 days.[15]

Chief executives

1907–1962 James E. "Jim" Casey

1962–1972 George D. Smith

1972–1973 Paul Oberkotter1973–1980 Harold Oberkotter

1980–1984 George Lamb

1984–1990 John W. Rogers1990–1997 Kent C. "Oz" Nelson

1997–2001 James P. Kelly

2002–2007 Michael L. "Mike" Eskew

2008–Present Scott Davis[16]

System design

UPS' Parcel Network is based on a hub and spoke model. UPS operates centers

that feed parcels to hubs where parcels are sorted and forwarded to their

destinations. Centers typically are the point of entry for parcels and send the

parcels to one or more hubs. A hub is a location where many centers send

packages to be sorted and sent back out to other centers or hubs. For example,

a parcel being shipped from Wilmington, North Carolina to San Francisco,

California is picked up by a driver and taken to the 23rd Street center in

Wilmington, where it is loaded on a trailer and driven to Raleigh, North

Carolina. At Raleigh, the package would join packages from all over North

Carolina and be forwarded to the Chicago Area Consolidated Hub in Hodgkins,

Illinois. After arriving there, it would be loaded onto a trailer and sent by rail

(trailer on flat car in most cases) to the North Bay, California hub in San Pablo, California, where it would then

be forwarded to the delivery center, loaded onto the delivery vehicle, and transported to its final destination.

UPS' air network runs similarly to the ground network through a hub-and-spoke system, though air hubs are

typically located at airports so packages and planes can quickly be unloaded, sorted, and loaded again. Centers

feed packages to facilities at airports (called gateways), which in turn send them to an air hub to be sorted and

put on another plane to a final destination gateway, and then from there to a center. For instance, a package

traveling from Seattle, Washington to Atlanta, Georgia, would be loaded onto an air container at Boeing Field

just south of Seattle and flown to the UPS Air Hub at Chicago Rockford International Airport in Rockford,

Illinois. From there it would be sorted to a container heading to Atlanta to Hartsfield-Jackson International

Airport, and taken by truck from the airport to the delivery center.

Fees for Canadians

The normal procedure for residential customers in Canada to import goods from the U.S. by mail is relatively

simple; they are required to pay 5% GST on the item, plus a $5 CAN handling fee collected by the Canada

Border Services Agency (CBSA) on behalf of Canada Post. This applies for mailed items greater than $20 CAN


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UPS Package Car.

and gifts less than $60 CAN in value[17]. However, this does not apply to items shipped by couriers such as

UPS.

When delivering packages in Canada, UPS brokers or clears the item through the CBSA and transfers a cost to

the buyer.[18] These fees are not disclosed at the time of purchase by the seller as many sellers from the U.S. are

themselves unaware of this.[19][20][21][22][23][24][25]

As a result, there have been two class-action lawsuits filed against UPS by Canadians. The first one filed in

October, 2006 by Robert Macfarlane, a resident of British Columbia[26] alleges that the UPS brokerage is "so

harsh and adverse as to constitute an unconscionable practice."[27]

The second filed by Ryan Wright and Julia Zislin in Ontario claims "that UPS failed to obtain consumers’

consent to act as a customs broker; to disclose the existence and/or amount of the brokerage fee; and to provide

consumers with the opportunity or disclose to them how to arrange for customs clearance by themselves."[28]

It is possible for the recipient to avoid these brokerage fees if the parcel is being shipped by a UPS "express"

(premium) service[18], that is, another service other than UPS Standard (Ground). Fees may also be avoided if

the recipient clears the parcel themselves at a CBSA office.[29]

This distinction is not limited to Canada, or to UPS. As a rule, "mail" import procedures in all countries apply

only to items imported by mail, i.e., originated by the exporter's local postal authority (for Canadians,

commonly USPS) for delivery by the importer's local postal authority (Canada Post); they do not apply to

shipments made by courier services such as UPS, FedEx, or DHL. For example, this distinction is specifically

noted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in its website's page on Internet purchases imported into

the United States; it also warns that imports by courier may come with "higher than...expected" brokerage fees

that "sometimes exceed the cost of (the) purchase", and that prepaid shipping charges on imports by courier

normally do not include duties or brokerage fees.[30] (The distinction may be sharper in the U.S. because CBP

normally waives duties on mail imports of up to US$200 per day, but not on courier imports of any amount. Use

tax, the U.S. equivalent of GST, is collected only by the states, not by CBP or shippers.) What makes this case

unique is that UPS charges a substantial brokerage fee on ground shipments to Canada, when other Canadian

small-package services apparently charge nothing (UPS "express" services) or a minimal fee (Canada Post).

Fuel economy

In 2004 UPS announced that they would save fuel by minimizing left turns.

Because drivers are idle at intersections while waiting to make left turns, UPS

developed software that routes the day's packages with preference to right

turns. Since UPS operates a fleet of over 88,000 ground vehicles, the fuel

savings are considerable. In 2005, UPS eliminated 464,000 miles (747,000 km)

from its travel and saved 51,000 US gallons (190,000 l) of fuel within

Washington D.C. alone.[31]

See also: Travelling salesman problem

UPS is also utilizing hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) for local deliveries only. As of May 22, 2007 the company

has 50 deployed in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, and Phoenix. The 50 HEVs are expected to cut fuel consumption

by 44,000 US gallons (170,000 l) per year.[32]


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Environmental record

UPS has 94,500 vehicles in operation.[33] In May 2008 UPS placed an order for 200 hybrid electric vehicles

(adding to the 50 it has currently) and 300 compressed natural gas (which are 20% more fuel efficient, and add

to the 800 it already has) vehicles with from Daimler Trucks North America.[34][35][36]

UPS received a "starting" rating of 39 points out of 100 totals on the environmental scorecard by the Climate

Counts Group for their efforts to lessen the company's impact on the environment. [37] UPS has also been

awarded the Clean Air Excellence Award by the United States Environmental Protection Agency because of the

alternative fuel program they have developed. [38]

In October, 2009, UPS became the first small package carrier to offer customers the chance to buy carbon

offsets to neutralize the greenhouse gas emissions generated by the transport of their packages. Although

initially only available on UPS.com and to high-volume shippers, UPS hopes to roll out UPS carbon neutral to

more customer groups in 2010.[39]

UPS Facts & Statistics

Package Operations 2007 Revenue: $41.3 billion

2007 Delivery Volume: 4.0 billion packages and documents

Daily Delivery Volume: 15.8 million packages and documentsDaily U.S. Air Volume: 2.3 million packages and documents

Daily International Volume: 1.9 million packages and documents

Service Area: 200+ countries and territories; every address in North America and EuropeCustomers: 7.9 million daily (1.8 million pick-ups, 6.1 million delivery)

UPS.com: Average 18.5 million daily on-line tracking requests

Retail Access: The UPS Store, 4,647; Mail Boxes Etc., 1,306; UPS Customer Centers, 1,000; Authorizedoutlets, 17,000; UPS Drop Boxes, 40,000

Operating Facilities: 1,801

Delivery Fleet: 93,637 package cars, vans, tractors, motorcyclesUPS Jet Aircraft Fleet: 268; 8th largest airline in the world

Chartered Aircraft: 311

Daily Flight Segments: Domestic - 1,130; International - 796Airports Served: Domestic - 424; International - 389

Air Hubs: United States: Louisville, Ky. (Main US Air Hub); Philadelphia, Pa.; Dallas, Texas; Ontario,

Calif.; Rockford, Ill.; Columbia, S.C.; Hartford, Conn. In Europe: Cologne/Bonn, Germany. In AsiaPacific: Taipei, Taiwan; Pampanga, Philippines; Hong Kong; Singapore. In Latin America and Caribbean:

Miami, Fla., USA. In Canada: Hamilton, Ontario.

Supply Chain and Freight 2007 Revenue: $8.4 billion

Facilities: 1,033 facilities in more than 120 countries; 38,000,000 sq ft (3,500,000 m2).

UPS Freight Key services: Leading provider of less-than-truckload services coast-to-coast.

Delivery fleet: 6,353 tractors; 21,818 trailersFacilities: 215+ service centers

UPS has now added authorized third party resellers to focus on small to mid-size businesses (i.e.

Unishippers)

See also


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Big Brown - 2008 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner; named after the companyFreight company

Freight payment service

List of United Parcel Service hubsMaxiCode — A UPS developed and utilized square barcode-like symbol that appears on their package

label

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Further reading

"Insourcing," Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, NewYork: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, updated and expanded, 2006, pp. 167–176.

"Big Brown: The Untold Story of UPS" Niemann, Greg (http://www.gregniemann.com/) . John Wiley &

Sons, 2007."Driving Change: The UPS Approach to Business" Brewster, Mike and Frederick Dalzell

(http://www.amazon.com/Driving-Change-UPS-Approach-Business/dp/1401302882) . New York:

Hyperion, 2007.

External links

Canadian Business Journal - (November 2008) UPS Profile [1] (http://www.canadianbusinessjournal.ca)

UPS corporate website, shipping, tracking, service information (http://www.ups.com/)

Portal del Transporte de la Sección Sindical de UGT en Seur GeoPost + UPS transportes(http://www.ugtsiut.org)

Yahoo! — United Parcel Service, Inc. Company Profile (http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/40/40483.html)

Ask Yahoo!: Who manufactures the brown UPS trucks? (http://ask.yahoo.com/20050913.html)U.S. Mail holidays - UPS holidays - FedEx holidays - Internet Accuracy Project

(http://www.accuracyproject.org/shippingholidays.html)

UPS’s New Hydraulic Hybrid Available For Test Ride In NYC (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/06


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