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This Holiday Crunch Starts Early With More Packages Than Means to Deliver Them – Market Screener

One holiday item that is already sold out: shipping capacity.

Both FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service Inc. have told some of their largest shippers that most of their capacity is already spoken for, and that any extra trailers with holiday orders will have to wait to be picked up, according to shipping consultants and retailers.

“There will be days within the holiday season where the industry will be over capacity,” FedEx Chief Marketing Officer Brie Carere said in an interview.

The outlook has sent retailers on the hunt for alternatives with little luck. Smaller carriers in the U.S. like LaserShip Inc. and DHL eCommerce Solutions said they booked up their capacity for the holidays months earlier than usual and aren’t taking new customers until next year.

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UPS Driver Has The Sweetest Relationship With All The Pups On His Route – The Dodo

For as long as he can remember, Scott Hodges has loved pit bulls. He used to have a pittie of his own, Sheba, but after 15 years she passed away in 2004.

Luckily, Hodges has been a UPS driver for the past 32 years, and gets to see pit bulls every single day as he goes along his route. He sees lots of animals on the job, including a very friendly pig, but he’s always had a particular soft spot for the pit bulls. He’s gotten to know them all over the years — and they love him just as much as he loves them.

“I know most, but not all, of the pitties by name,” Hodges told The Dodo.

Every day, as Hodges does his UPS route, he stops to say hi to his pit bull friends (and all the other dogs, too). They know who he is by now and are always waiting for him, because they know Hodges can always be counted on to give them love and treats.

 

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Science exhibit doubles as recruiting tool as UPS looks for future employees – Wave3

In what is historically a tight labor market, UPS is demonstrating how it is never too soon to start recruiting new employees.

The new One World by Air Cargo exhibit is an interactive UPS experience, complete with a flight simulator for young visitors to the Kentucky Science Center.

UPS hopes the connections will lead to future employees.

“This is the age when your imagination is sparked,” UPS Public Relations Manager Jim Mayer said. “And so I want that 8-year-old to fly the simulator, take a look at that airplane and say, ‘I want to fly that airplane someday and I want to fly for UPS.’”

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Kentucky Science Center opens permanent UPS exhibit – WHAS11

The new exhibit will give guests an inside look at UPS’s newest aircraft with interactive displays that include a flight simulator and decision-making scenarios.

The Kentucky Science Center is opening a new permanent exhibit called One World by Air Cargo.

The new exhibit will give guests an inside look at UPS’s newest aircraft with interactive displays that include a flight simulator and decision-making scenarios. There’s also an opportunity to learn to load boxes into a real UPS air container.

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Shipping giant UPS deployed a large investment in logistics networks in Vietnam – Viet Reader

The UPS Supply Chain Solutions (SCS) division said that it would invest more in the Vietnamese market with the transition to a fully owned UPS model, creating new jobs in HCMC and Hai Phong.

Shipping giant UPS deployed a large investment in logistics networks in Vietnam.

President of UPS’s global logistics, logistics and distribution division in Asia-Pacific, Mr. Sebastian Chan said, in the context of the global pandemic continuing to develop complicatedly, many companies have chosen cut down the costs. However, UPS has chosen to operate in a different direction in the Vietnamese market: focusing on investment in smart logistics networks.

Accordingly, thanks to the wave of FDI shifting to Vietnam, which has increased the number of production orders for export, many carriers have invested more supply chain solutions to take advantage of this trade opportunity.