Category: UPS News

United Parcel Service expects most retailers to agree to higher shipping prices during the weeks leading up to Christmas, which it says are necessary because of the glut of online orders.

UPS last month revealed the extra peak-season fee, which will affect packages shipped in the two weeks around Thanksgiving and in the week before Christmas. Discussions with retailers about the charges and their holiday-season forecasts are continuing, but UPS said it expects most shippers will have to pay them.

UPS is encouraging retailers to avoid shipping during those peak-season weeks by holding promotions earlier in November, offering incentives to shoppers to accept later deliveries or other tactics.

Republican U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to renegotiate or scrap longstanding global trade deals are not protectionist and are more focused on winning better terms for American businesses, the top executive of United Parcel Service said on Thursday.

“I have to tell you, we don’t consider what we are hearing from the president as protectionist,” Chief Executive Officer David Abney told Reuters in a phone interview after the world’s largest package delivery company reported a higher-than-expected second-quarter net profit.

“Protectionist would be ‘we don’t want trade agreements’ and just try to protect the U.S. in that regard,” he added. “It’s much more about having more favorable terms than it is about protectionism.”

Part-time workers to be trained by Nov. 1.

United Parcel Service said it is hiring about 1,600 new part-time positions across four shifts between the Jacksonville hub being expanded in Westside Industrial Park and a relief hub at Westlake Industrial Park.

UPS said it is hiring through October with a goal to have the positions filled and trained by Nov. 1. The jobs are package sorting.

Candidates can start the application process at upsjobs.com.

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United Parcel Service Inc. will report second-quarter earnings on Thursday before the market opens, and analysts will be focused on whether the company’s big spending plans are paying off as it seeks to capitalize on the growth in e-commerce.

As the primary shipping partner of Amazon UPS  benefits from rising package volumes, but has been losing money on more costly deliveries to consumers’ homes.

“The last mile is outrageously expensive,” Logan Purk, an Edward Jones analyst, told MarketWatch, because individual consumer deliveries are smaller, less densely-concentrated, and often less accessible than deliveries to businesses.

UPS is “a technology company with trucks,” according to Matt Capozzoli, vice president of flight operations for UPS Airlines.

Capozzoli spoke yesterday during the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce’s annual Business Summit, which took place at the Galt House.

During the appearance, Capozzoli discussed three technologies the company is using.