Category: UPS Press Release

The UPS Store today officially announced the company’s first-ever float in the 2017 Tournament of Roses® Parade. The float, “Books Bring Us Together”, brings to life the Toys for Tots Literacy Program, highlighting the importance of childhood literacy on a national stage. The float complements the 2017 Rose Parade® “Echoes of Success” theme as literacy is an essential ingredient to every child’s success.

The Toys for Tots® Literacy Program, developed by The UPS Store and the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation in 2008, provides books and educational resources to economically disadvantaged children in communities across the country. The program aims to enhance children’s ability to read and communicate effectively by igniting their imaginations through stories and tales.

• UPS to deliver 1.3 million returns packages to retailers in a single day
  
• More than 5.8 million returns packages shipped by UPS in one week
  
• Retailers responding to consumer demand with improved customer experience
  
• Reverse logistics increasingly important to recovering $260 Billion in lost sales

• UPS enhances retail solutions portfolio by investing in Optoro.
• More than 1.3 Million packages to be returned with UPS on National Returns Day.

UPS (NYSE:UPS) has formed a strategic alliance with Optoro, providing a one-stop shop solution for retailers and manufacturers to optimize the transportation and disposition of returns and excess inventory. The companies’ joint reverse logistics solutions combine UPS’s operational and logistics expertise with Optoro’s software platform that maximizes recovery value and reduces environmental waste.

eBike To Help Solve Ever-Evolving Demands of Urban Logistics  

UPS (NYSE: UPS) today announced its first eBike in the U.S. This new electrically-assisted tricycle began delivering packages in  Portland, Ore., on November 21. UPS anticipates this eBike prototype could become a component of its delivery capabilities in some other cities across the country. The deployment of the eBike is part of UPS’s ongoing commitment to reduce carbon emissions as city populations and e-commerce grow, and traffic, noise and air quality challenges continue to rise.

UPS Named A 2017 Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality

UPS (NYSE:UPS) has earned a perfect score of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Corporate Equality Index, an annual survey that rates U.S. corporations on their non-discrimination policies and practices toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employees and consumers.

UPS is the only company in the Mail and Freight Delivery category to achieve a perfect score and is recognized as a Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality.