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UPS said its goal is to ensure businesses and customers are able to meet their shipping needs while demand has increased for shipping services.

Atlanta-based global freight transportation and logistics services provider UPS said earlier this week that it has rolled out updated 2021 Peak Surcharges.

“UPS continues to provide essential service amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak to support the needs of our customers,” UPS said in a statement. “Our goal is to ensure businesses and customers are able to meet their shipping needs while demand has increased for shipping services.”

The company added that peak surcharges are subject to change, adding that peak periods may be extended or otherwise changed, telling shippers to continue to refer to ups.com/peaksurcharge for updates prior to tendering shipments.

The evolution of cold chain technology and its use by UPS Healthcare

Cold chain technology in the logistics world has been around for decades, transforming from simpler times of packing food in ice during transport, to today’s complex movement of life-saving vaccines at ultra-cold temperatures. Although advancements in technology have made it easier to ship temperature-controlled products around the world, the basic concept has stayed the same: keep goods at the right temperatures to ensure efficacy and safety for the end customer.

UPS Healthcare has leveraged cutting edge cold chain tools and technology since 2000, helping to keep healthcare packages at the right temperatures during transport. The company continued investments throughout the years, moving toward the recent global delivery of COVID-19 vaccines with near-perfect service. Its continued success is creating long-term value for the future delivery of new drugs, especially biologics and temperature-controlled therapies, which make up more than half of all new drugs in the pipeline.

An 18-year-old boy dealing with life threatening epilepsy spent a day at a UPS sorting facility.

His parents say that was the best day of his life, all thanks to a UPS Driver who befriended him.

Caleb Lambert is dealing with learning disabilities and more importantly, life-threatening epileptic seizures.

“Some of them affect his breathing, which becomes life-threatening for him, stops breathing during his seizures and we do have rescue medications,” said Nichole Lambert, Caleb’s mother.

Caleb‘s challenges have not prevented him pursuing his interests: Puzzles, bikes and UPS. That’s right, the United Parcel Service.

Big Brown will have to play catch-up if it wants to compete on the next frontier of logistics.

UPS shareholders may be thinking, “Well, it’s about time.” The shipping giant is considering offering a same-day delivery option, though whether it would be an in-house operation or run via a third-party partnership is still undecided.

Considering that same-day delivery has become an essential service for retailers looking to meet consumer demand for near-instant gratification on purchases, it’s almost scandalous that UPS hasn’t launched it already.

The reggaeton star is releasing “Juntos Imparables” as part of UPS’s Proudly Unstoppable campaign in support of Latinx-owned small businesses

J Balvin isn’t the star of his latest video; barbers, gift shop owners, florists, and street vendors are. In a content partnership with UPS — yes, the mail service, which funded, filmed, and branded the video — the Medellín-born star is highlighting the entrepreneurial spirit of his roots.

“The Latino community are beautiful, diverse, and hardworking people,” Balvin tells Rolling Stone, discussing the inspiration for the commissioned song, “Juntos Imparables,” and its video. “So many small businesses were devastated last year and I wanted to play a role in helping support the enterprising people who were affected by the pandemic.”

Issues related to Covid-19 disproportionately affected the Latinx community, according to UPS representatives, with 32 percent of the nation’s Latinx-owned small businesses closing during the first month of the pandemic. Since UPS works with many small businesses, the company said it wanted to call attention to problems faced by a variety of minority owners, including members of the black and LGBTQ+ communities. In this latest offshoot of what UPS calls its “Proudly Unstoppable” campaign, the company devised a video-based marketing plan to promote Latinx business owners, roping in the celebrity widely referred to as “the prince of reggaeton,” as well as TikTok, the epicenter of youth culture.