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Investors are always looking for stocks that are poised to beat at earnings season and United Parcel Service, Inc. UPS may be one such company. The firm has earnings coming up pretty soon, and events are shaping up quite nicely for their report.

That is because United Parcel Service is seeing favorable earnings estimate revision activity as of late, which is generally a precursor to an earnings beat. After all, analysts raising estimates right before earnings — with the most up-to-date information possible — is a pretty good indicator of some favorable trends underneath the surface for FBHS in this report.

Following congressional passage of the “vape mail” ban that will end U.S. Postal Service shipping of vaping products to consumers, UPS has joined Fedex in announcing it too will end shipping of vapes. The ban covers shipping to both consumers and businesses.

“Effective April 5, 2021, UPS will not transport vaping products to, from, or within the United States due to the increased complexity to ship those products,” a company spokesperson told Vaping360 by email. The policy, which will soon leave no major shipping service willing to deliver vaping products to homes, has left online vaping retailers scrambling to find a solution.

The announcement followed days of uncertainty, with some vaping businesses being told that their accounts would be closed, and others being reassured that the company’s tobacco and vapor product policy would not change. (The UPS website has still not amended the policy.)

Last-mile delivery and the electric vehicles it will take to fuel it will require a jump start from public money that should be included in the next infrastructure package, according to parcel delivery giant UPS (NYSE: UPS).

Speaking on a panel hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, Thomas Jensen, the company’s senior government relations executive, pointed out that while electrification has been touted extensively by the Biden administration, there have been few details on how the administration plans to pay for it.

However, Jensen said, “without question, the federal government is going to have to lead, and they’re going to have to lead as it relates to incentives and grants to encourage” electric vehicle infrastructure, he said.

It’s Day 1 at UPS, and Rhonda Clark doesn’t see anyone who looks like her.

It’s 1989, and Clark is the only woman and the only minority on the plant engineering team at a United Parcel Service hub in Knoxville.

She felt out of place, and at times, lonely.

It’s a sentiment she recounts in a new book, “Black Voices from Big Brown, Untold stories of Black employees at UPS.”

For 9-year-old Jace Rohlf of Ohio, spotting the familiar brown UPS truck on his street is the highlight of his day.

Jace has Angelman syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes delayed development and problems with balance, speech, and intellect. While he is nonverbal, he doesn’t need words to express his delight when he sees his favorite delivery drivers!

Brandy Rohlf, his mom, said her youngest son sits by the window and waits for the drivers to go by every day.

Just knowing they’re out there makes Jace happy, but on Christmas Eve, these two kind drivers went the extra mile to bring his family some joy.