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PRC Hosts Technical Conference to Consider UPS Petition on Proposed Changes to USPS Costing Models – What They Think

The Postal Regulatory Commission will host a technical conference to consider a United Parcel Service (UPS) petition to change how the Postal Service determines incremental costs and how it accounts for peak-season costs in its periodic reports.

WHAT: The Commission has scheduled a Video Technical Conference to assist in its review of the petition.

WHO: UPS and the Postal Service will present material addressing current costing methodologies and potential improvements.

WHEN: September 29 at 11:00 a.m.

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UPS Rides on Increase in Home Deliveries & Strong Liquidity – NASDAQ

We recently issued an updated report on United Parcel Service, Inc. UPS.

The company is being aided by a significant increase in home deliveries amid the prevalent coronavirus pandemic. Notably, the need for door-to-door delivery of essentials during this crisis is increasing. Also, UPS Airlines, one of the largest cargo carriers across the globe, is aided by the increase in e-commerce sales amid the plaguing pandemic. UPS Airlines expanded its fleet by adding MD-11 and Boeing 747-8 freighter jets. With many passenger airlines (usually carrying freight as well as passenger luggage) currently shrinking their fleets due to tepid air-travel demand, cargo carriers like UPS Airlines are flying a lot of packages.

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Jim Krumel: You work hard, but how long will your job be around? – Lima Ohio

Big Brown pulled down our street the other day. That’s what we call the UPS truck.

It’s a common sight. If it is not delivering a package to our house, then one is being unloaded to a neighbor.

You could say our neighborhood tries its best to keep the economy stimulated.

As Big Brown made its daily appearance last Monday, I couldn’t help but think if there’s one job this Labor Day that is safe from vanishing in the future, it belongs to delivery drivers. So many people are now comfortable buying so many things on the Internet that those driver’s must have a job for life. Then I went to work and a story that moved on the Associated Press wire changed my mind. It reported the Federal Aviation Administration granted Amazon approval to deliver packages by drones. It joins UPS and a company owned by search giant Google that are allowed to do so.

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Is UPS Delivery Open on Labor Day 2020? Are Services Running? – Heavy

Happy Labor Day weekend! Labor Day is a federal holiday to celebrate workers, typically held on the first Monday of September. In honor of the holiday, most workers have the day off. So if you are waiting for a package, you might have to wait just a bit longer. According to UPS’ 2020 U.S. UPS Holiday Operations Schedule, UPS is not delivering on Labor Day, Monday, September 7, 2020 in observance of Labor Day. However, if your package was ordered through the UPS Service UPS Express Critical, your package can still be delivered.

Here’s what you need to know:

UPS Packages Are Still Being Delivered Through UPS Express Critical, But Most Delivery Services Are Unavailable

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UPS testing of telematics tools draws ire of union dissident group – Freight Waves

Teamsters for a Democratic Union warns of driver harassment issues

UPS Inc. said it is testing advanced technology that it claims will enhance driver and public safety, to the chagrin of a Teamsters union dissident group that warns the company could be continuing a decades-long pattern of leveraging technology to harass its drivers.

The Atlanta-based company has installed the “Lytx Drivecam” in its familiar brown vans at four centers in Texas and Oklahoma. It is the first step in a plan to install the technology nationwide, according to the Teamsters For a Democratic Union (TDU), a group at constant war with mainstream Teamster leadership and deeply suspicious of UPS’ labor-related initiatives.

UPS, which is the largest Teamster employer with about 252,000 members, would not comment on whether a nationwide rollout is planned.