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UPS Press Release

UPS Triples International Destinations For U.S. Businesses With Expansion Of Saturday Export Pick-Up Service

  • Newly expanded service expands from 57 to 179 countries worldwide
  • With 95 percent of consumers located outside the U.S., businesses can now add an extra pick-up day to their week for growth markets in Asia, Europe, the Americas, Middle East & Africa

UPS (NYSE: UPS) is significantly expanding the destination countries that are available to its U.S. customers using the company’s Saturday pick-up solution for export shipments. An additional 122 countries located in all regions of the world have been added to the current 57 destinations, including 20 new markets in Europe, 28 in the Americas, 2 in Asia Pacific and 72 in the Middle East and Africa. Businesses that schedule a Saturday pick-up for their UPS Worldwide Express portfolio packages from the U.S. to 179 international markets will have their shipments processed and shipped on Sunday and delivered as soon as Monday.

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Four Injured In UPS Explosion File Lawsuit – LEX18

Four people injured in an explosion at UPS Freight in Lexington have filed suit against the company who shipped the acetylene tanks that are being blamed for the incident.
 
The explosion happened in May of last year when a torch ignited acetylene gas that was apparently leaking from a tank on the back of a UPS truck. Witnesses in the building heard a large blast and saw debris flying from the building. Part of the roof was damaged.
 
Forty-five cylinders were eventually counted on board the truck and were being shipped by a company called Praxair.
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How times have changed on the road – Fleet Owner

With driver turnover remaining steady and high, Jimmy Howard is an anachronism. He drove for over 43 years, all of it at one company: UPS. He logged over 6 million accident-free miles and just retired at age 66. We talked with Howard about why he stayed with UPS for his entire career, how the industry has changed, and what advice he has for other drivers especially those starting their careers.

Fleet Owner: Where did your driving career begin?

Howard: I joined UPS when I was 22 years old in 1975. I started in the package cars; that’s the brown delivery trucks. You had to have at least a year of safe driving with them and then you signed what they called a “feeder list” to drive a larger truck.

UPS is a little bit different; they don’t call them tractor trailers, they call them feeder units, but they’re tractor trailers. I signed the list but I had absolutely no experience in driving that kind of truck. The company trained me. I went through an extensive training course and received my Class A license. It wasn’t called a CDL back then. You passed that and a management person rode with you for about two weeks, and then they turned you loose on your own.

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UPS Press Release

UPS Holds Shareowners’ Meeting, Elects Board Members

Shareowners of UPS (NYSE: UPS) today elected a Board of Directors for a one-year term and ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the company’s independent registered public accountants. Twelve directors stood for election to the Board, and all were elected.

In other matters, UPS shareowners voted to reject a proposal to prepare an annual report on lobbying activities and a proposal to reduce the voting power of class A stock from 10 votes per share to one vote per share. Shareowners also rejected a proposal to prepare a report to assess the integration of sustainability metrics into executive compensation.

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UPS vs. FedEx: What’s the Difference? – Investopedia

UPS vs. FedEx: An Overview

United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) and FedEx Corp. (FDX) are two leading delivery services companies and main competitors to each other, at least in the public eye. However, to those following them closely, the two companies are quite

While UPS is widely known for its domestic ground package delivery, FedEx is mostly recognized for its global air express freight. The two companies also differ in terms of their approaches to serving customers, how they have fared in the e-commerce environment, and the different business structures unique to each company.

Package delivery and express service are where the two companies have made names for themselves. Although each company has other delivery services that make everything they do seemingly overlap.