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UPS eFulfillment Program Launches To Help Sellers Worldwide Easily Manage Multiple Marketplaces

  • Program includes technology platform and physical fulfillment services
  • Small- and medium-sized businesses can quickly and easily manage sales across multiple marketplaces and customize delivery times
  • Using a single login, sellers can manage sales on 21 marketplaces and web stores, including eBay, Etsy and Amazon Prime
  • Solution handles storage, order processing, packaging and shipping
  • Risk-free 60-day trial
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EPA Awards Alt-Fuel Funding for Southeast UPS Fleets – NGT News

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded a Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program grant totaling $716,115 to the American Lung Association to reduce diesel emissions in fleets of United Parcel Service (UPS) vehicles.
The funding goes toward UPS vehicles operating in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
The grant will be used specifically to replace 24 short-haul Class 8A vehicles owned and operated by UPS. The vehicles will be replaced with newer cleaner-diesel vehicles, newer compressed natural gas vehicles or newer liquefied natural gas vehicles. This investment will collectively cut air emissions of nitrogen oxide, PM2.5, hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide, says the EPA.
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FedEx Partners With Walmart, Pizza Hut to Test Last-Mile Delivery Robot – Reuters

FedEx Corp this summer plans to begin testing a robot to handle home deliveries for partners ranging from Walmart Inc to Pizza Hut.

Shippers, retailers and restaurants are experimenting with robots, drones and self-driving cars in a bid to use automation to drive down the high cost of delivering gadgets, groceries and even cups of coffee the “last mile” to consumer doorsteps.

FedEx is teaming up with DEKA Development & Research Corp, whose founder Dean Kamen invented the Segway stand-up scooter and iBot stair-climbing wheelchair, for its project. The delivery company said the robots could become part of its SameDay service that operates in 1,900 cities around the world.

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UPS’s Safest Drivers Log Enough Accident-Free Miles For 200 Round Trips To Mars

UPS Circle of Honor Drivers Log 14 Billion Miles Without an Accident

1,436 drivers inducted this year; Circle of Honor Now Includes 10,364

  • Michigan’s Tom Camp Continues His Record-Setting Ways With 56 Years Crash-Free
  • More than 700 drivers accident-free for 35 years or more

14 billion miles. Zero Accidents.

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UPS to donate $5 million to U of L Athletics for academics, leadership training – WDRB

UPS is making a $5 million donation to University of Louisville Athletics.

Athletic Director Vince Tyra made the announcement on Friday along with representatives from United Parcel Service and Louisville’s Global Air Hub.

The gift will be paid to Cardinal Athletics over the next 13 years. The money will be used to boost academics for student-athletes by establishing the UPS Leadership Academy. The focus will be on sophomore athletes and teaching them to develop a leadership style on the team, in the classroom and in the community.