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UPS To Hire About 100,000 For Holiday Season

  • Flexible shifts, full- and part-time positions available at thousands of locations
  • Over a third of seasonal hires land permanent jobs after the holidays

UPS (NYSE: UPS) announced that it expects to hire about 100,000 seasonal employees to support the anticipated increase in package volume that will begin in November and continue through January 2019.

“Every year, we deliver the holidays for millions of customers,” said Jim Barber, chief operating officer. “In order to make that happen, we also deliver thousands of great seasonal jobs at our facilities across the country.”

The full- and part-time seasonal positions – primarily package handlers, drivers and driver-helpers – have long been an entry point for permanent employment at UPS. Many senior UPS executives, including Chief Executive Officer David Abney and other members of the company’s senior leadership team, started their UPS careers as part-time employees.

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UPS Plans to Hire 100,000 Temporary Workers for the Holiday Season – The Street

Bring on the holiday season.

United Parcel Service Inc. plans to bring on 100,000 workers during the peak holiday season, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer Scott Price told TheStreet in an interview.

The Atlanta-based company will use technology, specifically automated recruiting capabilities, to hire those workers, according to Price.

“We will put on more capacity this year than we ever have put on before,” Price said. “That capacity will help us in some of the geo areas where there was a disproportionate growth.”

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North Texas UPS driver loved by customers and their dogs – Fox4

Some people in North Texas anxiously wait for a delivery driver to come to their neighborhood. And it’s not just for the packages she’s carrying.

Gina Cribbs is loved by hundreds of customers and their dogs. She isn’t an average UPS driver. She’s more of a dog whisperer. And for some of her customers, she’s part of the family.

She’s created a special bond with two bull mastiffs, Divya and Diesel, along with their owner Christy Howard.

“It’s the highlight of their day. They’re older, they don’t get to go many places now because it’s harder on them. So when they see the big brown truck now, it’s like Christmas,” Howard said.

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How UPS Plans to Turn Around Tumbling Stock Price – Bloomberg

Richard Peretz. United Parcel Service Inc. chief financial officer, discusses the company’s strategy and growth prospects with Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Scarlet Fu on “Bloomberg Markets: The Close.”

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UPS plan to boost business shipping falls short with investors – Reuters

United Parcel Service Inc (UPS.N) is doubling down on shipments between businesses as part of a $20 billion overhaul aimed at automating its facilities and offsetting the profit squeeze from lower-profit home deliveries from large retailers like Amazon.com.

The world’s biggest package delivery firm’s embrace of expensive “last-mile” home shipments of everything from clothes to car tires has squeezed margins as it competes with rival shipper FedEx Corp (FDX.N), which accepts less of that business.

UPS shares fell 2.9 percent to $119.69 on Thursday, after executives boosted long-term earnings targets while maintaining cost-reduction goals and stopping short of saying they would take fewer home deliveries.