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UPS Adds More Than 12,000 Zip Codes To Earliest Delivery Service

  • Service expands; changes name to UPS Next Day Air® Early
  • Healthcare, Manufacturing, Small Business and Professional Service firms already use the service

UPS has expanded UPS Next Day Air® Early, its earliest small-package delivery service, by another 12,680 ZIP codes to create an earlier guaranteed-delivery option for customers in locations that previously had only end-of-day guarantees. The UPS Next Day Air Early service now reaches 94% of ZIP codes and 98% of businesses in the U.S. with the expansion.

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Book by UPS driver who rose to president of the company offers leadership advice – Atlanta Business Chronicle

A new book by Ron Wallace, the former president of United Parcel Service Inc.’s (NYSE: UPS) international package operations, offers career advice and stories about people he worked with along the way.

Wallace was a delivery driver for six years in rural Idaho and rose through the ranks to become president of the company.

Wallace’s new book – Leadership Lessons from a UPS Driver: Delivering a Culture of We, Not Me (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) – “pulls back the curtain on never-before-revealed principles into UPS successes spanning a century,” according to press material about the book.

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UPS Invests $100 Million In Compressed Natural Gas, CNG Vehicles And Related Infrastructure

Helping to Create and Support Nationwide Natural Gas Market

UPS (NYSE:UPS) announced plans to build an additional 12 compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations and add 380 new CNG tractors to its growing alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet. The CNG fueling stations and vehicle purchases totaling $100 million are part of UPS’s ongoing commitment to diversify its fuel sources and reduce its environmental impact.

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UPS CFO: We support free trade agreements – CNBC

Richard Peretz, CFO of UPS, discusses the international considerations of doing business in the light of the current political rhetoric on trade,

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Big UPS customer Amazon leases its own fleet of 767 cargo jets – Atlanta Business Chronicle

One of Atlanta-based United Parcel Service Inc.’s big retail customers – Amazon.com Inc. – will lease its own fleet of 767 cargo jets to move merchandise.

There has been a lot of talk that Amazon might set up its own delivery service that would compete with UPS and FedEx.

Amazon says the new lease deal will compliment the company’s existing delivery network and ensure air cargo capacity to support one and two-day delivery for customers. Company officials also say the move is meant to reduce shipping costs.