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The UPS Store and Toys For Tots Share The Joy of Reading this Holiday Season

Vote for Your Favorite Scholastic Classic and The UPS Store will send that same title to Toys for Tots for a less fortunate child.

Today The UPS Store® launches Vote for Your Favorite Scholastic Classic, aimed to raise literacy awareness and support for the Toys for Tots Literacy Program, an effort dedicated to providing our nation’s most economically disadvantaged children the ability to compete academically and succeed in life.
Through Dec. 15, people can visit the Toys for Tots Facebook page to vote for their favorite of six classic childhood titles from Scholastic – The Secret Garden, Make Way for Ducklings, Charlotte’s Web, Stone Soup, The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Three Little Pigs. For every vote, The UPS Store will purchase that same book for a child in need, up to $10,000 worth of books.

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Flying Polar Bears: Inside UPS’s Billion-Dollar Hub – Bloomberg

It’s the busiest season of the year for UPS, the world’s biggest package shipping company, and its Worldport hub. That’s where a virtual army of workers is helping to sort packages and load them onto to jets that deliver to 200 countries.

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Forget Drones: This Is the Future of Delivery – Bloomberg

Ten years in the making, a UPS system called Orion crunches data so that drivers can save a fraction of a mile. It’s expected to save the world’s biggest package delivery company millions of dollars a year in gas. Bloomberg goes inside the making of the mathematical model that explores the physics of the driving route.

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UPS Applauds Landmark WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement

Trade package will decrease red tape; promote more efficient supply chains

UPS®, a global logistics provider and leading advocate for global trade, welcomes today’s news of an agreement struck at the World Trade Organization to facilitate global commerce and support growth in developing countries. After years of debate and compromise, the World Trade Organization (WTO) successfully delivered a trade package at the WTO’s 9th Ministerial Conference, reconfirming the organization’s ability to serve as a forum for negotiation of global trade rules.

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UPS facility fire damages packages on Long Island – ABC Local

A chemical fire inside a UPS facility in Uniondale forced the evacuation of workers and damaged some packages.

The flash fire broke out in an awning of the Oak Street facility just after 6:45 Firday morning.