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- United Parcel Service, Inc.
(NYSE: UPS), commonly referred to as UPS, is the world's largest package
delivery company, delivering more than 15 million packages a day to 6.1
million customers in more than 200 countries and territories around the
world.
Since
2005, its operations include logistics and other transportation-related
areas. It has been headquartered in Sandy Springs, Georgia, USA since 1991;
headquarters had previously been located in New York City from 1930 until
1975 when it moved to Greenwich, Connecticut.
UPS is well known for its brown trucks, internally known as package
cars (hence the company nickname "The Big Brown Machine"). UPS also operates
its own airline (IATA: 5X, ICAO: UPS, and Callsign: UPS ) based in
Louisville, Kentucky.
UPS also owns The UPS Store (formerly Mail Boxes Etc.), a franchise chain
which provides shipping, packaging, and copy services.
Major domestic (United States) competitors include United States Postal
Service (USPS), FedEx and DHL. In addition to these
domestic carriers, UPS competes with a variety of international operators,
including Canada Post, TNT N.V., Deutsche Post (Owner of DHL), Royal
Mail, Japan Post, India Post and many other regional carriers, national
postal services and air cargo handlers (see Package delivery and Mail
pages).
Historically, the bulk of UPS' competition came from inexpensive
ground-based delivery services, such as Parcel Post (USPS). But in 1998
FedEx expanded into the ground parcel delivery market by acquiring RPS
(originally Roadway Package System) and rebranding it as FedEx Ground in
2000.
In 2003
DHL expanded its US operations by acquiring Airborne Express, significantly
increasing its presence in the United States, and adding more competition in
the ground delivery market. In response to this, UPS partnered with the US
Postal Service to offer UPS Mail Innovations, a program that allows UPS to
pick up mail and transfer it to a USPS center, or destination delivery unit
(DDU), for final distribution. This process is also known as zone skipping,
long used by Parcel Consolidators.
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recently, the continued growth of online shopping, combined with increasing
awareness of the role transportation (including package delivery) has on the
environment, has contributed to the rise of emerging competition from niche
carriers or rebranded incumbents. For instance, the US Postal Service claims
"greener delivery" of parcels on the assumption that USPS letter carriers
deliver to each US address, six days a week anyway, and therefore offer the
industry's lowest fuel consumption per delivery. Other carriers, like
ParcelPool.com, which specializes in residential package delivery to APO-FPO
addresses, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and other US Territories, arose in
response to increased demand from catalog retailers and online e-tailers for
low-cost residential delivery services closely matching service standards
normally associated with more expensive expedited parcel delivery.
In
April 2003, UPS unveiled a new logo, the fourth the company has used,
replacing the iconic package and shield originally designed in 1961 by Paul
Rand. The original logo first saw use in 1916 when the company was American
Messenger Service. In 1935, the logo was redesigned to reflect the company's
new name United Parcel Service. All four designs for the logo shared the
shield theme, and UPS employees often refer to the brand mark as "the
shield."
UPS.ca is the Canadian
website of UPS.COM
Facts About: | UPS.ca |
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