Every year, workers at the Postal Service and UPS expect to work long hours between Thanksgiving and Christmas. “This is like our Super Bowl,” said Kimberly Karol, president of the Iowa Postal Workers (APWU). “Employees really do rally together.” But this year has been like no other. Workers were still catching their breath from last […]
Twitter users lambasted the president’s attempt to slow down the United States Postal Service to help his reelection chances. Donald Trump’s tweeted praise of two private sector delivery companies didn’t get the reaction he might have expected. On Friday, the president praised employees at FedEx and UPS for driving through storms to deliver millions of […]
A flood of mail and online holiday purchases is overwhelming the U.S. shipping system. An estimated 6 million packages a day are being left stranded, sitting idle in retailers’ warehouses or shipping centers and awaiting pick up by FedEx, UPS, Amazon, U.S. Postal Service and other shippers. That’s according to estimates from ShipMatrix, a software […]
From the Washington Post: The online auction and sales site eBay, one of the U.S. Postal Service’s biggest customers, said it is shifting some of its business to private-sector rival United Parcel Service because of reliability issues with the agency. “Customers want and expect to receive their packages in the fastest and most reliable way […]
US 01/29/20 Atlanta and Mountain View, CA Waymo’s self-driving vehicles will shuttle packages from The UPS Store locations in Metro Phoenix to UPS facility Partnership to develop customer and operational benefits UPS (NYSE:UPS) and self-driving technology company Waymo today announced a first-of-a-kind partnership to pilot autonomous vehicle package pickup in the Metro Phoenix area. Starting […]
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. (FOX 9) – The United States Postal Service estimates it will deliver more than 800 million packages this holiday season, UPS estimates it will deliver 750 million packages and with more and more people shopping online, this can lead to delivery delays. Some are also struggling to get their packages delivered to loved ones by Christmas. One Golden Valley woman […]
12/18/2019 ALEXANDRIA, Va. (FOX 5 DC) – Delivery drivers beware! Crooks are targeting package delivery trucks this holiday season. In fact, there have been three incidents in the D.C. area just days apart. UPS, FedEx and USPS trucks were either stolen or the drivers were robbed in the last couple weeks — the crooks are likely targeting the goods […]
US 11/21/19 Atlanta, GA UPS Brown Friday a success, generating more than 100,000 applications for seasonal positions In 2019, automated sortation capacity increased by nearly 400,000 packages per hour and six new super-hubs opened during 2018-2019 Eleven new aircraft added to UPS-owned fleet in 2019, adding leased aircraft during peak period Thousands of new, convenient UPS […]
ATLANTA, Oct. 21, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — UPS (NYSE:UPS) today unveiled a new collaboration with Stamps.com (NASDAQ:STMP) to provide their customer base of more than 740,000 access to specially discounted UPS® shipping rates. Stamps.com customers will have seamless UPS connectivity for e-commerce fully integrated within their familiar Stamps.com platforms. Stamps.com offers a portfolio of Internet […]
The U.S. Postal Service is asking for an average 5.4% increase for its express-shipping products in its proposed 2020 price increases submitted Wednesday. That is a bit of good news for parcel shippers such as United Parcel Service and FedEx, which might cheer the tailwind to industry pricing. J.P. Morgan, however, thinks investors should keep […]