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UPS Inc., the world's largest shipping carrier, is hiking 2010 rates for ground packages by an average of 4.9 percent.
UPS Inc., the world's largest shipping carrier, expects to deliver roughly 22 million small packages on its busiest day this year — projected to be Dec. 21.
A vice president for shipping giant UPS who was accused of raping a 21-year-old Indiana University student over homecoming weekend has committed suicide in Georgia, police said Monday.
FedEx Corp. and UPS Inc. officials argued Tuesday for the first time face to face about whether a labor bill pending in Congress would create a UPS monopoly or an even playing field for all package delivery companies.
UPS CEO Scott Davis, talked about the company's future prospects during Thursday's third-quarter earnings conference call with analysts.
Profits and sales were down for another quarter at UPS, but investors will look ahead to the upcoming holiday season to see if the world's largest shipping carrier — and the U.S. economy — are truly on the road to recovery.
UPS became the latest sponsor of the London 2012 Olympics on Wednesday, and the delivery company will manage the local organizing committee's transportation and logistics over the next three years in a part-cash, part-services partnership.
Shipping giant UPS is being accused of not paying overtime to account managers who go door-to-door making sales pitches to businesses.
UPS Inc. said Monday it has launched a technology that allows sellers to import their eBay order information, export it and automatically update orders.
Corporations spend a lot of money lobbying Congress and federal agencies on everything from labor issues to government regulations. UPS, also known as United Parcel Service, is no exception. In the April-June quarter, records show it spent $1.4 million on lobbying the federal government. That was up slightly from the $1.3 million it spent in the same quarter last year. UPS Chief Executive Scott Davis discussed the issue in the company's second-quarter earnings conference call with analysts on Thursday.
Consumers are sending fewer, lighter packages, businesses are urgently trying to spend less on shipping orders, and it all spells bad news for UPS Inc.
UPS Inc., the world's largest shipping carrier, is scheduled to report second-quarter results on Thursday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period.
UPS Inc. said Tuesday it has extended its contract with Ford Motor Co. to continue providing logistics services for the delivery of new cars to dealers.
Defending champion Lance Mackey and past winners Jeff King and Martin Buser have signed up in person for the 2010 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
FedEx Corp. is set to launch a multimillion dollar marketing campaign on Tuesday against chief rival UPS Inc., arguing the world's largest shipping carrier is the driving force behind a bill that would make it easier for FedEx workers to unionize.
UPS Inc. won't furlough any of its pilots for at least 10 months, after the union reached a deal with the world's largest shipping carrier that includes more than two-thirds of the cost cuts the company wanted.
UPS Inc., the world's largest shipping carrier, says it has acquired a unit of a European firm that has been its middleman for small package delivery in Slovenia for 18 years.
UPS Inc., the world's largest shipping carrier, is seeking $40 million in cost savings this year from its pilots, who are looking for alternatives to furloughs.
Shipping giant UPS Inc., hit hard by the global economic downturn, said Tuesday it has sold much of its international Mail Boxes Etc. brand to Italian holding company Fineffe Group for an undisclosed sum so it can focus on its MBE and UPS Store brands in the U.S., Canada and India.
UPS Inc. shareholders elected a board of directors for a one-year term Thursday at the company's annual meeting.
UPS Inc.'s first-quarter profit plunged as fewer people sent packages and used premium services like next-day air amid the global financial crisis. The world's largest shipping carrier also gave a disappointing second-quarter outlook on Thursday, and disclosed it shed 10,000 domestic jobs during the first three months of the year.
UPS Inc., the world's largest shipping carrier, reports first-quarter results on Thursday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period.
UPS Inc. said Friday that talks with DHL about carrying some of its air packages have ended, scuttling a venture that originally was expected to generate up to $1 billion in annual revenue for the world's largest shipping carrier.
The battered U.S. economy took a bite out of UPS' bottom line as consumers spent less and sent fewer packages in the last three months of 2008. The company Tuesday posted fourth-quarter sales and volume declines and said it will freeze management salaries and suspend 401(k) matches for employees to help UPS weather a difficult 2009.
Weak October retail sales and the uncertainty of the upcoming holiday season amid the worst financial crisis to hit the U.S. in decades has prompted shipping giant UPS Inc. to decide not to release a projection for the amount of packages it expects to deliver on its busiest day of the year.
Top UPS Executive Accused Of Rape Kills SelfATLANTA -- Police say a vice president for shipping giant UPS who was accused of raping a 21-year-old Indiana University student over homecoming weekend has committed suicide in Georgia.
6 hot electric car start-upsEach of these carmakers is gearing up to be the next big thing in electric automobiles. Here is how they're charting success.
UPS Taps Ogilvy to Handle Global Ad Account - Agency News - Advertising AgeA team led by Ogilvy has been chosen after a global review to handle advertising duties for shipping giant UPS, executives familiar with the matter said.
Gary Null: I'd like to welcome all of you, especially the Voice of America people all over the world, over a hundred and sixty countries.
Bouje Publishing was awarded the 2009 Emerging Program Award which recognizes an employee volunteer program that is less than 2 years old and has achieved significant results.
Obama Goes Postal, Lands in Dead-Letter Office: Caroline Baum "UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. It's the Post Office that's always having problems." -- Barack Obama, Aug. 11, 2009 No institution has been the butt of more government- inefficiency jokes than the U.S. Postal Service. Maybe the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Postal Service Fires Back at Obama over InsultThe National Association of Postal Supervisors has fired back at President Barack Obama for dragging the U.S. Postal Service further into the health care debate. In an Aug.
Health Care Goes Postal Obamacare Will Be Run As Well As The Post Office. Fear For Your Lives! By Kyle Smith. 3:56 am August 16, 2009After he was asked, "Who can compete with the government? The answer is nobody," Mr. Obama's answer evoked the public-private competition in the mail business. "UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right?" the president said. "It's the Post Office that's always having problems."
UPS driver stole packages Authorities say a Cape Coral UPS driver stole hundreds of packages he was supposed to deliver.
UPS started out as messengers with $100, two phonesThey shared the cobblestone streets with horse-drawn carriages and the earliest of Rambler automobiles. They were teenagers on bicycles, who zipped around traffic in old Pioneer Square and through the woods that still dotted what is now urban Seattle.
I hauled steel predominately. I hauled steel on a forty foot flatbed, in box trailers, I hauled two forty five foot trailers as one unit, and I hauled two twenty seven foot trailers with 34 wheels on the whole unit. They are called doubles. I pulled a tanker too.
Putting and End to Glenn Beck's Racist Antics and Apocalyptic RhetoricBeck's wildly offensive charge, spurred by the recent controversy over the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., was the latest low in a longstanding conservative narrative that ludicrously paints white men as the victims of "reverse racism" and oppression by minorities.
Come Saturday Morning: If Conservatives Do Pay-To-Play, Is It Still News?The Politico has broken, as an exclusive, the story of a conservative group's pay-for-play scandal that makes the Washington Post's efforts to cuddle up to the Obama White House and Capitol Hill look pretty minimal in comparison:
Principled Conservatism: American Conservative Union Caught Whoring Itself Out to Highest BidderThe ACU, that venerable organization founded by the likes of William F. Buckley and L. Brent Bozell and host of the annual CPAC convention, is no better than a street ho.
American Conservative Union For Sale - CheapThe American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a $2 million check in return for the group's endorsement in a bitter legislative dispute, then flipped and sided with UPS after FedEx refused to pay.
Unions, the National Labor Relations Act , FedEx, UPS and congress on collision courseIf Congress makes FedEx's operations more precarious by changing the law to make it easier for local disputes to cripple its operations, Smith says a multibillion-dollar order for 15 Boeing 777s will be automatically canceled.
Labor in the Driver's SeatIf Congress makes FedEx's operations more precarious by changing the law to make it easier for local disputes to cripple its operations, Smith says a multibillion-dollar order for 15 Boeing 777s will be automatically canceled.
If a public option would drive private health insurance out of business, how do UPS and Fedex survive against the USPS?The next time a pundit claims that a public option will put private health insurance companies out of business and lead to socialized health care, I hope someone asks them how UPS, Fedex, DHL, and hundreds of other smaller delivery companies are still in business, despite having …
These Big Companies Are Actively Hiringt's no secret that many big companies are announcing mass layoffs and pay cuts in the recession. With 5.1 million jobs lost nationwide since 2008, and the current unemployment rate at the 25-year high of 8.5%, it's easy to feel down about the battered labor market.
UPS Cancels O'Reilly Ads In Response to Campaign Against Fox News Stalker JournalismA few weeks ago, the Alexa Foundation, a group that offers support to rape victims, made the bizarre decision to invite right-wing propagandist Bill O'Reilly to speak at a fundraiser.
O'Reilly Ambushes Journalist and Gets Ambushed BackAfter ThinkProgress.org's managing editor Amanda Terkel wrote a blog entry critical of Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly, the bloviator-in-chief sent a producer, Jesse Watters, to stalk Terkel.
UPS Is Stopping Delivery On Advertising Dollars for Bill O'ReillyThank you for sending an e-mail expressing concern about UPS advertising during the Bill O'Reilly show on FOX News. We do consider such comments as we review ad placement decisions which involve a variety of news, entertainment and sports programming.
UPS Dumps Bill O'Reilly Sponsorship: They're Just Not Into Stalkersexcerpt: "Today UPS announced it will stop advertising on O'Reilly's show. Here is the statement UPS emailed out just moments ago."
Magician Says Claim He Shipped Himself From New York to Vegas Was HoaxA magician who posted videos online detailing a "trip" he made in a crate aboard a cargo plane from upstate New York to Las Vegas admitted Tuesday that it was an elaborate hoax.
Here's a trick: Make UPS ship a man in a box to VegasExcerpt: Wade Whitcomb, a magician by trade, says he once had a dream he was being shipped somewhere in a box. When his friend Ryan Breen asked him to pull off a publicity stunt to launch a Web site, Whitcomb knew what he wanted to do.
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