UPS Inc. expects to hire 95,000 temporary workers this year to help it with the annual holiday surge, when daily shipments rise by more than half.
September 20, 2017Business, Logistics
UPS Hiring 95,000 Seasonal Workers to Keep Up With Holiday Surge
Business, Logistics
UPS Reaps the Reward of Price Increases
UPS Inc. is finally figuring out how to make money from the surge in online shopping.
July 27, 2017Business
UPS to Charge More During Black Friday, Christmas Delivery Surge
UPS Inc. will place its first holiday-season surcharges on U.S. packages, as the world’s largest package-delivery company seeks to defray a surge in year-end costs.
June 19, 2017Business
UPS Forges China Joint Venture to Tap Country's E-Commerce Boom
UPS Inc. is setting up a joint venture in China to haul more U.S.-bound goods and capitalize on booming e-commerce in the world’s most populous nation.
May 30, 2017Business
UPS Tries Arming Its Brown-Clad Drivers With an Octocopter Drone
UPS Inc. sees a day when your latest purchase may be dropped off not by a brown-clad delivery driver, but by an octocopter drone.
February 21, 2017Business
UPS Debuts ‘Chatbots’ to Help Customers With Simple Requests
UPS Inc. is developing apps that help customers with simple requests and may someday enable them to track packages using voice commands.
November 21, 2016Business
UPS Tests Saturday Delivery in Response to Web Shoppers’ Clout
UPS Inc. may join its rivals in offering Saturday delivery for standard ground packages as the company adapts to surging online shopping and an increasing reliance on home-based customers.
July 15, 2016Business
UPS Asks People to Pick Up Packages Themselves
In time for the holiday season, UPS is rolling out to 100 cities a program that requires people in some neighborhoods to fetch packages at nearby locations — such as a druggist or dry cleaner — if they weren’t home to meet a driver.
September 30, 2015Business, Technology, Autonomous
UPS, Google’s Schmidt Invest in Uber-Type Delivery Startup
Google Inc. chairman Eric Schmidt and UPS Inc. have invested in Roadie Inc., a service that links people who want packages shipped with people willing to drive them.
January 27, 2015Business
UPS Turns Parking Lots Into Sorting Centers to Add Speed
Outside a brick-and-mortar sorting facility in suburban Atlanta, UPS has built its own Christmas village.
December 22, 2014