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Good day, At least 11 UPS Inc (NYSE: UPS) employees, including two supervisors and drivers, have been arrested on state charges of drug trafficking, based on a decade-long joint investigation by local, state, and federal law enforcement officials. The UPS employees are accused of helping smuggle...

A company most Americans have never heard of is poised to control a large swath of urban industrial land in greater Los Angeles. The North American unit of Australian real estate company Goodman Group (OTCMKTS: GMGSF) said it has acquired a 65-acre manufacturing and distribution site in Fullerton...

Customers of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) that tender a lot of packages weighing 50 to 70 pounds are in for some price pain in 2020 unless they are excellent contract negotiators. The reason: For the first time, FedEx and UPS will slap an "additional handling surcharge" on air...

UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS)  is adding another e-bike delivery pilot to its roster of cycling services, this one involving an electric-assist cargo trike that will deliver packages to the Portland State University campus. The new project comes as the company and its competitors — including FedEx...

In another salvo in the decade-long, low-level war between the two leading U.S. parcel carriers and a cluster of consultancies that work on behalf of carriers' customers to optimize their parcel shipping spend, UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) said it will waive its money-bank guarantee on late or missed...

There have been a steady stream of blockchain-based pilot projects within the supply chain landscape. Today, UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) announced a collaboration with agri-tech solutions provider HerdX of the successful delivery of a blockchain-verified beef shipment from a U.S. farm to Japan. UPS...

Regional carriers have much to offer parcel shippers, especially those looking to break some of their bonds with FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS). The regionals can deliver fast and reliably because of their tight coverage areas. Their cost to serve can be lower because they don't...

The push to build density in business-to-consumer (B2C) last-mile delivery has become so intense that customers are now being paid to aid the effort. UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) announced on November 7 that it is offering $35 in rewards for consumers to pick up holiday packages at any one of 15,000...

A federal appeals court on Nov. 7 upheld a lower court's ruling that shipping giant United Parcel Service Inc. is liable for illegally transporting hundreds of thousands of cartons of untaxed cigarettes from Native American reservations to unlicensed recipients in New York state. In its ruling,...

UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) said Tuesday that its commercial drone unit had made its first revenue deliveries of prescription drugs from a CVS Corp. (NYSE: CVS) pharmacy in North Carolina to customers' residences. The first two deliveries occurred last Friday in Cary, North Carolina. The first flight...

UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) said Monday that holiday returns traffic will peak Jan. 2 at 1.9 million packages, a 26% increase from the 2018 peak. UPS also expects 1.6 million daily returns during the week before Christmas, another indication that the days are past when returns traffic was concentrated...

Good day, Data analytics is made to order for a complex, interdependent industry like logistics, according to a story in CIO Applications. Citing a report, the story said 93% of shippers and 98% of third-party logistics (3PL) firms consider data analytics a critical tool to enable intelligent...

Anyone who works in the parcel delivery business knows that life holds three certainties – death, taxes, and UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) and FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) moving in lockstep on almost everything. The first two are immutable. The third one, though, perhaps not so much. To be sure, the tag team...

Move over, Black Friday. To gear up for the holiday retail season and hire the 100,000 seasonal workers it needs, UPS Inc (NYSE: UPS) is holding a one-day hiring event on November 1, and it's calling the day "UPS Brown Friday."  UPS hopes to hire 50,000 seasonal workers at 185 hiring fairs across...

UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) said Monday it will add 1.3 million square feet of U.S. healthcare warehouse and distribution space by the end of 2020, a move that will increase its physical distribution footprint in the segment by more than 30%. UPS said it has opened a 450,000-square-foot facility near its...