Months of collective bargaining have culminated in a tentative agreement for UPS (NYSE: UPS) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The five-year agreement, which is subject to ratification, covers Teamsters-represented UPS employees in small package roles. Continue reading BOSTON (CBS) — UPS drivers are planning to demonstrate against a 70-hour work week during the holiday season. Continue reading UPS (NYSE: UPS) today announced it will place in service three medium-duty electric trucks from Daimler Trucks Fuso brand, called the eCanter. The company will be the first commercial customer in the U.S. to use this series-produced vehicle. UPS will deploy the trucks in the U.S. at locations to be determined. The new EV trucks build on UPS’s Rolling Laboratoryfleet of more than 8,500 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles. Continue reading UPS (NYSE:UPS) announced today plans to build a new $200 million package operations facility in Arlington, TX. The project will span more than 1,100,000 square feet on more than 110 acres. Powered by industry leading operational technology and equipment, the new UPS® hub will create even greater network efficiency and flexibility to manage business and consumer-directed package growth for the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Continue reading From United Parcel Service: Atlanta, GA A federal judge on Friday held United Parcel Service Inc (UPS.N) liable for having illegally shipped hundreds of thousands of cartons of untaxed cigarettes in New York, depriving the state and New York City of millions of dollars of taxes. Continue reading PLEASANT HILL (KPIX 5) — Postal imposters are a problem plaguing a lot of communities. Pleasant Hill is the latest city to get hit. One woman has been spotted driving around in an old United States Postal Service truck without license plates, opening people’s mailboxes and stealing what’s inside. Continue reading DERBY, Kan. (KWCH) People across Kansas are concerned because they said delivery drivers aren’t knocking on their doors or ringing the doorbell when dropping off packages. One Derby woman said it’s happened to her twice this month. Darla Harper said she doesn’t order online often, but she’s been disappointed by delivery companies twice this month. Continue reading United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp. are straining to keep up with holiday shipping volumes that have blown past expectations, delaying the delivery of some of the millions of online orders shoppers have placed since Thanksgiving. UPS has relocated hundreds of staff from its headquarters and other corporate offices to help at shipping hubs struggling to handle record demand, according to people familiar with the situation. Already in advance of the busy holiday season, both UPS and FedEx had extended delivery windows on some routes, suspended delivery guarantees and refunds for certain weeks and stopped promising to deliver express packages by a certain time in some cases. Continue reading UPS (NYSE:UPS) on Monday said it has launched a beta version of a chatbot, an artificial-intelligence-enabled platform that mimics human conversation to help users easily find UPS® locations, get shipping rates and track packages. Continue reading
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UPS, Teamsters Reach Handshake Agreement For New Contract
UPS Drivers To Demonstrate Against 70-Hour Work Week
UPS First Commercial Customer In U.S. To Use New Daimler Electric Delivery Truck
UPS To Add New $200 Million Package Facility in Dallas-Fort Worth Area
UPS Boosts Saturday Operations To Increase E-Commerce Delivery Speed
Judge finds UPS liable to New York over cigarette shipments
Video: Postal imposter spotted stealing packages in California town
Video: Is a package deliverer required to knock?
UPS, FedEx Struggle to Keep Up With Surge in Holiday Orders
UPS Launches Chatbot
ATLANTA, Nov. 21, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —
