United Parcel Service

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United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) (Template:Nyse) is the world's largest package delivery company, delivering over 14 million packages a day to over 200 countries around the world. It has recently expanded its operations to include logistics and other transportation-related areas. It is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

UPS is well-known for its brown trucks, internally known as package cars (hence the company nickname "Big Brown", and sometimes, because of its NASCAR-related commercials, "The #88 Car".). The brown color that UPS uses on its vehicles and uniforms is called Pullman brown, after the railroad sleeper cars created by George Pullman, which used the same color. UPS also operates its own airline Template:Airline codes.

Major competitors include United States Postal Service (USPS), FedEx, and DHL. Historically, UPS only faced competition from USPS for the inexpensive ground based delivery market. However, FedEx recently expanded into the ground market by acquiring RPS (originally Roadway Package System) and rebranded it as FedEx Ground. In addition, DHL acquired Airborne Express. This acquisition significantly increases DHL's presence in the U.S. which will add more competition to the ground delivery market.

On May 16, 2005, UPS announced it would purchase Overnite Corporation for $1.25 billion. This was approved by the FTC and Overnite shareholders on August 4, 2005.

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Other codes

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System design

Image:Upspackagecars.jpg UPS's Parcel Network is based on a hub and spoke model. UPS operates centers which feed parcels to hubs where parcels are sorted and forwarded to their destinations. Centers typically are the point of entry for parcels and send the parcels to one or more hubs. A hub is a location where many centers send packages to be sorted and sent back out to other centers or hubs. For example, a parcel being shipped from Wilmington, NC to San Francisco, CA is picked up by a driver and taken to the 23rd street center in Wilmington, where it is loaded on a trailer and driven to Raleigh, NC. At Raleigh, the package would join packages from all over North Carolina and be forwarded to the Chicago Area Consolidated Hub in Hodgkins, IL. After arriving there, it would be loaded onto a trailer and sent by rail (trailer on flat car in most cases) to North Bay, CA where it would then be forwarded to the delivery center, loaded onto the delivery vehicle, and transported to its final destination.

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UPS Hubs (United States)
CityHRS CodeInternal SLIC
Worcester, MAMAWOR0169
Chelmsford, MAMACHE0189
New Stanton, PAPANEW1569
Willow Grove, PAPAWIL1949
Baltimore, MDMDBAL2129
Burtonsville, MDMDBUR2079
Richmond, VAVARIC2329
Roanoke, VAVAROA2409
Charleston, WVWVCHA2539
Greensboro, NCNCGRE2749
Raleigh, NCNCRAL2769
Columbia, SCSCCOL2929
Doraville, GAGAPLE3009
Atlanta, GAGAATL3039
Jacksonville, FLFLJAC3229
Orlando, Florida, FLFLORL3289
Montgomery, ALALMON3619
Nashville, TNTNWHI3719
Knoxville, TNTNKNO3799
Louisville, KentuckyASSDF4009
Lexington, KYKYLEX4059
81st Street
Indianapolis, IN
INI814629
16th Street
Indianapolis, IN
INI164619
Columbus, OHOHCOL4329
Toledo, Ohio, OHOHTOL4369
Middleburg Heights, OHOHMID4429
Hammond, INHAMIN4635
Tri-City, INTRIIN4639
Livonia, MIMILIV4812
Detroit, MIMIDET4829
Oak Creek, WIWIOAK5319
Stevens Point, WIWISTE5449
Billings, MTMTBIL5919
Minneapolis, MNMNMIN5549
Maple Grove, MNMNMAP5593
Northbrook, ILILNOR6009
Franklin Park, ILILFRA6019
Palatine, ILILPAL6029
Addison, ILILADD6039
Bedford Park, ILILBED6049
Hodgkins, ILILCCH6059
Jefferson Street
Chicago, IL
ILJEF6069
Earth City, MOMOEAR6309
Denver, COCODEN8809
Boise, IDIDBOI8379
Las Vegas, NVNVLVE8809
Las Vegas, NVNVLAS8819
Reno, NVNVRNO8919
Ontario, CACAONA9169
Portland, ORORPOR9719
Portland, ORORPOR9729
Seattle, WAWASEA9819
Redmond, WAWARED9829
Pacific, WAWAPAC9899
Spokane, WAWASPO9929
UPS Hubs (Canada)
City
Hamilton, ON
Mirabel, QC
Calgary, AB
Vancouver, BC
Winnipeg, MB

Note - HRS codes are five letter designators with two letters
being the state and three letters for the city. Operations
traditionally places state after the city whereas Information
Technology and a few other departments place the state before
the city as is done in this table.

UPS Airlines

Image:Airbus A300F4-622R UPS.jpg Employees : 18,138
Delivery Fleet: 235 UPS Jet Aircraft (as of November 2005)

UPS Airlines has ordered ten Airbus A380 freighters and has options on ten more. As part of the deal it is reducing an existing commitment for ninety Airbus A300 freighters to fifty three, forty six of which are already in service [1]. UPS Airlines will receive the A380 aircraft between 2009 and 2012 (ref: Airliner World, March 2005). UPS has also ordered eight Boeing 747-400 freighters to increase capacity on its major "trunk" routes to Europe, Asia, and North America. These are expected to be delivered in June 2007 and go on through 2008 (UPS press release, 17 August 2005).

Most UPS Airlines flights go through the UPS WorldPort at Louisville International Airport.

Trivia

  • NASCAR driver Dale Jarrett has appeared in UPS commercials, and his No. 88 Ford Fusion is sponsored by the company. In most of the commercials, UPS employees (and sometimes his father, Ned Jarrett, even kids in the shopping mall where Jarrett is shopping, and well-known celebrities) constantly ask Jarrett to race their trucks, and one new ad features all company trucks' being replaced by copycats of his Ford, complete with the No. 88 and UPS logo.
  • UPS's total United Way contribution of more than $57.3 million sets a new national record.
  • UPS Brown is a trademark of the company. The Pantone reference for the color is 0607298.
  • UPS inspired the off-Broadway musical Romance on Wheels during World War II.

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