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.

1 Other codes
- 1.1 Chief executives
2 System design
3 UPS Airlines
4 Trivia
5 See also
6 External links
7 References

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Other codes

AAR reporting marks: UPOZ, UPST, UPSZ, UPWZ

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Chief executives

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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)
City	HRS Code	Internal SLIC
Worcester, MA	MAWOR	0169
Chelmsford, MA	MACHE	0189
New Stanton, PA	PANEW	1569
Willow Grove, PA	PAWIL	1949
Baltimore, MD	MDBAL	2129
Burtonsville, MD	MDBUR	2079
Richmond, VA	VARIC	2329
Roanoke, VA	VAROA	2409
Charleston, WV	WVCHA	2539
Greensboro, NC	NCGRE	2749
Raleigh, NC	NCRAL	2769
Columbia, SC	SCCOL	2929
Doraville, GA	GAPLE	3009
Atlanta, GA	GAATL	3039
Jacksonville, FL	FLJAC	3229
Orlando, Florida, FL	FLORL	3289
Montgomery, AL	ALMON	3619
Nashville, TN	TNWHI	3719
Knoxville, TN	TNKNO	3799
Louisville, Kentucky	ASSDF	4009
Lexington, KY	KYLEX	4059
81st Street Indianapolis, IN	INI81	4629
16th Street Indianapolis, IN	INI16	4619
Columbus, OH	OHCOL	4329
Toledo, Ohio, OH	OHTOL	4369
Middleburg Heights, OH	OHMID	4429
Hammond, IN	HAMIN	4635
Tri-City, IN	TRIIN	4639
Livonia, MI	MILIV	4812
Detroit, MI	MIDET	4829
Oak Creek, WI	WIOAK	5319
Stevens Point, WI	WISTE	5449
Billings, MT	MTBIL	5919
Minneapolis, MN	MNMIN	5549
Maple Grove, MN	MNMAP	5593
Northbrook, IL	ILNOR	6009
Franklin Park, IL	ILFRA	6019
Palatine, IL	ILPAL	6029
Addison, IL	ILADD	6039
Bedford Park, IL	ILBED	6049
Hodgkins, IL	ILCCH	6059
Jefferson Street Chicago, IL	ILJEF	6069
Earth City, MO	MOEAR	6309
Denver, CO	CODEN	8809
Boise, ID	IDBOI	8379
Las Vegas, NV	NVLVE	8809
Las Vegas, NV	NVLAS	8819
Reno, NV	NVRNO	8919
Ontario, CA	CAONA	9169
Portland, OR	ORPOR	9719
Portland, OR	ORPOR	9729
Seattle, WA	WASEA	9819
Redmond, WA	WARED	9829
Pacific, WA	WAPAC	9899
Spokane, WA	WASPO	9929

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.

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UPS Airlines

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

47 Airbus A300-600R
13 Boeing 727-100
7 Boeing 747-100
4 Boeing 747-200
75 Boeing 757-200
32 Boeing 767-300ERF
40 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-70
17 McDonnell Douglas MD-11F

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.

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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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