UPS is encouraging customers to pick up their packages instead of having them delivered. It’s not surprising – residential delivery is more costly for shipping carriers (though they charge shippers a surcharge when they send to a home address), and Read more
UPS is forecasting record-breaking holiday returns volume this year. It expects 1.9 million returns to take place on January 2, 2020, its forecast peak day. That’s a 26% increase over last year’s peak returns day. But high volumes aren’t expected Read more
UPS is offering shipping discounts to online who use Shippo to manage their multichannel ecommerce orders. The over 35,000 small- and medium-sized businesses that use Shippo now have access to UPS marketplace shipping rates with a discount of up to Read more
Online sellers who rely on Stamps.com to manage shipping now have a choice beyond USPS postage. Stamps.com is opening its platform to USPS rival UPS. Stamps.com had made big news in February when its CEO Ken McBride said he no Read more
UPS launched a service called Storage on Demand at ClickStoreStuff.com on Monday, available in metro Atlanta, Georgia. Customers can request delivery of empty storage bins directly to their home or business. After filling the bins with their belongings, they can Read more
UPS is growing its air express network, citing demand for faster deliveries from ecommerce and small business customers, as well as the healthcare industry. It announced Thursday it will boost infrastructure to support its growing air fleet, including a new Read more
UPS announced it is now certified to operate a drone airline, the first company to receive such government certification. The shipping carrier has been concentrating its drone efforts in healthcare in particular, and on Tuesday said it would initially expand Read more
UPS expanded its ground package sortation and distribution facility in Tennessee. The highly automated sortation and distribution facility has been expanded to over 447,000 square feet, nearly doubling package sortation capacity. The expansion is part of UPS’s multi-year strategic investment Read more
Merchants can now more easily add UPS Access Point to their checkout flow so that shoppers can specify a preferred pickup location at one of 38,000 locations. UPS and HubBox teamed up to simplify the integration for online sellers, and Read more
Remember when we told you in May that the US Postal Service was testing driverless trucks to cart mail between Arizona and Texas? UPS is investing in the company that is providing the vehicles in USPS’s test, called TuSimple, a Read more
