Category: UPS News

UPS Receives Delivery of Its Last New Boeing 747 – Flying

Post author By Jessica (daughter of Cheryl & Tony)
Post date April 13, 2022

Ending an era, Boeing’s final four 747s—747-8F freighter variants—are expected to be delivered later this year to Atlas Air Worldwide.

With the delivery of UPS’ final 747-8F order, Boeing is closing in on the end of production for the historic jetliner that changed aviation forever.

Sporting its familiar brown, gold, and white livery, UPS Airlines’ new 747-8F (registration N633UP) flew Friday from Paine Field (KPAE) near Boeing’s plant in Everett, Washington, to Louisville (KDSF). There, the new “brown tail” joins the UPS fleet at the package delivery company’s main hub, UPS Worldport.

Today, we took delivery of our final @BoeingAirplanes 747-8. Tail N633UP is our 28th @UPS 747-8. This #queenoftheskies will provide a critical link to #deliverwhatmatters for our customers around the world. ✈️🤎✈️ #aviation #avgeeks

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— UPS Airlines (@UPSAirlines) April 9, 2022

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Autonomous vehicles could prove to be future model for delivery services, study finds – University of Kansas

Post author By Jessica (daughter of Cheryl & Tony)
Post date April 13, 2022

In this particular study, the autonomous vehicle assists the delivery person in making deliveries.

“The vehicle drops off the delivery person at one location. They serve customers by delivering packages on foot, and then the vehicle picks them up at an alternate location. So what does that do for the delivery driver? It removes the need to find parking where you leave a vehicle by itself, as well as it removes the delivery person’s walk back to the vehicle,” Reed said.

The United Parcel Service has used a similar approach during the holiday season in Baltimore, for instance, by putting an extra delivery person onboard its trucks. The model proposed by Reed considers upgrading the technology of the vehicle instead. But which approach ultimately saves more money? On one hand, there’s the extra cost of the additional driver; on the other hand, there’s the extra cost of autonomous technology.

“Given the wage cost and increased productivity, we show that the autonomous vehicle model is more cost-effective than putting an additional person on a traditional vehicle,” she said.

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Amazon is UPS’s biggest customer – and biggest competitive threat – Atlanta Journal Constitution

Post author By Jessica (daughter of Cheryl & Tony)
Post date April 13, 2022

UPS and its brown delivery trucks ruled American streets for decades.

But Amazon, UPS’s largest customer and competitor, could overtake the Sandy Springs-based company as the nation’s largest package carrier this year.

The rivalry traces its roots to the 2013 holidays, when a meltdown of the UPS shipping network led to millions of gifts ordered not arriving in time for Christmas. Amazon issued gift cards and refunds to mollify angry customers — and rapidly built out a home delivery network so it wouldn’t have to rely so much on UPS.

The high stakes competition is one more striking example of how West Coast tech titans are disrupting traditional industries and pressuring old economy stalwarts to reinvent themselves or risk being left in the rearview mirror.

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UPS crew gearing up for Thunder Over Louisville Airshow honoring Air Force veterans – WDRB

Post author By Jessica (daughter of Cheryl & Tony)
Post date April 13, 2022

With Thunder Over Louisville less than two weeks away, crews are gearing up for an airshow that will honor veterans.

This year, in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Air Force, the UPS crew flying in the pre-Thunder show will be made up of Air Force veterans, from maintenance to the pilots.

The crew talked with WDRB News on Tuesday about what spectators can expect to see when their Boeing 767 cargo plane soars across the Ohio River.

Capt. Steve England, observer, said the team takes the plane out to practice what their profile will be for the big day. Next, they’ll repeat it with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for final approval before practicing again next Thursday before Saturday’s show.

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UPS wants to ship packages in the metaverse – Atlanta Business Chronicle

Post author By Jessica (daughter of Cheryl & Tony)
Post date April 12, 2022

Get ready to see those big brown trucks rumbling down the virtual streets of the metaverse.

Atlanta-based shipping behemoth United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS) submitted several trademark filings to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that indicate it plans to join the metaverse. The filings are for goods and services including “non-fungible tokens” (NFTs); “virtual goods, namely, packages, parcels, [and] shipping labels;” and “virtual retail shipping.”

The company submitted individual filings for “United Parcel Service,” “UPS,” “The UPS Store,” and multiple logos.

The metaverse is a growing collection of interconnected virtual reality and digital platforms with online personas, real estate and businesses. People can log in and interact, similar to a multiplayer video game.