Category: UPS Press Release

• UPS and Michaels offering consumers a safe and secure option to pick up packages and drop off returns outside of select Michaels stores across the United States
• This temporary solution meets the need for socially-distant interactions, while ensuring small business owners, makers and creatives continue to have access to necessary materials

The Michaels Companies, Inc., the largest arts and crafts retail chain in North America, and UPS today announce curbside service at UPS Access Point® locations located within more than 800 Michaels stores nationwide.

UPS Expertise and Flexible Global Network Keep Supply Chains Moving

• Focused on the Health and Safety of Employees and the Public
• Supported Customers with Near Record On-Time Service
• COVID-19 Weighed on First-Quarter Results
• Cash from Operations of $2.6B; Adjusted* Free Cash Flow of $1.6B
• UPS Liquidity and Financial Condition Remain Strong

UPS today announced first-quarter 2020 diluted earnings per share of $1.11 and adjusted diluted earnings per share of $1.15.  The company’s results were adversely affected by the disruption to customers from the global coronavirus pandemic.

• Drones to deliver prescription medicines from a Florida CVS pharmacy for the largest retirement community in U.S.
• Service supports social-distancing efforts and faster, same-day delivery of time- or temperature-sensitive medicines
• Service begins in early May in cooperation with the FAA
• Services to use Matternet’s M2 drone system

UPS today announced several New York City community support efforts, including the donation of 5,000 masks to a health center in Red Hook; deliveries of hand sanitizer and other supplies to NYPD; transportation of food for Henry Street Settlement and Vision Urbana, which provide meals for hungry families on the Lower East Side of Manhattan; a partnership to transport more than 1 million square yards of fabric to NYC to be made into hospital gowns; and UPS Foundation funding to the United Way of New York City.

UPS Supply Chain Solutions today announced warehouse network technology designed to make distribution centers smarter and more efficient. The new Warehouse Execution System (WES) will enable faster order intake and fulfillment to ensure that customers, especially those with fluctuating order patterns, receive their products on time.

UPS and supply chain solutions provider Softeon created the WES which allows UPS to define specific customer requirements to ensure highest priority orders are worked first without manual intervention, resulting in more than 50% productivity gains for some customers.