Category: UPS Press Release

• Support for key relief organizations is helping to bring urgently needed supplies to impacted families and animals across Australia.
• As situations evolve in Puerto Rico and the Philippines, UPS is collaborating with relief organizations to bring essential supplies, with planned support for repair and reconstruction efforts.

The UPS Foundation, which leads the global citizenship programs for UPS (NYSE: UPS), announced today it is providing support to preeminent relief organizations bringing life-saving supplies and services to areas in Australia, Puerto Rico and the Philippines impacted by wildfires, earthquakes and the eruption of the Taal Volcano.

Business, postal and shipping services chain leads ranking in non-food category

The UPS Store, Inc., the world’s largest franchisor of retail shipping, postal, print and business service centers, has been ranked again as one of the top franchise brands, according to Entrepreneur Magazine’s 2020 Franchise 500. Ranked at No. 5 overall out of 1,000 companies, The UPS Store is also first in the postal and business services category and the only retail business service center brand in the top 10. This marks the 30th year the retail chain has appeared on the list, and its fourth consecutive year in the top five brands overall.

• UPS expects to process a record 1.9 million returns Jan. 2, 2020, up 26% from the prior year.
• This will mark a seventh consecutive record, illustrating how e-commerce continues transforming shopping patterns.

• UPS offers convenience and transparency in the returns process, benefitting both consumers and retailers.

UPS (NYSE: UPS) predicts a seventh consecutive record-breaking National Returns Day as consumers send back holiday orders ranging from ill-fitting sweaters to duplicate kitchen gadgets. On Jan. 2, consumers are expected to deposit 1.9 million returns packages into the UPS network – a 26% spike from last year’s peak returns day.

• UPS, Expo 2020’s Official Logistics Partner, delivers three iconic carbon-fiber entry portals for expected 25 million visits from 192 countries
• The international freight delivery from UPS constitutes the largest cumulative shipment for Expo 2020 as the portals are 21 x 30 meters
• Deliveries from Europe arrived as one of world’s greatest peacetime logistics operations passes “one year out” milestone ahead of Expo 2020

UPS (NYSE: UPS) announced today the completion of a series of multi-modal deliveries for Expo 2020 Dubai’s iconic entry portals in the run-up to next year’s official opening. UPS, the Official Logistics Partner of Expo 2020 Dubai, choreographed multiple shipments from Germany through Belgium’s Port of Antwerp and into Dubai’s major commercial port in Jebel Ali.

• Expansion of UPS Worldwide Express® and UPS Express® Plus delivery to over 3,200 new postal codes across 40 countries including five new countries
• UPS Worldwide Express Freight® delivery expands by nearly 8,000 postal codes across 11 countries including four new countries

UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced an expansion across 40 countries of its UPS Worldwide Express and UPS Express Plus, part of the UPS international suite of shipping services that guarantees time- and day-definite delivery for urgent shipments. UPS express services are now available to businesses across 140 countries and territories, reaching the top 20 countries by GDP with morning delivery. The latest expansion offers morning or midday service for companies looking to improve time to market, speed inventory replenishment and meet urgent needs for time-sensitive shipments to international growth areas around the world.