United Parcel Service News Archives

ToolBank USA received a $135,000 from The UPS Foundation, the charitable arm of UPS .

United Parcel Service Inc. ended its six-month search for a new global advertising firm, picking Ogilvy to handles global advertising, relationship marketing and digital activities.

Package delivery rivals FedEx Corp and United Parcel Service faced off for the first time over a bill pending in Congress that would change FedEx workers' labor laws, setting out their positions in a debate on Tuesday in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

A United Parcel Service employee is facing charges for allegedly stealing guns from shipments and selling at least one on the street.

TheStreet.com UPS on mend, but holiday view unclear UPS trucks leave the Olympic Hub near downtown Los Angeles, in this July, 2007, file photo.

A United Parcel Service employee was charged today with stealing three guns from shipments, one of which was sold on the street for $300, police said.

This volume was 2.5 times the security's average of 3,843 contracts. The bulk of this volume changed hands at the stock's December 60 put, which had volume of 2,560 contracts.

As this country becomes more and more populated, the odds are pretty good that the number of packages being shipped will increase.

United Parcel Service said third-quarter profit fell 43 percent as the recession weighed on demand for domestic package-delivery shipments.

United Parcel Service reported third-quarter earnings per share of $0.55, topping the consensus estimate of $0.52. Revenue, operating profit, and package volume were down, and earnings were boosted by aggressive cost-cutting. The earnings report looks like a glimmer of good news in a recession-battered economy, but it wasn't enough to boost the ...

Stock futures were poised for a slightly lower open on Thursday after the government said new jobless claims rose more than expected and a slew of big corporate earnings reports, including UPS, 3M, Dow Chemical and Merck.

United Parcel Service, Inc third quarter revenues fell 15% to $11.15 billion and net income fell 43.4% to $549 million or 55 cents a share.

United Parcel Service reported third-quarter net income fell 43%, but the company beat estimates and said it sees an improving economy.

Stock futures were mixed on Thursday ahead of leading indicator and jobless data and a slew of big corporate earnings reports, including UPS, Amazon.com, 3M, Dow Chemical and Merck.

There are a handful of companies that set the tone for our feelings about the health -- or lack thereof -- of the U.S. and global economies.

Tandy Bailey drove a United Parcel Service truck around the Phoenix area for a month after she joined the package delivery business in 1992 -- and she still draws on the experience daily in her job as engineering manager for UPS' Laurel Mountain District.

John Brennan, Staten Island manager for UPS, Matthew McHenry, dispatch supervisor, and Bryan Brown, preload supervisor, ran the campaign.

ORLANDO, Oct. 19, 2009 While navigating one of the most traffic-challenged cities in the country, UPS tractor-trailer driver Virginia "Ginny" Odom has logged more than 3.5 million accident-free miles and today marks her 35th year of safe driving tops among female UPS drivers worldwide.

Aaron's Inc. is putting more of its money into sports marketing. Aaron's has boosted its sports marketing budget by 10 percent - about $1 million a year - inking deals with the University of Alabama , NASCAR and Philips Arena , home to the NBA 's Atlanta Hawks and NHL 's Atlanta Thrashers .

Harold Fortis runs a Canadian company that manufactures soccer uniforms and exports them to the United States under the brand name Jogo.

CLEVELAND, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Parker Hannifin Corporation , the global leader in motion and control technologies, today announced initial commercial commitment for its new series hydraulic hybrid system, which is designed to completely replace the traditional drive train on delivery vehicles and has yielded significantly increased ...

By the time he was 17, Antonio Rocha had bounced among 11 New York City schools and was reading at a first-grade level.

Here's what Jim Cramer had to say about some of the stocks that callers offered up during the "Mad Money Lightning Round" Tuesday evening.

Posted October 12th, 2009 by theStockMasters... in Thanks to natural gas prices coming down and more discoveries of American deposits utilities are debating whether to retrofit coal plants for gas.

With China rising into a world power, there are all kinds of concerns and suspicions about China, but to a CEO from a renowned U.S. company, China's economic growth not only represents challenges, but also opportunities.

When we did a preliminary run-though of the holdings of several of our Ultimate Stock-Pickers back in August, our inspection uncovered more than a few high-conviction purchases, such as Accenture , McGraw-Hill , and Paychex , in addition to the health-care names that these managers were buying.

A four-pound package of marijuana sent from Fortuna didn't quite make it to its destination in Oklahoma this week, but did lead investigators to the recipient's own stash.

United Parcel Service eliminated all the left turns it could as a way to save fuel.

Gov. Bobby Jindal traveled to Texas on Thursday to raise money for his re-election campaign.

The stoplight at the northern Baltimore County intersection where a Baltimore Sun editor was killed in a collision with a United Parcel Service truck Monday morning is in good repair and was operating in a standard green-yellow-red manner at the time of the crash, officials said.

Atlanta-based UPS paid the undisclosed sum for a nonexclusive license under a comprehensive portfolio of patents that Katz owns relating to interactive voice applications, according to Los Angeles-based Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing.

Maryland highway officials said they will consider extending the hours that a Monkton traffic light operates full-time after a fatal accident at the site on yesterday.

ATLANTA, Oct. 6, 2009 UPS today became the first small package carrier to offer its customers the ability to offset the carbon dioxide emissions generated by the transport of their packages within the United States.

Timothy Wheatley was the Baltimore Sun's business editor. Wheatley joined the newspaper in May 2006 as the assistant managing editor for sports.

ATLANTA, Oct. 5, 2009 UPS employees expect to surpass the 1.2 million volunteer hours donated in 2008, driven by the company's 7th annual "Global Volunteer Month" during October.

Though child-welfare caseworkers have among the most difficult and high-stakes jobs in Florida, they work largely with the same tools they used decades ago: pens, notepads and paper maps.

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CANTON: The Better Business Bureau is warning about a scam involving bogus checks bearing the United Parcel Service account number of the Timken Co.

ITHACA -- A Newfield man was sentenced to five years of probation for felony marijuana possession in Tompkins County Court Wednesday.