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WWWUPS is the website of United Parcel Service
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UPS -
United Parcel Service
United Parcel Service Inc.
(NYSE: UPS), commonly referred to as UPS, is the world's largest
package delivery company, delivering more than 14 million packages a
day to more than 200 countries and territories around the world.
It has recently expanded
its operations to include logistics and other transportation-related
areas. It is headquartered in Sandy Springs, Georgia, USA. UPS's
Parcel Network is based on a hub and spoke model. UPS operates centers
which feed parcels to hubs where parcels are sorted and forwarded to
their destinations. |
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Major competitors to UPS
SHIPPING include United States
Postal Service (USPS), FedEx
and DHL.
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UPS is well known for its brown
trucks, internally known as package cars (hence the company nickname
"The Big Brown Machine," and sometimes, because of its NASCAR-related
commercials, "The #88 Car"). The brown color that UPS uses on its
vehicles and uniforms is called UPS brown, which was chosen because it
is the same color that was used on Pullman railroad sleeper cars and
was seen as professional and elegant.
The brown color hides dirt well and was
inconspicuous. UPS's department store customers did not want to call
attention to the fact that UPS was deliverying their furniture, rather
than its own delivery men. UPS has trademarked the color brown, which
prevents other delivery companies from using it as part of their
brand. UPS also operates its own airline (IATA: 5X, ICAO: UPS, and
Callsign: UPS ) based in Louisville, Kentucky.
In April 2003, UPS unveiled the new logo, replacing the iconic package
and shield originally designed in 1961 by Paul Rand. It also shortened
its name from "United Parcel Service" to simply "UPS." |
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Source: Wikipedia
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