United Parcel Service (UPS), in partnership with drone company Matternet, has made its first commercial drone delivery: a medical sample between hospitals. The short flight took place in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Tuesday 2...

UPS has invested $270,000 into a scheme promoting women in the exporting industry, as part of $10 million pledged by the UPS Foundation towards diversity and inclusion programmes. Through its Women In Exports initiative, UPS...

Carlton Rose, UPS’ president of global fleet maintenance and engineering, told the Green Truck Summit in Indianapolis that UPS is looking into electric solutions for commercial vehicles, but that they are not yet the id...

UPS has joined recycling company TerraCycle and a coalition of consumer product companies to trial a new system of reusable packaging. Through the Loop system, companies deliver products in customised, durable packaging that...

UPS Latch, the courier company’s Amazon Key-like smart lock service, will be introduced to 10 US cities in 2019. The service, which currently operates only in New York and San Francisco, will come to Atlanta, Boston, C...

UPS has opened a new “super hub” in Atlanta, its second largest ground packaging facility in the US. Measuring a spacious 1.2 million square feet, the facility will sort 100,000 parcels per hour and create 3,000 ...

Teamsters, the US labour union, has approved a five-year contract with UPS despite 54% of the 92,605 UPS employees who cast their vote rejecting the deal. The reason is that less than half of the over 200,000 UPS workers who...

UPS has announced its new growth strategy for the business, looking to improve operational costs and boost earnings between now and 2022. The company will focus on four “strategic imperatives”: the continued expa...

UPS has applied for a patent for blockchain technology that could be used to plan package routes and to track shipments made by multiple carriers. The technology would not only store and track data relating to the shipment&r...

UPS has made a deal with LA start-up Thor Trucks to create a pair of battery-powered Class 6 commercial vehicles. The two trucks, which can travel about 100 miles per charge, will be tested around Los Angeles. UPS says it wi...

UPS has been testing an Amazon Key-style smart lock home delivery system, using locks from startup company Latch. It’s been trialled in New York City apartment blocks, or “multi-home units”, as an option fo...

Investment bank and financial services firm UBS has upgraded its rating of UPS stock to “buy” while downgrading FedEx stock to “neutral”, after evaluating the near-term outlook of both companies. FedE...

The UPS Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of UPS, has announced that it will be awarding over $10 million in grants this year to advance diversity and inclusion. The grants will support over 30 organisation...

UPS has made a handshake deal with Teamsters, on behalf of the union's UPS members in the US. The current contract expires on 31st July 2018. UPS and Teamsters have negotiated an hourly wage increase of $4.15 over five years...

UPS will buy 950 electric vans from Workhorse Group, according to the electric vehicle start-up. The model UPS has purchased is the Class 5 N-Gen, of which it had previously ordered 50 as part of a test phase. Each vehicle c...

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced last week that 93% of its UPS members and 91% of its UPS Freight members have endorsed strike action, if necessary, ahead of upcoming contract negotiations in the US. The ...

Two UPS employees were injured in an explosion at a freight facility in Lexington, Kentucky, on Wednesday. The courier company said the cause appeared to be accidental. According to UPS, the culprit may have been a gas leak ...

UPS has opened a new £120 million hub at the DP World London Gateway Logistics Park in the UK. The hub is 32,000 square feet, will employ over 500 people and reportedly has the capacity to process up to 28,000 packages...

The Independent Pilots Association (IPA) has accused UPS of violating its pilots' labour contract by outsourcing to third-party cargo airlines to make up for a capacity shortage. The complaint concerns the use of these airli...

UPS has installed a new smart grid at its depot in Camden, London, which will allow all of the depot’s 170 delivery vehicles to go electric. Described by UPS as a “world first”, the smart grid—the res...

UPS has sued the European Commission for blocking its takeover of TNT Express in 2013. The EU’s antitrust regulators had put a stop to the deal based on fears that UPS would monopolise the parcel delivery market in Eur...

UPS will be deploying 50 zero-emission plug-in electric delivery vehicles and testing them along urban routes across the US. According to a press release, for the first time the cost to acquire these vehicles is comparable t...

UPS will be delivering an estimated 88 million flowers for Valentine’s Day this year, according to the company. Referring to its global “lovegistics” network, a pun just about tacky enough to suit the occas...

In new contract negotiations, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is looking to prohibit UPS from using drones or driverless vehicles for parcel delivery. The Teamsters also seek an end to late-night deliveries, and...