United Parcel Service (UPS)

Type: Public (NYSE: UPS)
Founded: August 28, 1907, Seattle, Washington
Headquarters: Sandy Springs, Georgia, USA
Key people: Michael Eskew, Chairman & CEO
Industry: Air Courier
Products: Freight Forwarding Services Logistics Services
Website: www.ups.com

General Information

United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS), commonly referred to as UPS, is the world's largest package delivery company, delivering more than 15 million packages a day to 6.1 million customers in over 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 is well known for its brown trucks, internally known as package cars (hence the company nickname 'The Big Brown Machine'). UPS also operates its own airline (IATA: 5X, ICAO: UPS, and Callsign: UPS ) based in Louisville, Kentucky.

UPS also owns The UPS Store (formerly Mailboxes Etc.), a franchise chain which provides shipping, packaging, and copy services.

Personnel

UPS employs approximately 407,200 staff, with 348,400 in the U.S. and 58,800 internationally. In the United States, UPS requires drug testing for full time driver positions who are looking to drive feeders or any other driving position that requires a commercial driver's license, but not for drivers of vehicles not requiring a commercial driver's license. Approximately 215,000 UPS employees are represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The company had only one nationwide strike in its history, which occurred in 1997, lasting 16 days.