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United Parcel Service is among the prominent companies in the world engaged in shipping and logistic operations across the world. The company is best known with its abbreviation, UPS as it marketed all over the world with the name of UPS. The company was founded in 1907 in Seattle, Washington by the efforts of James Casey. It was started as American Messenger Company and with the coming of 1913, it delivered first car, T Ford. Soon after that, the company got merged with Evert McCabe and gave birth to another company, called Merchants Parcel Delivery.
After many changes, the company redesigned its logo in 1937 with new name United Parcel Service and all the UPS vehicles given brown color with UPS logo made over them. Gradually, as the time passed, the company expanded its business. In 2001, the company took possession over mail boxes company. Later on, the company stepped into the business of heavy freight service.
The company runs its parcel and logistic services all over the Globe and its operations are handled under the Three segments, US. Domestic Package Operations, International Package Operations, and Supply Chain and Freight Operations.
As the name suggests, U.S. Domestic Package is a service meant to the delivery of letters, packages and other document all over the United States. For international delivery, UPS has created an international package which provides services in over 220 countries and territories. All the logistic operations of the company are performed through supply Chain and Freight UPS which provides services in over 175 countries and territories across the world. Its logistic truck service is given to North America.
UPS has stood as major competitors for the biggest giants of courier industry including DHL, Royal Mail, Japan Post, Deutsche Post etc. Brown color vehicles of the company has been given name Pullman and its former advertising slogan was “what can Brown do for you?” In the beginning James E. Casey wanted company's vehicle to be colored yellow later decided to paint them brown.
Coming to vehicles, the company has variety of vehicles for delivery of parcels, documents and other items. Package Cars are one of the vehicles used by the company which are manufactured by General Motors or Ford Chassis. These vehicles has manual steering without air conditioning and radio.
Apart from this, UPS also uses Mercedes Sprinter for London which used as pickup truck for the company. The company also uses large trailer painted with gray color with company's logo. For the cities like Vancouver, Washington, Portland, Salem, Corvallis, Antelope, Eugene, Medford UPS uses it Bicycles. Besides this, the company has contract with few railroad companies to offer Cargo services across the United States. As per the survey, UPS has strength of 425,300 staff members in which 358,400 are working in the United States and approximately 67,300 people are working all over the globe.
UPS has few subsidiaries such as UPS Capital, UPS Airlines, UPS Freight, UPS Capital, UPS Express Critical, UPS Professional Solutions etc.
The company provides its packing, postal, printing and shipping services through its retail and franchise stores. All the financial services of the company are handled by UPS Capital. Since becoming publicly trading company in 1999, the company has been continuously serving its customers with many business services.