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UPS Honors Tennessee Drivers For 25 Years Of Safe Driving

Tennessee boasts 333 Circle of Honor drivers with a combined 8,315 years of accident-free driving. Michael Matlock of Strawberry Plains is the state’s senior-most safe driver, with 42 years of accident-free driving under his belt. There are 2,583 total UPS drivers in Tennessee. In 1928, UPS recognized its first five-year safe driver, Ray McCue, with UPS founder Jim Casey presenting him a gold and platinum watch. UPS formally established its safe driving honor program in 1928** NOTE: The followin

By | 2018-02-26T16:00:00+00:00 February 26th, 2018|companies, News|0 Comments

UPS Honors Louisiana Drivers For 25 Years Of Safe Driving

Louisiana boasts 114 Circle of Honor drivers with a combined 2,681 years of accident-free driving. William Sanders of Bossier City is the state’s senior-most safe driver, with 40 years of accident-free driving under his belt. There are 1,073 total full-time UPS drivers in Louisiana. Collectively they’ve racked up 257,221 years and nearly 14 billion safe miles during their careers. UPS formally established its safe driving honor program in 1928.

By | 2018-02-26T16:00:00+00:00 February 26th, 2018|companies, News|0 Comments

UPS Honors Alabama Drivers For 25 Years Of Safe Driving

Alabama boasts 178 Circle of Honor drivers with a combined 4,235 years of accident-free driving. Larry Jackson of Deatsville is the state’s senior-most safe driver, with 41 years of accident-free driving under his belt. There are 1,238 total full-time UPS drivers in Alabama. Collectively they’ve racked up 257,221 years and nearly 14 billion safe miles during their careers. UPS formally established its safe driving honor program in 1928.

By | 2018-02-26T16:00:00+00:00 February 26th, 2018|companies, News|0 Comments

FedEx Responds to Questions on the National Rifle Association, Gun Safety and Policy

FedEx Responds to Questions on the National Rifle Association, Gun Safety and PolicyUpdate – February 27, 2018 –FedEx is aware there are some continuing concerns related to the NRA, and we want to provide important, clarifying facts. For shipping from its online store (http://www.nrastore.com/shipping-information), the NRA uses UPS and not FedEx . FedEx remains committed to all our customers and the pricing we provide them independent of their political affiliations and views. February 26, 2018

By | 2018-02-25T23:53:00+00:00 February 25th, 2018|companies, News|0 Comments

Press Release

The paper provides a practical guide to specific digital features and strategies used by businesses that are developing a cross-border e-commerce offering and presents a framework for companies to better understand and benchmark their own level of e-commerce... “The most successful e-commerce companies today provide an enhanced customer experience comparable to what we all now know from our personal online shopping activities. To compete in this changing market environment, B2B companies are also having to change their supply chains, becoming more transparent, streamlined, responsive and flexible. To take advantage of this potential, companies need to provide a more flexible, scalable and mobile customer experience in line with business-to-consumer (B2

By | 2018-02-25T16:00:00+00:00 February 25th, 2018|companies, News|0 Comments

Dazzling Bioluminescent Life Forever Stamps Come to Light Today

Postal Service searched the darkness of the deep ocean realm in its quest to deliver the luminous beauty of bioluminescent life on highly-reflective Forever stamps. Available nationwide today, the Bioluminescent Life Forever stamps celebrate life-forms that create their own light and perform a variety of functions, including support for medical research. Through improved deep-sea exploration and advances in photography, scientists have identified thousands of bioluminescent species. The Postal S

By | 2018-02-23T00:44:02+00:00 February 23rd, 2018|companies, News|0 Comments

UPS To Deploy First Electric Truck To Rival Cost Of Conventional Fuel Vehicles

“With our scale and real-world duty cycles, these new electric trucks will be a quantum leap forward for the purpose-built UPS® delivery fleet. The all electric trucks will deliver by day and re-charge overnight. UPS’s goal is to make the new electric vehicles a standard selection, where appropriate, in its fleet of the future. UPS has more than 300 electric vehicles deployed in Europe and the U.S., and nearly 700 hybrid electric vehicles. All Workhorse vehicles are designed to make the movement

By | 2018-02-23T00:42:48+00:00 February 23rd, 2018|companies, News|0 Comments

Press Release

The state-of-the-art hub is equipped with the most recent logistics technology and will almost quadruple the capacity of DHL Express in Brussels to 42,000 shipments per hour. The state-of-the-art hub is equipped with the most recent logistics technology and will almost quadruple the capacity of DHL Express in Brussels to 42,000 shipments per hour. Brussels Hub is one of our largest hubs in the world and because of its location in the logistics heart of Europe, it also plays an important role in connecting companies from this region with the world. At full capacity, the hub’s two automated sorting systems can process up to 42,000 packages per hour, making it the fifth

By | 2018-02-21T16:00:00+00:00 February 21st, 2018|companies, News|0 Comments

New FedEx SME Trade Index

New FedEx SME Trade IndexWhat Small Business Says about TradeResults of the third FedEx SME Trade Index find that small business leaders view increasing U.S. participation in global trade as the way to create American jobs and improve the economy. The results of the survey *, commissioned by FedEx and conducted by Morning Consult, find that not only do a substantial majority of U.S. small business leaders (76%) continue to view increasing trade as beneficial to the overall U.S. economy, two out

By | 2018-02-19T23:53:00+00:00 February 19th, 2018|companies, News|0 Comments