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These excerpts taken from the UPS 10-K filed Feb 27, 2009. Our goal is to provide our customers with easy-to-use products and services. We seek to streamline their shipment processing and integrate critical transportation information into their own business processes, helping them create supply chain efficiencies, better serve their customers and improve their cash flows. These products and services support LTL and air freight shipments, as well as small package transportation. UPS offers a variety of technology solutions for automated shipping, visibility and billing. We believe we have the most comprehensive suite of such services in the industry. Global Small Package. Our global small package portfolio consists of a spectrum of export and domestic services. Export services are those provided for packages crossing a countrys borders, while domestic services are for packages that stay within the borders of a single country. We provide domestic services in 23 major countries outside the United States. This portfolio includes guaranteed delivery options to major cities around the world. We handle packages that weigh up to 150 pounds and are up to 165 inches in combined length and girth. We offer same-day pickup of air and ground packages. We also offer worldwide customs clearance service for any mode of transportation. Additional products that provide enhanced shipping, visibility, billing and returns services are available to customers who require customized package solutions. Our enhanced, data-driven package pick-up and delivery technology is the basis for new services introduced in 2007. For example, UPS introduced a unique paperless invoice service for international small package shippers that integrates order processing, shipment preparation and commercial invoice data and then transmits that data to customs offices across the globe, eliminating the need for paper commercial invoices. Another new offering, UPS Returns, is the first industry offering that facilitates international commerce for any size customer by simplifying package returns to 98 countries or territories. Package recipients can obtain international return labels and commercial invoices via e-mail, local post or from a UPS driver picking up the return package. We provide our customers with easy access to UPS. There are almost 150,000 domestic and international access points to UPS. These include: 38,800 branded drop-boxes, 1,000 UPS Customer Centers, 6,000 independently owned and operated The UPS Store® and Mail Boxes Etc.® locations worldwide, 2,800 alliance partner locations, 13,200 Authorized Shipping Outlets and commercial counters, and 87,000 UPS drivers who can accept packages given to them. Supply Chain Services. Our freight forwarding and logistics businesses meet customers supply chain needs through a comprehensive portfolio of services, including:
In 2008, UPS launched a new, simplified global portfolio for shipping air freight, with guaranteed day-specific, door-to-door service as well as non-guaranteed service options.
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Table of ContentsFreight Services. UPS Freight provides LTL services through a network of owned and leased service centers and carrier partnerships. UPS Freight also provides our customers with truckload and dedicated truckload transportation solutions. Since expanding into the freight transport market, we have enhanced our value proposition through improvements in technology, operations and the customer experience. In 2007, we integrated all freight products, into our small package visibility systems, enabling shippers to view the status of package and freight shipments from a single web page. Since mid-2007, UPS Freight has accelerated transit times on over 12,000 lanes. Significant service and reliability improvements for freight transportation enabled us to implement a no-fee, guaranteed delivery service in early 2008 and expand it to Canadian deliveries later in the year. STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%">Our goal is to provide our customers with easy-to-use products and services. We seek to streamline their shipment processing and integrate critical transportation information into their own business processes, helping them create supply chain efficiencies, better serve their customers and improve their cash flows. These products and services support LTL and air freight shipments, as well as small package transportation. UPS offers a variety of technology solutions for automated shipping, visibility and billing. We believe we have the most comprehensive suite of such services in the industry. STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%">Global Small Package. Our global small package portfolio consists of a spectrum of export and domestic services. Export services are those provided for packages crossing a countrys borders, while domestic services are for packages that stay within the borders of a single country. We provide domestic services in 23 major countries outside the United States. This portfolio includes guaranteed delivery options to major cities around the world. We handle packages that weigh up to 150 pounds and are up to 165 inches in combined length and girth. We offer same-day pickup of air and ground packages. We also offer worldwide customs clearance service for any mode of transportation. Additional products that provide enhanced shipping, visibility, Our enhanced, data-driven package We provide our customers with easy access to UPS. There are almost 150,000 domestic comprehensive portfolio of services, including:
In 2008, UPS launched a
5 Table of ContentsFreight Services. UPS Freight provides LTL services through a network of These excerpts taken from the UPS 10-K filed Feb 29, 2008. Products and Services Our goal is to provide our customers with easy-to-use products and services. We seek to streamline their shipment processing and integrate critical transportation information into their own business processes, helping them create supply chain efficiencies, better serve their customers and improve their cash flows. These products and services support LTL and air freight shipments, as well as small package transportation. UPS offers a variety of technology solutions for automated shipping, visibility and billing. We believe we have the most comprehensive suite of such services in the industry.
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Global Small Package. Our global small package portfolio consists of air and ground services for package delivery to over 200 countries, providing delivery within one-to-two business days to the worlds major business centers. We offer a spectrum of export and domestic services. Export services are those provided for packages crossing a countrys borders, while domestic services are for packages that stay within the borders of a single country. We provide domestic services in 23 major countries outside the United States. This portfolio includes guaranteed delivery options to major cities around the world. We handle packages that weigh up to 150 pounds and are up to 165 inches in combined length and girth. We offer same-day pickup of air and ground packages. We also offer worldwide customs clearance service for any mode of transportation. Additional products that provide enhanced shipping, visibility, billing and returns services are available to customers who require customized package solutions. Our enhanced, data-driven package pick-up and delivery technology is the basis for new services introduced in 2007. For example, UPS Delivery Intercept enables a shipper to reroute a package while it is in transit. And UPS Proactive Response provides support to customers who require even greater control of their shipments. Shipments sent using this service are constantly monitored from pickup to delivery, watching for problems or delays, at which point prearranged intervention steps commence. We provide our customers with easy access to UPS. There are approximately 150,000 domestic and international access points to UPS. These include: nearly 40,000 branded drop-boxes, more than 1,000 UPS Customer Centers, over 5,800 independently owned and operated The UPS Store® and Mail Boxes Etc.® locations worldwide (over 4,400 in the U.S.), more than 2,400 alliance partner locations, in excess of 15,000 Authorized Shipping Outlets and commercial counters, and more than 85,000 UPS drivers who can accept packages given to them. Supply Chain Services. Our freight forwarding and logistics businesses meet customers supply chain needs through a comprehensive portfolio of services, including:
Freight Services. UPS Freight provides LTL services through a network of owned and leased service centers and carrier partnerships. UPS Freight also provides our customers with truckload and dedicated truckload transportation solutions. Since expanding into the freight transport market, we have enhanced our value proposition through improvements in technology, operations and the customer experience. These efforts have resulted in expanded market presence, despite a challenging economic environment. Significant service and reliability improvements for freight transportation enabled us to implement a no-fee, guaranteed delivery service in early 2008. Products and Services FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Our goal is to provide our customers with easy-to-use products and services. We seek to streamline their shipment processing and integrate critical transportation information into their own business processes, helping
4 Global Small Package. Our global small package portfolio consists of air Additional products that provide enhanced shipping, visibility, billing and Our enhanced, data-driven package pick-up and international access points to UPS. These include: nearly 40,000 branded drop-boxes, more than 1,000 UPS Customer Centers, over 5,800 independently owned and operated The UPS Store® and Mail Boxes Etc.® locations worldwide (over 4,400 in the U.S.), more than 2,400 alliance partner locations, in excess of 15,000 Authorized Shipping Outlets and commercial counters, and more than 85,000 UPS drivers who can accept packages given to them. Supply Chain Services. Our freight forwarding
Freight FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Technology Technology is the backbone of everything we do at UPS. It is at the heart of customer
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