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UPS will cut 20,000 jobs this year after breaking with its biggest customer Amazon. The delivery giant is looking to slash costs after its decision in January to halve the number of Amazon deliveries it takes. Deliveries for the e-commerce giant makes up around 12 percent of UPS's revenue, the company said. However, UPS said the profit margins for Amazon deliveries were too small and it wanted to refocus on more lucrative markets such as healthcare and international deliveries. The decision will also lead to the closure of 73 UPS buildings this year, the company said on Tuesday. UPS CEO...

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Hopefully, someone out there in FR Land can help me with a UPS Worldship problem. Last weekend the Shipping computer at one of my IT client's just up and died. I wasn't really worried since I do a daily iDrive backup every evening. So I purchased a new computer, got it set up, and after jumping through the usual hoops with UPS, I got Worldship installed. Next up, was to install the UPS database (address, past invoices, etc.) from my iDrive backup file. I've done this before when I was upgrading machines where you just use the Worldship program to...

MESA, Ariz. - Holiday cards and packages are criss-crossing the country before Christmas, but a few appear to have been rerouted illegally when they got to a UPS warehouse in Mesa. Now, four men are accused of being more interested in making profits than making deliveries. The suspects have been identified as: Bo Arias Casey Bedell Jeremy Large David Panasci The suspects didn’t have much to say in court on Dec. 18, but the presiding judge said plenty. "You were all arrested on allegations of theft of controlled property, which is a Class 3 felony, and Mr. Arias and Mr....

Burisma Holdings founder Mykola Zlochevsky, who allegedly paid a total of $10 million in bribes to Joe and Hunter Biden in 2015 and 2016 in exchange for then-Vice President Joe Biden’s assistance in getting Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired, is believed to be an asset of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) by the United States intelligence community, according to a national security source speaking to RedState on condition of anonymity. The official said:

CHICAGO - A group of at least a dozen people looted a UPS tractor-trailer on Chicago's Southwest Side Thursday morning following a crash. At 10:46 a.m. in the 2100 block of South Kedzie Avenue in the city’s Little Village neighborhood, the truck’s roof was torn off while attempting to drive underneath a viaduct. The slight miscalculation was only the first in a series of bizarre events that unfolded. As the truck was traveling northbound on Kedzie Avenue, just past Cermak Road, the truck driver struck the viaduct. SkyFOX captured stunning video of its roof peeled off like a tin can....

A rally for Kamala Harris in Detroit, Michigan, on Wednesday reportedly ended in disaster with thousands stranded while certain staffers were brought to tears. According to political scientist Josiah Lippincott, the rally ended with people being unable to find shuttles back to their cars, leaving them stranded. “Complete chaos after the Detroit Kamala rally. It has been 2.5 hours and people are still unable to find shuttles back to their cars. Campaign staff has no idea what is happening. Rally was held near a UPS delivery center so dozens of trucks are mixed up with the buses. Tempers are high,”...

Multiple brokerages, including Charles Schwab, Fidelity, Vanguard, TD Ameritrade, E-Trade, UPS, CenturyLink, and Interactive Brokers, are currently down and reporting errors amid market crashes.

As we all have seen, corporate America has become militantly pro-LGBT and anti-Christian over the past few decades.... James Earls has worked at UPS for 35 years and is a devout Christian. He has received some of UPS’s highest awards for safety and loyalty. He is a driver of a large UPS “feeder truck.” He lives in Alabama and is represented by Teamsters Local 402. .. During the celebration of Gay Pride Month a few years ago, James entered the UPS facility in Madison, Alabama. UPS was showing its support and dedication to the LGBT movement by broadcasting images on...

Once an EV darling thought to revolutionize EV production with its concept of micro-factories that crank out delivery vans for the likes of Uber and UPS, UK startup Arrival is in a desperate search for funding after being delisted from Nasdaq this week. Nasdaq suspended trading of Arrival shares this week, followed by a formal delisting, Reuters reports. The action is the result of Arrival being late in posting financial results and failing to file a remediation plan and hold an annual shareholder meeting. After announcing it was slashing its workforce by 50% last year, Arrival said it had received...

UPS announced Tuesday that it will cut 12,000 jobs as part of a bid to save $1 billion costs. Managers and contractor positions will make up most of the layoffs. The job cuts come as UPS issued a disappointing sales outlook for this year, saying it expects global revenue of between $92 billion to $94.5 billion. That would be up from the $91 billion in revenue it reported for 2023, but analysts surveyed by Refinitiv had been expecting revenue of at least $95.6 billion.

UPS fell short of Wall Street revenue estimates Tuesday, reporting drops in shipping volume, both internationally and domestically, in its fourth-quarter earnings report. The company also announced 12,000 layoffs as part of an effort to align resources in 2024. The workforce reductions will save the company about $1 billion in costs, CEO Carol Tomé said on a company earnings call. “2023 was a unique, and quite candidly, difficult and disappointing year. We experienced declines in volume, revenue and operating profits and all three of our business segments,” Tomé said. Shares of the package giant dipped 8% in early trading.

United Parcel Service said Tuesday that it plans to cut about 12,000 jobs this year, a move that the package-delivery giant said would result in $1 billion in savings. Most of the cuts will be to full-time and part-time management positions and contract workers, and executives said they don’t expect these jobs to return when parcel volumes return. UPS has around 85,000 workers in management. [Snip] The job cuts were unveiled after the company said its revenue declined in the last quarter of 2023 as volumes in both its domestic and international businesses dropped.

Amazon has claimed the title of the largest nongovernment delivery service in the nation, outperforming both UPS and FedEx in parcel volumes. The e-commerce giant sent out more residential deliveries to U.S. homes in 2022 than UPS, according to the Wall Street Journal. In 2020, Amazon surpassed FedEx for the number of packages delivered to homes, and Amazon officials expected to widen that margin this year. The U.S. Postal Service is still the largest domestic parcel service by volume, handling deliveries for Amazon, UPS, and FedEx. Amazon exceeded 4.8 billion parcel deliveries in the United States before Thanksgiving, the Wall...

... . GLENARDEN, MD – A UPS driver encountered a shocking ordeal in broad daylight, as recorded in doorbell surveillance camera footage. The woman was surrounded and her truck hijacked at gunpoint in a residential neighborhood in Glenarden, Maryland. ...

Anyone else having problems receiving USPS packages, or UPS/FedEx items? During the past few weeks I have had several mailed/shipped items take bizarre turns in routing which has created delays in receiving. I guess watching shipments is front and center these days.

So many people in the US are using and abusing laxatives that it’s caused a national shortage. Just like many health-related problems of today's world, the dwindling stockpiles of pooping pills can be explained by a mixture of terrible diets, questionable internet trends, the nation’s aging population, and strains on mental health. The US is currently experiencing a scarcity of polyethylene glycol 3350, the prime compound found in many big brand laxative products like MiraLAX and Glycolax Some pharmaceutical companies have even reportedly started building new factories, in part, to boost the production of the sought-after compound. Polyethylene glycol eases...

A mugger possibly posing as a UPS delivery man beat a woman with a weighted sock and robbed her of $25 inside the elevator of a Manhattan building over the weekend, police said Sunday. The 26-year-old victim was getting off the lift in the building at East 27th Street and Third Avenue in Kips Bay at around noon on Saturday when the creep pulled her back in and beat her “multiple times” in the back of the head with what cops described as “a sock filled with an unknown object.” He then grabbed the small amount of cash from her...

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaking with his Israeli counterpart Defense Minister Yoav Gallant regarding Democracy in Israel... A former US Marine jailed in Russia and freed in a prisoner swap wounded in the Ukraine War... The Russian military in Syria recording 12 violations of Syrian airspace by British, French and US warplanes today... In Boise, Idaho the jury in the civil suit against Ammon Bundy and Diego Rodriguez ruling against the defendants... Protesters torching Islam's holy book The Quran (Koran) in Copenhagen, Denmark today... UPS and the Teamsters Union reaching a contract agreement ... In Argentina business organizations say...

UPS -2.21% United Parcel Service (UPS) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters reached a tentative new five-year collective bargaining agreement covering approximately 330,000 delivery and warehouse workers. The agreement, if finalized, would avert the largest single strike against a company in US history and an estimated $7 billion hit to the US economy. The union's current contract with the delivery giant expires Aug. 1, and the Teamsters had threatened that drivers would walk off the job without a deal. Talks between the two sides restarted today after stalling earlier in the month. "We’ve reached a win, win, win agreement," a...