What Brown Can Do Today the United Parcel Service is expected to deliver more packages than on any other day in its history—a big test for the delivery giant after last year’s debacle in which millions of packages didn’t arrive in time for Christmas. Our story takes a look at the investments UPS has made to avoid a recurrence. We find that the company has spent about $500 million preparing for the holidays with projects including automated sorting systems to rapidly identify ZIP Codes and swiftly reroute packages in the event of bad weather. And this year, it has invested about $2.5 billion on everything from a faster rollout of a mapping and routing system that shaves miles and minutes off deliveries, to a new network of lockers and retail pickup points for packages to ensure delivery on the first attempt. “One of the things we like to joke is that we make a very simple business extremely complex and high tech,” the company’s chief financial officer said in an interview earlier this year.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 15:20:14 +0000
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