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Police have charged former United Parcel Service employee Brian Miller with stealing customer’s packages and selling the contents online. He apparently admitted to switching the labels on the packages so they’d be delivered to him, including several big-screen TVs. Then he sold the stolen contents on Craigslist.
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It then field-tested its new gear at a 35-car messenger service it owned in Los Angeles. It launched a $1.5 billion five-year computerization project, trying to create a system that tracked packages door-to-door, which FedEx was doing already. UPS's healthy river of cash flow enabled it to pay $1.8 billion for 110 aircraft in 1987. The purchase made it the tenth largest U.S. airline. The company launched its first wide-range television advertising campaign in 1988, spending $35 million to publicize the slogan, "We run the tightest ship in the shipping business." Despite these expenses, the company still had only $114 million in long-term debt and continued to finance large projects out of its cash flow.
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Randall F. Fetterman sustained a lumbosacral strain on March 19, 1984, during the course of his employment as a driver for United Parcel Service of America. The claimant's duties included loading, unloading, and delivering packages weighing an average of 35 pounds.
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In 1982 UPS decided to offer overnight air service (UPS Next Day Air), charging about half of FedEx's rate. By 1983 its second-day and next-day services were shipping a combined 140,000 packages a day. In 1982 UPS earned $332 million on $5.2 billion in sales. It had a fleet of more than 62,000 trucks. Mail-order firms and catalog houses were the fastest growing part of UPS's business. Jack Rogers became UPS chairman in 1984.
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UPS has taken the lead in the past few years, but FedEx can boast of an alliance it entered into with the U.S. Postal Service in 2000 that features FedEx drop boxes in post offices across the country. Despite their competition in business, UPS and FedEx agree on a lot politically. For years they have successfully opposed postal reform that would give the postal service easier access to the overnight, second-day and bulk-mail markets. They ... each advocate vigorously for free trade agreements that would boost the number of packages sent internationally.
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UPS Freight provides LTL services through a network of owned and leased service centers and carrier partnerships. UPS Freight transports a variety of products, including fabricated metal products, health care products, chemicals, textiles, machinery, furniture and fixtures, electronics, paper products and general commodities, including consumer goods, packaged food stuffs, industrial equipment and auto parts. UPS Freight ... provides customers with truckload and dedicated truckload transportation solutions.
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