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United Parcel Service

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United Parcel Service, Inc.
Formerly
  • American Messenger Company (1907–1913)
  • Merchants Parcel Delivery (1913–1919)
Company typePublic company
IndustryCourier
FoundedAugust 28, 1907; 118 years ago (1907-08-28) in Seattle, Washington, U.S. as the American Messenger Company
FounderJames E. Casey
HeadquartersSandy Springs, Georgia, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Services
RevenueIncrease US$91.07 billion (2024)
Decrease US$8.468 billion (2024)
Decrease US$5.782 billion (2024)
Total assetsDecrease US$70.07 billion (2024)
Total equityDecrease US$16.74 billion (2024)
Number of employees
c.490,000 (2024)
Subsidiaries
  • UPS Airlines
  • Nightline Group
  • Marken
  • UPS Logistics
  • UPS Mail Innovations
  • UPS Professional Solutions
  • Roadie
  • UPS i-parcel
Websiteups.com
Footnotes / references
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United Parcel Service (UPS) is an American company that transports packages. It is the largest package delivery company in the world. UPS delivers more than 14 million packages a day to more than 200 countries. It is based in Sandy Springs, Georgia, USA. The company started in 1936 when several smaller companies merged and took the new name. It was owned by employees until 1999 when it offered stock to outsiders.

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The company uses brown uniforms and delivery trucks. The company trademarked the color so other delivery companies cannot use a brown logo.

UPS Airlines is a part of UPS that handles the transportation of packages over long distances and between countries. UPS has almost 300 airplanes in its fleet.

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  1. "United Parcel Service, Inc. 2024 Annual Report". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. February 18, 2025. Retrieved February 19, 2025.
  2. Taylor, Charlie (May 3, 2017). "Parcel Motel owner Nightline acquired by delivery firm UPS". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on May 4, 2017. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
  3. "UPS to Acquire Ireland-based Nightline Logistics GROUP". nightline.ie. Archived from the original on May 21, 2017. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
  4. "Exhibit 21 - Subsidiaries Of United Parcel Service, Inc. As of December 31, 2017". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Archived from the original on August 7, 2018. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
  5. "UPS Completes Acquisition Of Marken". Marken.com. December 22, 2016. Archived from the original on August 7, 2018. Retrieved August 7, 2018.