At a lab in suburban Chicago, UPS Inc. tests new packaging designs by dropping, shaking and smashing boxes with brutal-looking equipment. The point is to see what type of packaging can withstand ...

UPS management hopes that shippers will be more efficient when they pack boxes, so as not to be charged more under the new price system. UPS is acknowledging that it made a mistake in the past.

a chain of 4,300 packing and shipping centers ... Amos said that while Mail Boxes will continue to offer choices between carriers like UPS, FedEx and Airborne Express , "the relationships may ...

This Dec. 11, 2012 photo shows a box getting a 900-pound hug at the compression table at the UPS Package Design and Testing Lab in Addison, Ill. UPS tests new packaging designs by dropping ...

Now a crop of start-ups is focused on making e-commerce ... Other newcomers, meanwhile, offer reusable plastic mailing boxes, compostable packaging and algae-ink shipping labels.

Starting Monday, the majority of Mail Boxes Etc. locations, including all 14 in Western New York, will be renamed UPS Stores and offer lower shipping prices with that carrier. The prices at the ...

United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) has agreed to buy US Office Products Co.'s Mail Boxes Etc. unit, which serves retail customers and small businesses at 4,300 packaging and shipping centers.

We will continue our high standard of customer service through a wide range of resources that are available to our customers, ...

UPS has ended a contract with the U.S. Postal Service and the termination means changes for some people with post office boxes. Under the change, UPS Sure Post packages are now only being ...

At a lab in suburban Chicago, UPS Inc. tests new packaging designs by dropping, shaking and smashing boxes with brutal-looking equipment. The point is to see what type of packaging can withstand ...