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NEW YORK -- UPS expects to deliver 527 million packages between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, surpassing last year's record high by 10 percent. The world's largest package delivery company estimates 28 million of those will be delivered on Thursday, Dec. 20 -- projected to be the busiest day of the ...

By Lynn Adler FedEx Corp. said Monday it plans to hire 20,000 seasonal workers, the same as last year, to handle holiday shipping volume that it expects will be up more than 13 percent. An ongoing increase in e-commerce and last-minute orders amid a slow-growing economy will mean more deliveries for ...

In the last decade, 6,600 Muslims have filed complaints with the federal government, claiming that their employers discriminated against them because of their beliefs. But Ashraf Sarandah's allegations against the United Parcel Service of America go way beyond the typical religious discrimination charges, ...

In anticipation of an increase in the number of holiday packages that U.S. consumers expect to ship this year, parcel-delivery giant UPS says it plans on hiring 55,000 seasonal workers to help keep pace with demand. The shipping company anticipates delivering more than 120 million packages worldwide this year ...

Of all the Steve Jobs encomiums that accompanied the death of the former Apple CEO, this may be the greatest one yet. Police say that Kentucky-based UPS worker Raylon Brooks was so eager to get his hands on the new iPhone 4S he broke the cardinal rule of professional mail delivery -- thou shalt not open a ...

Talk about impatience. According to a report by Minnesota television outlet KARE-TV, a Minnetonka woman pulled a rifle on a United Parcel Service deliveryman when he was late with her delivery. Sandra Jarrett was arrested by Minnetonka police in the incident. ...

If corporations are people, as some politicians famously claim, then should they be expected to act like it? Not according to one UPS supervisor in Kentucky, should the charges against him be proven to be true. When 46-year-old Dona Kerger approached her superiors at her Kentucky UPS branch about finding a ...

It's not an easy time to be in the mail delivery business. The woes of the U.S. Postal Service have been well and widely documented, but the sector as a whole has been battered like few other by the digital age. With the need of its primary service -- the delivery of mail -- being rendered obsolete by e-mail, ...

Despite the fact that gas is nudging close to $4 per gallon, the delivery industry is still going strong. In fact, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, delivery and other truck drivers make up one of the largest occupational groups in the U.S., holding 3.2 million jobs. Overall, job opportunities ...