With record online sales and the holidays around the corner, NBC’s Vicky Nguyen reports for TODAY with a first-hand look at the largestUPShub where employees are working around-the-clock... · Today, nearly two-thirds of our volume moves through an automated hub, which enables us to get packages more quickly and nimbly to our customers while reducing delays. 🤝 · A UPS freight hubhandles the sorting and routing of massive package volumes, typically involving air and ground logistics infrastructure. In contrast, a customer center serves individuals and small businesses for drop-offs, pick-ups, and basic shipping needs. · Typically, two million packages go through the facility, but during the peak season that number, Stanchfield said, nearly doubles. “So you do the math, that’s a lot of packages going out of this facility each day,” Stanchfield said. · Learn about UPS 2024 peak season surcharges, key shipping cost factors, and strategies to manage expenses during the holidayshipping rush. · A shortened shoppingseason in 2024 could mean more in-store purchases, leaving UPS and FedEx with plenty of capacity for on-time deliveries. · In this slide from a recent UPS Investor Day presentation, you can see what’s going on: building new larger hubs, automating existing hubs, and eliminating those whose capacity will be taken on by the larger and more efficient facilities.
· Today, nearly two-thirds of our volume moves through an automated hub, which enables us to get packages more quickly and nimbly to our customers while reducing delays. 🤝
· A UPS freight hubhandles the sorting and routing of massive package volumes, typically involving air and ground logistics infrastructure. In contrast, a customer center serves individuals and small businesses for drop-offs, pick-ups, and basic shipping needs.
· Typically, two million packages go through the facility, but during the peak season that number, Stanchfield said, nearly doubles. “So you do the math, that’s a lot of packages going out of this facility each day,” Stanchfield said. · Learn about UPS 2024 peak season surcharges, key shipping cost factors, and strategies to manage expenses during the holidayshipping rush. · A shortened shoppingseason in 2024 could mean more in-store purchases, leaving UPS and FedEx with plenty of capacity for on-time deliveries. · In this slide from a recent UPS Investor Day presentation, you can see what’s going on: building new larger hubs, automating existing hubs, and eliminating those whose capacity will be taken on by the larger and more efficient facilities.
· Learn about UPS 2024 peak season surcharges, key shipping cost factors, and strategies to manage expenses during the holidayshipping rush.
· A shortened shoppingseason in 2024 could mean more in-store purchases, leaving UPS and FedEx with plenty of capacity for on-time deliveries.
· In this slide from a recent UPS Investor Day presentation, you can see what’s going on: building new larger hubs, automating existing hubs, and eliminating those whose capacity will be taken on by the larger and more efficient facilities.
