UPS Mail Innovations Announces International Mail Services
UPS Mail Innovations, the business mail services unit of UPS (NYSE: UPS), today announced its international mail services to help U.S. businesses more quickly and efficiently move mail destined for international locations.
Through relationships with a portfolio of global postal authorities, UPS Mail Innovations processes U.S.-outbound business mail and transports it to postal authorities for final delivery to addresses in more than 200 countries.
UPS Mail Innovations now offers international mail services thanks in large part to its April 2004 acquisition of the assets of OMNIsort International Inc. (OSI). Through the addition of OSI’s operations in New York and California, UPS Mail Innovations can process and transport U.S.-outbound international mail within 24 hours of receipt from customers.
Time Warner Book Group, a customer since 1999, relies on UPS Mail Innovations to forward an array of customer-focused communications, including invoices and catalogs, to overseas locations.
“The fast and efficient service we receive from UPS Mail Innovations has helped us to establish a reliable international presence,” said Jim Boughman, manager of corporate operations, Time Warner Book Group. “The improved transit times have resulted in not only improved customer satisfaction for us but also reduced expenses.”
With international mail services, UPS Mail Innovations handles both “priority” and “economy” classes of international mail. By relying on UPS Mail Innovations for the processing, sorting, bagging and tagging of this mail, customers can realize substantial savings on international postage. Additionally, UPS Mail Innovations’ time-in-transit for “economy” mail typically is one to four days faster than other international mail service providers.
“International mail is a critical component of our customers’ global business strategies,” said Steve McNutt, head of UPS Mail Innovations. “Because we have relationships with a variety of postal agencies around the world, we’re able to offer customers more advantageous transit times and choices for delivering U.S.-outbound international mail.”
UPS Mail Innovations also provides domestic U.S. mail logistics through its work-share relationship with the U.S. Postal Service. Through Expedited Mail Services, UPS Mail Innovations expedites flats, mail that weighs less than one pound and bound printed matter for businesses. UPS Mail Innovations offers convenience and reliability to customers by providing the upstream mail processes, such as pick-up, sorting, weighing, applying postage and inducting mail into the U.S. Postal Service for final delivery in the United States.
Typical customers who benefit from UPS Mail Innovations’ expanded portfolio of services are financial institutions, printing and publishing companies, educational institutions, manufacturers and associations, which rely heavily on mail services to send newsletters, price lists, product brochures and annual or financial reports. Already, UPS Mail Innovations is the leading postal logistics provider of U.S. shareholder communications to overseas countries.
UPS Mail Innovations operates 12 processing facilities in the United States and can be found on the Web at upsmailinnovations.com.
UPS is the world’s largest package delivery company and a global leader in supply chain services, offering an extensive range of options for synchronizing the movement of goods, information and funds. Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., UPS serves more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. UPS’s stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange (UPS), and the company can be found on the Web at UPS.com.
