UPS offering Saturday ground delivery and Saturday pickup services in US cities

UPS has announced that it is now offering Saturday ground delivery and Saturday pickup services in select US cities, and the coverage is set to expand significantly in the coming months. In a statement issued today (3 April), the company said: “UPS began testing the Saturday delivery program in Atlanta, Philadelphia and Los Angeles in 2016. Further expansion is underway in these cities and broader deployment begins in April to 15 additional metropolitan areas including New York, Chicago and Boston. By November – in time for the holiday shipping season – nearly 4,700 cities and towns are planned to be covered. In 2018, coverage will expand to more than 5,800 cities and towns.”

UPS added: “Saturday ground pickups will enable online retail shippers utilizing a ship-from-store strategy to achieve Monday deliveries for the vast majority of the U.S. population.”