UPS forecasts record holiday delivery of 750m packages
UPS has revealed that it plans to deliver more than 750m packages globally over this year’s holiday season. In a statement issued yesterday (26 October), UPS said that this delivery volume would be around 5% up on last year.
Of the 21 holiday delivery days before Christmas, added UPS, 17 are expected to exceed 30m delivered packages.
To handle the expect demand, UPS said that that it completed four new and expanded facility projects to create about 1 million square feet of additional automated operations space in 2017. Both package sorting and delivery capacity is increasing by about 6% over last year. The company has also announced that it plans to employ 95,000 temporary seasonal workers this year.
