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One year after launching a historic re-branding campaign, The UPS Store network has generated triple-digit growth in UPS shipping volume and added more than 300 new stores for a total of 3,300 locations. This achievement has led franchisor Mail Boxes Etc., Inc. and its parent company, UPS, to set a goal of expanding The UPS Store network to 5,000 locations in the United States by 2007, including innovative concepts in under-served areas such as urban neighborhoods, Free Enterprise Zones, college campuses and military bases.

United Parcel Service Inc. will soon be giving away tens of millions of dollars in free shipping as part of its settlement of a class-action lawsuit that alleged the company overcharged for package insurance over the past two decades.

Atlanta-based UPS is offering customers who are part of the lawsuit vouchers for UPS service — some worth up to USD8,000 apiece — if they can prove they bought the “excess value” package insurance from UPS going as far back as 1984.

Bob Stoffel, who helped lead the development of UPS’s global supply chain capabilities, has been promoted to the company’s Management Committee to succeed the retiring Joe Pyne as senior vice president for the Supply Chain Group. Stoffel, 48, currently is the head of UPS Supply Chain Solutions, the largest of the four business units that comprise the Supply Chain Group of UPS’s non-package companies. He oversaw the integration of 16 acquired companies that were added in recent years to UPS Supply Chain Solutions, and also led the unit to profitability.