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UPS has announced new rates for most U.S. services effective Jan. 5, 2004. UPS commercial ground services will increase 1.9% with U.S. air and UPS Worldwide Express services increasing an average of 2.9%. The premium for packages and letters delivered to residential addresses will rise from $1.15 to $1.40.

UPS also will introduce a $1.00 delivery surcharge to commercial shipments headed to more remote ZIP codes. These ZIP codes are the same as those covered by the current residential delivery area surcharge, which was first applied in 1999 and remains at $1.75. The majority of UPS’s accessorial charges stay the same.

A prominent international scientific society has awarded UPS the 2003 INFORMS Prize for integrating operations research and managerial decision-making.

The Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) said it was honoring UPS because the company had so embraced the application of operational research and managerial science as to affect the overall success of the entire organization.

HSN has engaged UPS in a multi-year agreement to streamline and re-engineer its entire fulfillment and supply chain operations.

“HSN is committed to providing our customers an exceptional shopping experience from start to finish, and UPS is helping us reach new standards of excellence through its broad capabilities,” said Mark Ethier, HSN executive vice president of operations. “At no incremental cost to our customers, we will significantly improve our level of service through faster, more reliable delivery.”

Announcing their retirements from UPS at year’s end were Thomas H. Weidemeyer, chief operating officer and president of UPS Airlines, and Joseph R. Moderow, general counsel, corporate secretary and head of global public affairs and public relations. Weidemeyer and Moderow also serve on the UPS Board of Directors as well as the UPS Management Committee.

Named to succeed Weidemeyer as chief operating officer and president of UPS Airlines is John Beystehner, a 32-year company veteran who currently serves as senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing. Replacing Moderow as general counsel and corporate secretary will be Allen Hill, a 27-year UPSer who is currently vice president heading the company’s legal department.

Succeeding Beystehner as senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing will be Kurt Kuehn, currently vice president in charge of investor relations.