United Parcel Service and Related Topics

FedEx

American multinational conglomerate holding company focused on transportation, e-commerce and services based in Memphis, Tennessee.

FedEx's first van displayed at the FedEx World Headquarters

A Federal Express McDonnell Douglas MD-11 in 1995

A FedEx Express Boeing 727 parked at Fairbanks International Airport. It was donated to the University of Alaska Fairbanks

The FedEx-sponsored No. 11 car at the 2012 Kobalt Tools 400, driven by Denny Hamlin

FedEx vehicle illegally parked in a Washington, DC bike lane in January 2020

Since then, FedEx also started FedEx Ground, FedEx Office (originally known as Kinko's), FedEx Supply Chain, FedEx Freight, and various other services across multiple subsidiaries, often meant to respond to its main competitor, UPS.

United States Postal Service

Independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, including its insular areas and associated states.

A Grumman LLV, the USPS’ main type of delivery truck

A fleet of post office vehicles at the James Griffith Station in Spring Branch, Houston

United States Postal Service surplus/deficit

USPS Terminal Annex building in Los Angeles

The Food and Drug Administration inspects packages for illegal drug shipments

Former Tyvek envelope design for Express Mail before July 28, 2013

USPS Dodge Caravan used for residential delivery in Omaha, Nebraska

USPS-operated minivan serving in the LLV's role

Packages awaiting inspection at the International Mail Facility in JFK airport

Mail flow through national infrastructure

Historic main post office in Tomah, Wisconsin

A typical post office station in the Spring Branch area of Houston, Texas

A combined Post Office, Customs House, and Federal Court House in Galveston, Texas

Floating post office, Halibut Cove, Alaska

A 24-hour Automated Postal Center kiosk inside the Webster, Texas main post office

A former United States Postal Service Boeing 727-200 aircraft at Miami International Airport in 1999

USPS contractor-driven semi-trailer truck seen near Mendota, California

1998 United States Postal Service Ford Windstar, showing the larger driver's side door

A Rural Letter Carrier from Fort Myers, Florida

The Post Office has exclusive access to letter boxes marked "U.S. Mail" and personal letterboxes in the United States, but has to compete against private package delivery services, such as United Parcel Service, FedEx, and Amazon.

Louisville International Airport

Civil-military airport in Louisville in Jefferson County, Kentucky.

UPS Worldport Air Hub at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport

It has no regularly-scheduled international passenger flights, but it is a port of entry, as it handles numerous international cargo flights through the United Parcel Service's worldwide air hub through its airline, often referred to as UPS Worldport.

Louisville, Kentucky

Largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States.

Louisville's founder, George Rogers Clark

View of 2nd Street and Main Street, Louisville, in 1846

Entrance to Fourth Street Live!, featuring marquee of the Hard Rock Cafe

Hilly terrain blankets the southwest part of the city.

Highlands district, specifically the Bonnycastle neighborhood

Map of racial distribution in Louisville, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people:

19th-century bourbon bottle. One-third of all bourbon comes from Louisville.

Left to right, BB&T Building, 400 West Market, National City Tower, and the Humana Building in downtown Louisville

2018 Kentucky Derby Festival Thunder Over Louisville fireworks display, seen from the Indiana side of the Ohio River

A giant baseball bat adorns the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory.

Muhammad Ali Center, alongside I64 on Louisville's riverfront

The Kentucky Center in Downtown Louisville

Louisville Slugger Field, where the Louisville Bats play

The Kentucky Derby in progress at Churchill Downs

Louisville Waterfront Park exhibits rolling hills, spacious lawns and walking paths in the downtown area.

A section of the Louisville Loop bike and pedestrian trail

Louisville City Hall in downtown, built 1870–1873, is a blend of Italianate styles characteristic of Neo-Renaissance.

Grawemeyer Hall, modeled after the Roman Pantheon, is the University of Louisville's main administrative building.

Medical Office Plaza on the University of Louisville's downtown Health Sciences Campus

Kennedy Interchange ("Spaghetti Junction"), prior to the Ohio River Bridges Project

Toonerville II Trolleys provided transportation in downtown Louisville until late 2014, before being replaced by LouLift.

Completed in 1860, the Louisville Water Tower is the oldest water tower in the U.S.

Distances to each of Louisville's sister cities on the downtown light post

Muhammad Ali International Airport, Louisville's main commercial airport, hosts UPS's worldwide hub.

DHL

German logistics company providing courier, package delivery and express mail service, which is a division of the German logistics firm Deutsche Post.

Traditional DHL subsidiary in Steinfurt (Germany) sharing premises and logistics with Deutsche Post

DHL boat in Amsterdam, carrying DHL delivery bicycles on board

DHL advertising on the Tren de la Costa light railway, Buenos Aires

DHL-colored Team Penske Porsche RS Spyder LMP2 racing cars of Penske Racing

A Jordan Grand Prix Formula One car with a DHL paint scheme at the US Grand Prix at the Indianapolis track.

Nevertheless, the domestic market was extremely profitable, and DHL was the third largest courier behind FedEx and UPS.

Sandy Springs, Georgia

City in northern Fulton County, Georgia and an inner ring suburb of Atlanta.

Northside Tower, a downtown landmark located in City Springs at Sandy Springs Place and Roswell Road

The skyline of Pill Hill in the Sandy Springs portion of Perimeter Center

Bull Sluice Lake, located in Morgan Falls Overlook Park

Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area

Hewlett Lodge: Headquarters for the Chattahoochee National Recreation Area

Island Ford unit of the Chattahoochee National Recreation Area

East Palisades at Chattahoochee National Recreation Area

North Springs MARTA Station overlooking GA 400

It is the site of several corporate headquarters, including UPS, Newell Brands, Inspire Brands, Focus Brands, Cox Enterprises, and Mercedes-Benz USA's corporate offices.

The UPS Store

The UPS Store (formerly Mail Boxes Etc.) is a subsidiary of United Parcel Service which provides, according to its website, shipping, shredding, printing, fax, passport photos, personal and business mailboxes, and notary services.

Package delivery

Delivery of shipping containers, parcels, or high value mail as single shipments.

A part of the FedEx Express fleet in Memphis Airport, its main hub

Transport packaging needs to be matched to its logistics system. Packages designed for controlled shipments of uniform pallet loads may not be suited to mixed shipments with express carriers.

United Parcel Service had its origins in this era, initially as a private courier service.

FedEx Express Boeing 777F taxiing at Tokio-Narita International Airport

Air cargo

Any property carried or to be carried in an aircraft.

A Douglas C-54 during the Berlin blockade

A FedEx Boeing 777F, a UPS Boeing 747-400F and a DHL tail

The catalysts for the renewed growth in the sector were the express parcel carriers, typified by FedEx, DHL, TNT and UPS, and changes in practices in the manufacturing sector.