UPS delivers anything, to anyone, anywhere, literally. We deliver to over 200 countries around the world. Our first international shipment in 1975, was to Canada. Because UPS had not yet been granted a license to drive delivery trucks on Canadian highways, drivers used taxi cabs painted UPS brown. Fast forward to 2008; just two short years ago we opened a UPS Air-hub in Shanghai.
UPS has delivered packages using:
bicycles,
In the spring of 2010, 200 new hybrid electric vehicles HEVs hit the streets in seven major cities across the United States.
Compared to conventional trucks, UPS’s 250 HEV trucks save 220,000 gallons of fuel annually, resulting in an emissions reduction of more than two metric tons of CO2 each year.And, on July 12, 2010 UPS will expand its carbon neutral shipping to 35 other countries and territories across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Millions of UPS customers will have the option of paying a small fee to calculate and offset the carbon emissions associated with their shipment.
Not only is UPS taking delivery vehicles off of the road, but it is also taking managers off of the road. Management training is now, more than ever before, being done from the manager’s office.
Using the same principles of distance education that we as Ed. D. students are using, UPS delivers updates via “webex”’ training. For example, managers at UPS will be trained on proper utilization of “our” MetLife disability website this week. By simply logging on to the training site at https://metlife.webex.com/, managers can follow along with synchronous training.
Another dollar saved…….and the world is a little greener…..
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