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COPYRIGHT 2004 Ziff Davis Media Inc.
United Parcel Service expects a 2"x3" label to save $600 million a year. How can such a small label reap such a big benefit?
UPS is investing $600 million in software and hardware to analyze historical shipping trends, input actual shipping information, and use mapping software to automatically create daily delivery routes. All this information--the purpose of the new label--promises to improve the efficiency of UPS workers who sort, load and deliver 13.8 million packages each business day.
"This sounds like a fairly minor thing...[but] it's a...
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