UPS is the world's largest package delivery company and a global leader in supply chain services, offering an extensive range of options for synchronizing the movement of goods, information and funds. Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., UPS serves more than 200 countries and territories worldwide and operates the largest franchise shipping chain, The UPS Store™.
The UPS network is based on a ‘hub and spoke model.’ The company operates centers that feed packages to hubs where the packages are sorted and forwarded onto their destinations.
Qualifications to work in a UPS hub as a package handler include:
- availability to work three and a half to five hours per day, five days a week
- availability to work varying shifts, additional hours or overtime depending on service needs
- ability to lift, lower, push, pull, leverage and manipulate equipment and/or packages weighing up to 70 pounds and assist in moving packages weighing up to 150 pounds
Over the years, UPS has been voted one of the ’50 Best Places to Launch a Career’ by BusinessWeek magazine and one of the ’50 Best Companies for Minorities’ by Fortune magazine. The UPS shield is one of the most recognized and admired brands around the world.