A store name must communicate much more than the location of a business, especially when it's re-branding. That's one of the many lessons United Parcel Services Inc. learned when it acquired Mail ...

United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) has agreed to buy US Office Products Co.'s Mail Boxes Etc. unit, which serves retail customers and small businesses at 4,300 packaging and shipping centers. "This is a ...

ADDISON, Ill. (AP) — It looks like a torture chamber for cardboard and bubble wrap. At a lab in suburban Chicago, UPS Inc. tests new packaging designs by dropping, shaking and smashing boxes with ...

United Parcel Service Inc. agreed to buy retail shipping franchiser Mail Boxes Etc. in a bid to capture a bigger share of the growing business in home and small-office shipments. San Diego-based Mail ...

As e-commerce explodes, the shipper teams with Bubble Wrap's inventor to create a "packaging innovation center." Cardboard boxes may never be the same. Ben Fox Rubin was a senior reporter for CNET ...

The UPS Store has launched a new product, which it calls "luggage boxes," marketed as a product to enable customers to get out of paying airline baggage fees by shipping their possessions ahead of ...

It looks like a torture chamber for cardboard and bubble wrap. At a lab in suburban Chicago, UPS Inc. tests new packaging designs by dropping, shaking and smashing boxes with brutal-looking equipment.

ADDISON, Ill. - It looks like a torture chamber for cardboard and bubble wrap. At a lab in suburban Chicago, UPS Inc. tests new packaging designs by dropping, shaking and smashing boxes with ...