Aside from the very popular FedEx, UPS is also considered as one of the largest known international courier company in the world, having known to deliver more than 15 million packages a day to 6.1 million customers in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. With these, UPS is directly competing with other international and domestic courier companies, one being FedEx. Major domestic (United States) competitors include United States Postal Service (USPS), and FedEx.

Competing market In addition to domestic competition such as USPS and FedEx, UPS competes with a variety of international operators, including Canada Post, TNT N.V., Deutsche Post (owner of DHL), Royal Mail, Japan Post, India Post and many other regional carriers, national postal services and air cargo handlers. However, according to several courier philippines companies, UPS’ earliest competitor was the Distributional Overnight Western National Service (DOWNS), a service with roots in the pony express that has since disappeared. Historically, the bulk of UPS’ competition came from inexpensive ground-based delivery services, such as Parcel Post (USPS).

But in 1998 FedEx expanded into the ground parcel delivery market by acquiring RPS (originally Roadway Package System) and rebranding it as FedEx Ground in 2000. In 2003 DHL expanded its US operations by acquiring Airborne Express, significantly increasing its presence in the United States, and adding more competition in the ground delivery market. In response to growing competition in the domestic market, according to courier philippines companies, UPS partnered with the US Postal Service to offer UPS Mail Innovations, a program that allows UPS to pick up mail and transfer it to a USPS center, or destination delivery unit (DDU), for final distribution. This process is also known as zone skipping, long used by Parcel Consolidators.

More recently, the continued growth of online shopping, combined with increasing awareness of the role transportation (including package delivery) has on the environment, has contributed to the rise of emerging competition from niche carriers or rebranded incumbents. For instance, the USPS claims “greener delivery” of parcels on the assumption that USPS letter carriers deliver to each US address, six days a week anyway, and therefore offer the industry’s lowest fuel consumption per delivery.

Other carriers, like ParcelPool.com, which specializes in residential package delivery to APO-FPO addresses, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and other US Territories, arose in response to increased demand from catalog retailers and online e-tailers for low-cost residential delivery services closely matching service standards normally associated with more expensive expedited parcel delivery.

According to courier philippines companies, although competition is high, and the market became more crowded than ever before, UPS still stood as one of the biggest courier company in the world, operating from the western territories, to Asian countries including Taiwan, Philippines, Hong Kong, and Singapore. For more information visit to our site at lbcexpress.com

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