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UPS Prepared Too Well for Holiday Rush and Paid the Price [1]

Mary Schlangenstein and Michael Sasso
Business Week
January 26, 2015
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After missing millions of deliveries on Christmas in 2013, United Parcel Service Inc.(UPS:US [3]) promised it would do better next time. It hired thousands more workers to ensure it could handle a deluge of shipments on its busiest days.

The improvements worked, maybe too well.

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[2] http://www.businessweek.com/news/2015-01-23/ups-says-2014-earnings-lower-than-forecast-on-weak-u-dot-s-dot-market
[3] http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=UPS:US
[4] http://www.tdu.org/issues/ups