Today is UPS's Peak Day; Only Santa Delivers More in One Day than UPS.ATLANTA -- UPS (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :UPS) expects to deliver more than 20 million packages today - its busiest shipping day of the year - when deliveries accelerate to 230 packages per second. Satellite Uplink Available Today: --Feed time: 3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. (All times Eastern) --SBS 6 Trans. 2 / Downlink Transmitting from a satellite to an earth station. Contrast with uplink. frequency 11749.5 V / Audio 6.20/6.80 discrete wide --Three five-minute loops of live-to-tape footage of this afternoon's volume speeding through UPS Worldport, the world's most technologically advanced package sorting facility located in Louisville, Ky. Visuals include: --3,000 packages per minute being sorted through 122 miles of high-speed conveyor belts conveyor belt One of various devices that provide mechanized movement of material, as in a factory. Conveyor belts are used in industrial applications and also on large farms, in warehousing and freight-handling, and in movement of raw materials. . --Aircraft loading holiday packages and retailer re-supplies - 10 million packages will be loaded on more than 600 planes on UPS's Peak Day. --Seasonal hires unloading packages from trucks and sorting packages into air cans. --UPS overhead scanning technology aiding the automated sorting of packages. UPS expects to deliver around 20 million packages by the end of today. The flurry of packages represents a sliver sliver in wool processing a continuous band of carded and combed wool which has not yet been twisted into yarn. of the 340 million packages UPS will safely speed to their destinations by Christmas Eve. Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : For the latest holiday facts and figures, packaging and shipping tips or the local angle, contact UPS Corporate Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most at (404) 828-7123 or visit www.pressroom.ups.com. |
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