- UPS My Choice Expands to 15 Additional
Countries
- UPS Access Point Locations worldwide to
nearly double in 2015
MISSISSAUGA, ON, Oct. 8, 2014 /CNW/ - UPS® (NYSE:UPS)
today announced it will launch UPS My Choice™ and the UPS Access
Point™ network in Canada, two of
the company's powerful services that work seamlessly together to
provide busy online shoppers and global retailers new personalized
solutions to manage residential package deliveries.
UPS My Choice, the customizable
online and mobile service where consumers choose delivery
preferences and more, will now be available to consumers in 15
additional countries, including Canada. UPS My
Choice is an industry-first innovation introduced in the
U.S. in 2011.
The UPS Access Point network, with the broadest integrated
cross-border footprint in Europe
will expand rapidly to cover all U.S. major urban markets during
2015. In Canada there are
currently more than 700 UPS Access Point locations. The UPS My
Choice and UPS Access Point combined service will be available in
Poland, Italy and Mexico later this month.
UPS My Choice
More
than 10 million U.S. consumers already use UPS My Choice to plan
for their deliveries when and where it is convenient
for them.
Consumers in Canada,
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Puerto
Rico, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom will be able to sign up for the
free service at ups.com/mychoice.
"UPS My Choice has received
outstanding customer response and continues to experience rapid
growth with one new consumer enrollment every six seconds," said
Alan Gershenhorn, UPS executive
vice-president and chief commercial officer. "Our mobile apps allow
users to access UPS My Choice with their smart phone in a
streamlined manner and offers several delivery and shipping
solutions that fit their needs."
UPS My Choice members receive
advanced delivery notifications informing them of the delivery
timing of each UPS package. Consumers also have the ability to
re-route eligible packages to another address or reschedule
deliveries for a future date before a UPS driver makes a delivery.
Consumers can also activate a vacation setting to have packages
held and delivered when they return home.
Unique to the UPS My Choice service, consumers only enroll one
time and never need to provide additional information to retailers
or UPS to begin taking control of their UPS deliveries.
"UPS My Choice and the UPS Access
Point network are a powerful duo that give e-tailers new solutions
for personalizing their customer's package delivery experience,"
Gershenhorn said. "UPS My Choice
status alerts have industry-leading email open rates and are
extremely valuable for retailers that want to extend special
customer offers or communications in addition to the shipment
delivery notification and confirmation. We have more than 375
shippers in the U.S. utilizing this feature, including some of the
most widely recognized names in retail."
UPS Access Point Locations
UPS My Choice members will have the ability to send
qualifying shipments directly to a UPS Access Point location as
their preferred delivery address. These local businesses, primarily
The UPS Store® locations, as well as convenience, drug
and electronic stores with evening and weekend hours, fit a
consumer's busy lifestyle. Consumers can also drop off pre-labelled
and prepaid packages at a UPS Access Point location during the
store's hours.
In Canada and seven European
countries there are more than 12,700 UPS Access Point locations.
UPS expects to have 20,000 locations in key markets throughout
Europe and the Americas by the end
of 2015.
About UPS
UPS (NYSE: UPS) is a global leader in
logistics, offering a broad range of solutions including
transporting packages and freight; facilitating international
trade, and deploying advanced technology to more efficiently manage
the world of business. Headquartered in Atlanta, UPS serves more than 220 countries
and territories worldwide. The company can be found on the web at
ups.com® and its corporate blog can be found at
blog.ups.com. To get UPS news direct, visit
pressroom.ups.com/RSS.
SOURCE UPS Canada Ltd.