UPS and USPS say: If you can't beat 'em

UPS and USPS say: If you can’t beat ’em

Submitted: The Two Sides Team December 27, 2012

Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe and UPS Chairman and CEO Scott Davis today announced a partnership the two organizations say is designed to offer better service to customers, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and optimize operational efficiencies.
December 6 2012

Federal Daily

Weve named our partnership Blue and Brown Make Green, said Donahoe. By working together, the Postal Service and UPS are able to reduce costs, serve our customers better and achieve sustainability goals, such as reducing our carbon footprints.

The partnership gives a name to the working relationship the two organizations have been cultivating over the last several years , each by leveraging the strengths of the other: USPS is the worlds largest mail service, and UPS the worlds largest package delivery company.

Through that relationship, the Postal Service, for example, delivers many of UPS’s packages through its last mile network. UPS also uses the Postal Services parcel return service, which allows UPS customers to drop returnable merchandise at post offices for UPS retrieval and return to retailers. And UPS, for its part, carries millions of pounds of USPS letter and package mail nationally and internationally via its air and ground transportation networks.

Our working relationship with UPS supports the Postal Services goal to deliver mail at the lowest cost with minimal impact on the environment, Donahoe said. Its a great template for how posts and private enterprises can work together to better serve customers, the planet and the bottom line.

The heads of the two companies announced the partnership in a video released today.