IV 

110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 375 

Honoring United Parcel Service and its 100 years of commitment and 

leadership in the United States. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 3, 2007 

Mr. WESTMORELAND (for himself, Mr. KINGSTON, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, 

Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. PRICE of Georgia, 

Mr. LINDER, Mr. DEAL of Georgia, Mr. GINGREY, Mr. BARROW, and Mr. 

SCOTT of Georgia) submitted the following resolution; which was referred 

to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 

RESOLUTION 

Honoring United Parcel Service and its 100 years of 

commitment and leadership in the United States. 

Whereas United Parcel Service (in this resolution referred to 

as ‘‘UPS’’) provides solutions that connect the flow of 

goods, funds, and information in the United States to 

more than 200 countries through its expansive transportation network, thus truly synchronizing global commerce; 

Whereas, in 1907, James E. ‘‘Jim’’ Casey borrowed $100 

from a friend to found the American Messenger Company 

in Seattle, Washington; 

Whereas Jim and his partner, Claude Ryan, focused on providing the best service and lowest rates to launch what 


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would become the world’s largest package delivery service; 

Whereas, in 1913, the American Messenger Company acquired its first delivery car, a Model T Ford, merged with 

competitor Evert ‘‘Mac’’ McCabe, and selected the name 

Merchants Parcel Delivery; 

Whereas, in 1919, Merchants Parcel Delivery made its first 

expansion beyond Seattle to Oakland, California, and 

adopted its present name, United Parcel Service; 

Whereas, in 1929, UPS became the first package delivery 

company to provide air service; 

Whereas, during the Second World War, UPS still continued 

to grow by expanding employment opportunities to, and 

capitalizing on the talents of, women in the workforce; 

Whereas, in 1975, UPS forged the ‘‘Golden Link’’, becoming 

the first package delivery company to serve every address 

in the continental United States and began its first operations outside the United States in Ontario, Canada; 

Whereas, in 1982, UPS established next day air service operations from Louisville, Kentucky, its hub airport; 

Whereas, in 1992, UPS was delivering to more than 200 

countries and territories, touching 4,000,000,000 of the 

world’s 6,000,000,000 people; 

Whereas, in 1993, the UPS Logistics Group, known today as 

UPS Supply Chain Solutions, was established to provide 

global supply chain management solutions; 

Whereas, in 1999, UPS adopted a new corporate charter, expanding the company’s view of its role of enabling global 

commerce and became a public company, in what at the 


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time was the largest initial public offering in the history 

of the New York Stock Exchange; 

Whereas, in 2001, UPS acquired Mail Boxes Etc., a worldwide franchisor of independently owned and operated 

shipping centers and named the newly formed company 

The UPS Store in 2003; 

Whereas, in 2004, UPS acquired Menlo Worldwide Forwarding and, in 2005, purchased the Overnite Corporation to continue serving the diverse logistics needs of its 

customers; 

Whereas UPS has earned numerous awards for its outstanding business practices, including the following most 

recent accolades: the 2006 Harris Interactive RQSM 

survey ranking UPS as the Nation’s top company for 

people’s ‘‘trust in the company’’; America’s most socially 

responsible company by Fortune magazine, Hispanic 

Business magazine; as one of the top companies in the 

world for Hispanics in the workforce; Black Enterprise 

magazine’s list of the ‘‘40 Best Companies for Diversity’’; 

and the Clean Air Excellence Award of the Environmental Protection Agency that cited UPS’s alternative 

fuel program under which the UPS ‘‘Green Fleet’’ recently passed the 100,000,000 mile mark; 

Whereas UPS plays a significant role in philanthropic leadership in the United States through such activities as the 

following: raising $59,300,000 in 2006 for the United 

Way and being recognized as a top donor of the United 

Way for 7 straight years; the UPS Foundation: the 

Annie E. Casey Foundation; Casey Family Services; 

Casey Family Programs; neighbor-to-neighbor volunteerism (in which UPS employees organize food drives, 

work in soup kitchens, mentor troubled youth and help 


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to improve impoverished communities across the United 

States); partnering with the United Negro College Fund 

and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund; UPS Community Internship Program; 

Whereas UPS employs over 427,000 employees, operates the 

world’s largest package delivery network, operates the 

world’s eighth largest airline, utilizes almost 92,000 vehicles, offers traditional and nontraditional financial services and insurance products through UPS Capital, extends UPS’s capabilities to help customers move goods of 

all sizes through UPS FreightSM, and offers an ever-expanding array of supply chain services that include UPS 

Mail Innovations; 

Whereas, over the past 100 years, UPS has gone through 

many transformations, growing from a small messenger 

company to a leading provider of air, ocean, ground, and 

electronic services while remaining ever true to its humble origins; and 

Whereas UPS maintains its reputation for integrity, reliability, employee ownership, and customer service: Now, 

therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) recognizes United Parcel Service’s role in 

3 the global transportation system as the world’s larg4 est package delivery company; and 

5 (2) celebrates United Parcel Service’s 100th an6 niversary. 

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