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 transpor-
tation network, thus truly synchronizing global com-
merce; 
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 pro-
viding the best service and lowest rates to launch what 
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would become the world’s largest package delivery serv-
ice; 
Whereas, in 1913, the American Messenger Company ac-
quired 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 oper-
ations outside the United States in Ontario, Canada; 
Whereas, in 1982, UPS established next day air service oper-
ations 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, ex-
panding 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 world-
wide 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 For-
warding and, in 2005, purchased the Overnite Corpora-
tion to continue serving the diverse logistics needs of its 
customers; 
Whereas UPS has earned numerous awards for its out-
standing 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 Environ-
mental Protection Agency that cited UPS’s alternative 
fuel program under which the UPS ‘‘Green Fleet’’ re-
cently passed the 100,000,000 mile mark; 
Whereas UPS plays a significant role in philanthropic leader-
ship 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 
vol-
unteerism (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 In-
ternship 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 vehi-
cles, offers traditional and nontraditional financial serv-
ices and insurance products through UPS Capital, ex-
tends UPS’s capabilities to help customers move goods of 
all sizes through UPS FreightSM, and offers an ever-ex-
panding 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 hum-
ble origins; and 
Whereas UPS maintains its reputation for integrity, reli-
ability, employee ownership, and customer service: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes United Parcel Service’s role in 
the global transportation system as the world’s larg-
est package delivery company; and 
(2) celebrates United Parcel Service’s 100th an-
niversary. 
Æ 
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