You Won't Have to Wait Until Monday for Deliveries Anymore

UPS announced that it will start delivering on Saturdays and will add jobs in the process
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The United Parcel Service (a.k.a. UPS) announced this week that it will no longer be taking the whole weekend off. Beginning April 15, the brown-clad delivery service will begin making deliveries on Saturdays in 15 metropolitan areas. Saturday service is expected to be expanded to 4,700 locales by November and to 5,800 by 2018.

While the company plans to increase automation in 70 of its warehouses to meet the demands of the added day of delivery, UPS also says that it will be hiring as many 6,000 new employees, an increase by 1.7% to its domestic operations. As many as 4,000 of those jobs are expected to be created this year.

You may recall that UPS has also been testing out drone deliveries. It's unclear whether they expect the drones to work on Saturdays.

Even Less Reason to Shop In-Store

The move comes as a result of the increase in online shopping. UPS expects that by 2019 more than half of all its deliveries will be made to home residences. In fact, this latest change in service seems overdue, as both FedEx and the US Postal Service already make deliveries on Saturdays. The latter also makes Amazon Prime Sunday deliveries in some markets.

What do you think readers? Are you more likely to use UPS for your deliveries as a result of this change? Will you skip a trip in-store if you can get weekend delivery? Let us know in the comments below.


Stephen Slaybaugh
Contributing Writer

Stephen has been writing for such national and regional publications as The Village Voice, Paste, The Agit Reader, and The Big Takeover for 20 years. He covered consumer electronics and technology for DealNews from 2013 to 2018.
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DeletedUser169775
Looking forward to this, as currently only Fedex delivers on saturday's in my area.
itsajyaknow
Ups always delivers on Saturday?
boilers
oh, the horror of waiting! :)