"Will Call" Option Set for Other Parts of City;
Service Restored to Mississippi and Alabama
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 19, 2005 - Three weeks to the day that Hurricane
Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, UPS (NYSE:UPS) today resumed service to
parts of New Orleans' Central Business District and sections of the French
Quarter.
Outside New Orleans, UPS now has reopened 21 of its 22 affected buildings
in the region and restored delivery service to every ZIP code in Mississippi
and Alabama. The company also has resumed daily air flights into and out of
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.
For those sections of New Orleans where it is still impossible to make regular
deliveries, UPS on Monday opened a "hold-for-pickup" site for customers
who want to retrieve packages on their own. The site, established just outside
New Orleans at a UPS building in the suburb of Metairie, La., will accept and
hold Next Day AirŪ and 2nd Day AirŪ packages for customers who wish
to retrieve them. The building is located at 4502 Firestone Rd. Instructions
for shipping to the site were posted at ups.com
today.
"I am deeply proud of the thousands of UPSers who have worked tirelessly
over the past weeks to restore service to their communities in these three
states," said Mike Eskew, UPS's chairman and CEO. "The effort,
and sacrifices, have been substantial. But our customers expected nothing less,
and we will continue pushing to extend service throughout the entire region
as soon as possible."
UPS's flexible intermodal delivery network
allowed it to localize the hurricane's operational impact from the start
and to maintain regular operations elsewhere throughout the country.
UPS is the world's largest package delivery company and a global leader
in supply chain services, offering an extensive range of options for synchronizing
the movement of goods, information and funds. Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga.,
UPS serves more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. UPS's stock trades
on the New York Stock Exchange (UPS) and the company can be found on the Web
at UPS.com.
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