PITTSBURGH — United Parcel Service, Inc. has announced it will offer Saturday delivery, joining FedEx and the United States Postal Service.
The company began testing the Saturday delivery program in 2016 in Atlanta, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. The program will expand in April to 15 additional cities, including Pittsburgh.
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Nearly 4,700 cities and towns are expected to be covered by November, in time for the holiday season, according to UPS. That number is projected to increase to more than 5,800 in 2018.
"The time-in-transit improvement is one of the largest in the company's 109-year-history. This planned expansion is expected to create more than 6,000 new UPS jobs nationwide when operations are fully implemented by the end of 2018," UPS said in a news release.
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