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UPS Inc. will freeze its pension program for 70,000 nonunion employees in five years and replace it with 401(k) accounts, the nation’s largest package delivery company announced June 27. UPS, which said the move is a reaction to rising pension deficit, joins other large corporations that have phased out traditional retirement plans.

While it’s no secret that more and more people are shopping online, less obvious is understanding consumers’ buying habits and patterns — which has great relevance for the trucking industry.

UPS Inc. will place its first holiday-season surcharges on U.S. packages, as the world’s largest package-delivery company seeks to defray a surge in year-end costs.

San Francisco showed an outpouring of support for the three UPS drivers killed June 14 by a fellow driver.

UPS Inc. is planning a massive expansion in Plainfield, Ind., to keep pace with surging growth in e-commerce.

A second major shipping hub has landed along Interstate 20 in Arlington, Texas.

UPS Inc. has announced the opening of a new package facility in Myslowice, Poland. The larger center and increased sorting capacity will allow the service to help businesses of all sizes in southern Poland reach customers in the rest of the country, Europe and beyond, according to a UPS release.

UPS Inc. is setting up a joint venture in China to haul more U.S.-bound goods and capitalize on booming e-commerce in the world’s most populous nation.

UPS Inc. must pay $247 million to the state and city of New York for what a judge called the company’s egregious and prolonged failure to stop shipments of untaxed cigarettes from American Indian reservations that undermined anti-smoking efforts.