The UPS Store Centers (Centers) are retail service businesses which offer mail and parcel receiving, packaging and shipping services through various
Company Profile The UPS Store, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of United Parcel Service ("UPS") of America, Inc., is the world's largest franchisor of retail shipping, postal, printing and business service centers. The UPS Store® and Mail Boxes Etc.® together comprise nearly 4,700 independently owned locations in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada, providing convenient and value-added business services to the small-office/home-office (SOHO) market, corporate "road warriors," and consumers. History The Mail Boxes Etc. concept was introduced in 1980 as a convenient alternative to the post office. Throughout its evolution, it has continued to define and lead the business services category it created. In 2001, UPS acquired Mail Boxes Etc., Inc. In 2003, the two companies introduced The UPS Store