ADDISON, Ill. (AP) — It looks like a torture chamber for cardboard and bubble wrap. At a lab in suburban Chicago, UPS Inc. tests new packaging designs by dropping, shaking and smashing boxes with ...

As e-commerce explodes, the shipper teams with Bubble Wrap's inventor to create a "packaging innovation center." Cardboard boxes may never be the same. Ben Fox Rubin was a senior reporter for CNET ...

United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) has agreed to buy US Office Products Co.'s Mail Boxes Etc. unit, which serves retail customers and small businesses at 4,300 packaging and shipping centers. "This is a ...

Atlanta-based shipping giant United Parcel Service, (UPS) is buying the assets of Mail Boxes Etc., (MBE) a subsidiary of San Diego-based US Office Products. Terms of the cash transaction were not ...