Almost all UPS facilities are back in action in the areas affected by Hurricane Sandy innortheast United States, although customers are inevitably not yet back functioning at full
capacity themselves, UPS told CEP-Research.A spokeswoman said some UPS facilities were having to use back-up power solutions, althoughall-but-one of its collection points and hubs in New Jersey were now operational. The return tooperations of public transport systems in east-coast cities and towns was also making it easier forUPS staff to get to and from work, the spokeswoman said.
“But just because we are back making pick-ups and collections, it doesn’t mean that all of ourcustomers are back working, so we are working with them to identify how best to manage theirshipments – for example, whether they need to move certain things by air express for certainshipments,” she said, in order to make up for time lost during the disruptions – or to shift thingsto other parts of the country.
Like other operators, UPS continues to warn that road closures, flooding, and power outages dueto Hurricane Sandy are still causing some unavoidable service delays in Connecticut, Delaware,Maryland, New Jersey, New York, South Eastern Pennsylvania, Northeast Virginia, and WashingtonDC.
