UPS raised rates for its SurePost service and will no longer use the US Postal Service to deliver any of those parcels. The UPS Teamsters union was concerned enough about the resulting surge in volume its workers would have to handle that it warned its members to guard against the possibility of excessive overtime. “So far, the addition of millions of Surepost packages has meant that post-peak layoffs have gotten off to a slow start,” it wrote on January 15th. Read more!