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With UPS strikes about to hit, Diamond was keen to a) emphasise that they had negotiated to reduce UPS shipping rates and b) find alternatives to UPS. Right now, there is a distribution battle going on, where retailers are choosing where to play their orders directly through Lunar or PRH, or use Diamond as a sub[...]

Talks between UPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, as previously covered by Bleeding Cool, broke down last week with no new talks scheduled Teamsters already voted to strike in August if an agreement was not reached, covering 340,000 full and part-time employees for UPS. Diamond Comic Distributors have issued the following statement to comic book[...]

In 2018, Bleeding Cool reported that United Parcel Service (UPS) workers and their union, the Teamsters, had agreed on a tentative five-year deal which,prevented what was threatened to be their first UPS strike in decades The deal saw part-time package handlers move from $10.35 an hour to $13 to $15.50 by 2022, while drivers then[...]

A short time ago, APC provided us with some killer gear to test out in the form of their Back-Up Gaming UPS to be used for both PC gaming and consoles The primary goal of a UPS generator is so that whenever a power outage or some other electrical issue comes about, you have a[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors has received the following note from UPS, which they have passed on to comic book stores. We have been experiencing very heavy volume levels … We expect volume to continue to be strong and this is an [shipping] industry wide problem The surge in demand coupled with limited capacity have made the operating[...]

Diamond recognises that circumstances for many stores have now changed and while UPS will not ship to non-essential business addresses at this time, they will ship to residential addresses As a result, Diamond has now recommended this as an option to retailers wanting to continue business in one fashion or another In a message to[...]

Yesterday, we learned the shocking news that UPS union members have authorized leaders to call for a strike if they are unable to secure a favorable deal for a new contract While the authorization doesn't guarantee that a strike will happen, Bathroom Bulletins has learned that North American comics monopoly Diamond is already preparing for[...]

Like the most recent interaction with The UPS Store and Nintendo on Twitter Check out the tweet below that The UPS Store decided to create as they have their own kind of fun with the new Labo creations, by making their own cardboard carrying case out of UPS boxes so that you can take your[...]

That's true of white kids growing up in the suburbs as well, but Black inner city kids tend to get used to disappointment. That's because many things in the inner city can spoil or end your life, so those days when you drop the ice cream from your ice cream cone? Yeah, you're upset, but not[...]

  This is some of the missing artwork by Denys Cowan that was heading to the Milestones: African Americans in Comics, Pop Culture & Beyond exhibition at Geppi's Entertainment Museum in Baltimore by UPS. Only one page made it through The rest, either stolen or lost You can guess which Milestone's Michael Davis thinks it is. Here's[...]

It's important enough to run on Bleeding Cool and I'd really appreciate it if the Bleeding Cool Family would tweet, Facebook and chat room the hell out of this. My sincere thanks to those that do. Brown Can Act Like They Give A Shit. That's what Brown can do for me. What can brown do for you?" Was the[...]

Printed by the Daily Mirror during the second world war, it featured a sailor clutching the remains of a torpedoed ship, with the caption "The price of petrol has been increased by one penny – Official." I'm reminded of it now, with the news of a traffic accident on the Interstate 81, a UPS truck burned[...]