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After several name changes, in 1919, the name United Parcel Service was bestowed upon the company and with that change came a switch to the color brown, which has remained to this day.

On this date in a Seattle basement, two teenagers launched one of the nation’s most iconic shipping companies

It was on this date in 1907 that two teenagers named Jim Casey and Claude Ryan, armed with a $100 loan, created the American Messenger Company.  That business, started in a basement in Seattle, has grown into a nearly $50 billion package delivery giant.

No longer called the American Messenger Company, most people today know it as Big Brown.

Earlier this month, Seattle honored UPS for its 110 years in business and declared August 28 “UPS Day” in the city. Now based in Atlanta, the company has transitioned from those early days of making home deliveries for drugstore customers or running other errands via bicycle, to a transportation powerhouse with over 108,000 vehicles and nearly 650 ai