United Parcel Service (UPS)started out in 1907 in a c1oset-sizedbasement office. Jim Casey and Claude Ryan-two teenagers from Seattle with two bicyc1es and one phone-promised the "best service and lowest rates." UPS has used this formula successfully for more than a century to become the world's largest ground and air package-delivery company. It's a global enterprise with over 400,000 employees, 93,000 vehic1es, and the world's ninth largest airline.