# How does UPS Surepost work?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-ups-surepost-work/1012526
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [January 3, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-ups-surepost-work/1012526 "2025-01-03T16:57:07Z")
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### Author: ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-ups-surepost-work/1012526/19 "2025-01-05T02:28:35Z")

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From a Doper who works for UPS:

> [@An Air of Finality in the last 2024 MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-air-of-finality-in-the-last-2024-mmp/1012335/267):
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> Remember m telling you about Surepost, where Brown pays the USPS to deliver a lot of packages? Well the contract expired yesterday. So every Surepost package that had a good physical address was gonna be delivered by Brown, and anybody getting it sent to the Post Office/P.O. Box, and didn’t have a good address on file got it sent back to the sender.

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