Great Savings Now Offered to More than

50 Million AAA Members in North America and Hawaii

The UPS Store Hickam, located at the Hickam BX, has teamed up with AAA to offer valuable discounts to AAA members through AAA’s Show Your Card & Save program.  AAA members that visit The UPS Store Hickam can save 15 percent off the full retail price of eligible services and products, while saving 5 percent on UPS shipping costs.

“The UPS Store is pleased to have this opportunity to provide affordable shipping and business services rates to AAA members,” said center manager Stephen Adler.  “I look forward to welcoming them into our store.”

In addition to domestic and international shipping, The UPS Store Hickam offers private mailbox services, document and finishing services, packing services and materials, fax services, office supplies and more.

Come Visit The UPS Store Hickam and

Our Other Locations

The UPS Store Hickam is located at Building 1249 Vickers Avenue—between the Hickam BX & BXtra, across from the food court.  We also encourage you to come and visit your locally owned and operated The UPS Store if you are in the neighborhood of the following areas:

The UPS Store Pearl Harbor at the NEX on Bougainville Drive

The UPS Store Schofield at the AAFES PX Exchange on Schofield Barracks

The UPS Store Kahala across Kahala Mall on Waialae Avenue 

The UPS Store Hawaii Kai at the Koko Marina Shopping Center on Kalanianaole Highway

THE UPS STORE OFFER CONVENIENT RECYCLING SOLUTIONS

            Spring and summer bring many momentous occasions: Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, weddings, graduations, and students returning home from college. With these events and celebrations come millions of packages traveling across the country, many of them filled with foam packaging peanuts. After unpacking, many people wonder if there’s a more environmentally conscious alternative to throwing all those peanuts into a landfill. Fortunately, recycling those pesky peanuts is as easy as visiting The UPS Store Hickam located at the Hickam AAFES BX.

            The UPS Store Hickam is encouraging consumers to help protect the environment by bringing in clean, foam packaging peanuts of all sizes, shapes and colors for reuse. This is part of an ongoing effort by The UPS Store Hickam to increase peanut recycling throughout the year.

            According to the Plastic Loose Fill Council, an organization founded in 1991 to promote the reuse of polystyrene loose-fill, more than 30 percent of plastic loose-fill is used again. For business centers such as The UPS Store Hickam, that reuse rate can be as high as 50 percent.

            “We encourage people to recycle every day, not just on Earth Day,” said Stephen Adler, The UPS Store center manager. “This is our opportunity to help the environment, while providing a convenient solution for the Hickam and Honolulu community.”

            For additional information about peanut recycling, visit the Plastic Loose Fill Council’s Web site at www.loosefillpackaging.com.

            In addition to packaging peanuts, The UPS Store Hickam accepts a wide variety of toner cartridges for recycling with UPS Return Service. All HP consumable products come with a UPS RS label, which simplifies recycling efforts by consumers.  Please ask a The UPS Store associate for more information.

   
            The UPS Store Hickam offers domestic and international shipping; full-service packing; digital printing; black-and-white and color duplications; document finishing (binding, laminating, etc.); notary; printing services (business cards, letterhead, rubber stamps, etc.); custom crating and shipping for large items (e.g., grandfather clocks, surfboards); mailbox and postal services; office and packaging supplies; and more.

THE UPS STORE HICKAM CITES RESILIENCE AND DETERMINATION AMONG KEY FACTORS

The results of two nationwide surveys sponsored by UPS show America’s entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well.

            In the first survey, conducted between September and October of last year, 91 percent of small-business owners or managers said they expect their company to be in the same or better financial shape in a year than it is today.  A follow-up survey, conducted in mid-December, after economic conditions worsened, showed only a small decline in the first survey’s optimism, with 86 percent of small-businesses owners expecting their company to be in the same or better financial shape in one year.

            “Small-business owners have an innate optimism and resilience,” said The UPS Store owner Larry Adler.  “We witness that spirit and determination in our customers every day. And as small-business owners ourselves, there’s a strong sense of identification.”

            Importantly, this optimism is rooted in realism as small-business owners surveyed do not project a speedy economic recovery. In the first survey, almost half (47 percent) of small-business owners said they believe that the U.S. economy will begin to improve in 2010 or later. That number climbed to 67 percent in the December survey.

            “Small businesses are a critical component of the economy and often cited as the engine of economic growth,” said Larry Adler.

            Small-business owners may be particularly optimistic for one important reason: they love what they do. When asked in the first survey what else they would do if money were no object, more than one-third (37 percent) said they would continue running their businesses and 12 percent said they would invest more money in their companies. Only 13 percent said they would retire.

            Additional information on the research can be found at www.ups.com.