ADDISON, Ill. — It looks like a torture chamber for cardboard and bubble wrap. At a lab in suburban Chicago, UPS Inc. tests new packaging designs by dropping, shaking and smashing boxes with ...

This Dec. 11, 2012 photo shows a box getting a 900-pound hug at the compression table at the UPS Package Design and Testing Lab in Addison, Ill. UPS tests new packaging designs by dropping, shaking ...

As e-commerce explodes, the shipper teams with Bubble Wrap's inventor to create a "packaging innovation center." Cardboard boxes may never be the same. Ben Fox Rubin was a senior reporter for CNET ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – JUNE 17: A United Parcel Service (UPS) driver loads a cart with boxes before making a delivery on June 17, 2014 in San Francisco, California. UPS announced plans to begin to ...

United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) has agreed to buy US Office Products Co.'s Mail Boxes Etc. unit, which serves retail customers and small businesses at 4,300 packaging and shipping centers. "This is a ...

It looks like a torture chamber for cardboard and bubble wrap. At a lab in suburban Chicago, UPS Inc. tests new packaging designs by dropping, shaking and smashing boxes with brutal-looking equipment.

ADDISON, Ill. — It looks like a torture chamber for cardboard and Bubble Wrap. At a lab in suburban Chicago, UPS tests new packaging designs by dropping, shaking and smashing boxes with brutal-looking ...