Terra Parcel Service

Terra Parcel Service also known as TPS is the largest package delivery company and a provider of supply chain management solutions within the Union that is not a subsidiary of one of the ten largest Mega Corporations. Many of the largest Mega Corps, including all of the top ten have a subsidiary specializing in package delivery. Typically between 10% and 75% of the packages handled by these subsidiaries are internal to the Mega Corp. In terms of capacity available to the general public TPS is the third largest.

TPS's current headquarters is located on Thresh Base.

History
On August 28, 1907, James Casey founded the American Messenger Company with fellow teenager Claude Ryan in Seattle, Washington, capitalized with $100 in debt.

In 1913, the first delivery car appeared, a Model T Ford. Casey and Ryan merged with a competitor, Evert McCabe, and formed Merchants Parcel Delivery. Consolidated delivery was also introduced, combining packages addressed to a certain neighborhood onto one delivery vehicle.

In 1930, a consolidated service began in New York City, and soon after in other major cities in the East and the Midwest. In 1937, the logo was redesigned to reflect the company's new name United Parcel Service. All UPS vehicles are then painted Pullman brown. In 1937, the UPS logo was revised for the first time; it then included the tagline "The Delivery System for Stores of Quality".

From 1940 to 1959, the company acquired "common carrier" rights to deliver packages between all addresses, any customer, private and commercial.

It continued to expand it's services and locations until it had delivery and pickup from at least on location in every Pre-Ascent country or territory, with door to door service in all of the European Union, North America and Australia as well as in at least part of most of the cities over 500,000 in Latin America prior to the outbreak of WWIII.

With WWIII and The Ascent, it passed though some rough times even approaching bankruptcy, until in a surprise to investors it was involved in a three way merger with one Saran and one Pan Saran parcel freight company. The combined company Terra Parcel Service, remained headquartered and based on Terra until after 2500.