Roses are red, violets are blue…and UPS will deliver 110 million of them

Valentine’s Day is this Saturday—only Mothers’ Day rivals it in the flower business—and UPS expects to be handling 110 million flowers for the occasion.

 

You may think of UPS as the brown truck that brings your Amazon package, but it’s also a major air freight carrier, and it’s scheduling more than 40 extra flights, mostly through Miami, hauling the flowers from growing areas in Columbia and Ecuador, where they are in season now. 

 

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