United Parcel Service (UPS) cemented its place as worldwide shipping's number one by showing a 33 per cent increase in earnings per share in the first quarter of 2010.

Parcel2Go's business partner stated that the results were spurred by a strong performance in its international package business, where revenue increased by 18 per cent.

Such a strong performance will no doubt encourage British companies to use UPS if they have items to courier to the USA.

The news comes just a couple of weeks after the international couriers announced that they were planning on creating 25,000 by 2015.