United Parcel Service, Inc. Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

DEBT AND FINANCING ARRANGEMENTS - Additional Information (Detail)

DEBT AND FINANCING ARRANGEMENTS - Additional Information (Detail)	12 Months Ended						12 Months Ended		1 Months Ended	12 Months Ended		12 Months Ended	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended		1 Months Ended	12 Months Ended														1 Months Ended	12 Months Ended										3 Months Ended		12 Months Ended	3 Months Ended						12 Months Ended		12 Months Ended			12 Months Ended		12 Months Ended		12 Months Ended								12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2014 USD ($) Tranches Credit_Agreements	Dec. 31, 2013 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2012 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2014 Maximum	Dec. 31, 2014 Commercial paper USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2014 Foreign Commercial Paper Program EUR (€)	Dec. 31, 2014 8.375% debentures Due 2020 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2013 8.375% debentures Due 2020	Jan. 31, 1998 8.375% debentures Due 2030	Dec. 31, 2014 8.375% debentures Due 2030 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2014 8.375% debentures Due 2030 Until April 1, 2020	Dec. 31, 2014 8.375% debentures Due 2030 After April 1, 2020 for the Final 10 Years	Dec. 31, 2014 Floating rate senior notes USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2014 Floating rate senior notes USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2013 Floating rate senior notes USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2014 Floating rate senior notes LIBOR	Dec. 31, 2014 Floating rate senior notes Maximum LIBOR	Dec. 31, 2014 Floating rate senior notes Minimum LIBOR	Dec. 31, 2014 Capital lease obligations	Dec. 31, 2014 Facility Notes and Bonds Worldport Louisville USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2013 Facility Notes and Bonds Worldport Louisville	Dec. 31, 2014 Facility Notes and Bonds Airfreight Louisville USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2013 Facility Notes and Bonds Airfreight Louisville	Dec. 31, 2014 Facility Notes and Bonds International Airport Dallas Fort Worth USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2014 Facility Notes and Bonds Delaware Airport Philadelphia USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2013 Facility Notes and Bonds Delaware Airport Philadelphia	Dec. 31, 2014 Facility notes and bonds	Dec. 31, 2014 5.50% Pound Sterling Notes GBP (£) Tranches	Dec. 31, 2001 5.50% Pound Sterling Notes	Dec. 31, 2014 5.50% senior notes	May 31, 2007 5.13% Pound Sterling Notes	Dec. 31, 2014 5.13% Pound Sterling Notes GBP (£)	Dec. 31, 2014 Revolving credit facility expiring in 2012	Dec. 31, 2014 Revolving credit facility expiring in 2014 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2014 Revolving credit facility expiring in 2014 Federal funds effective rate	Dec. 31, 2014 Revolving credit facility expiring in 2014 LIBOR	Dec. 31, 2014 Revolving credit facility expiring In 2015	Dec. 31, 2014 Revolving credit facility expiring in 2018 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2014 Revolving credit facility expiring in 2018 Federal funds effective rate	Dec. 31, 2014 Revolving credit facility expiring in 2018 LIBOR	Dec. 31, 2014 Revolving credit facility expiring in 2018 Minimum	Dec. 31, 2014 LIBOR [Member] Revolving credit facility expiring in 2014 Maximum	Dec. 31, 2014 LIBOR [Member] Revolving credit facility expiring in 2014 Minimum	Dec. 31, 2014 LIBOR [Member] Revolving credit facility expiring in 2014 Minimum	Dec. 31, 2014 LIBOR [Member] Revolving credit facility expiring in 2018 Minimum	Dec. 31, 2014 Citibank base rate [Member] Revolving credit facility expiring in 2014 Maximum	Dec. 31, 2014 Citibank base rate [Member] Revolving credit facility expiring in 2014 Minimum	Dec. 31, 2014 Citibank base rate [Member] Revolving credit facility expiring in 2018 Minimum	Dec. 31, 2014 Commercial paper USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2013 Commercial paper USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2014 Senior notes 5.50% senior notes USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2013 Senior notes 5.50% senior notes USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2014 Senior notes 3.875% senior notes USD ($)	Apr. 01, 2014 Senior notes 3.875% senior notes USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2013 Senior notes 3.875% senior notes USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2014 Senior notes 1.125% senior notes USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2013 Senior notes 1.125% senior notes USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2014 Senior notes 5.125% senior notes USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2013 Senior notes 5.125% senior notes USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2014 Senior notes 3.125% senior notes USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2013 Senior notes 3.125% senior notes USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2014 Senior notes 8.375% debentures Due 2020 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2013 Senior notes 8.375% debentures Due 2020 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2014 Senior notes 8.375% debentures Due 2030 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2013 Senior notes 8.375% debentures Due 2030 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2014 Senior notes Floating rate senior notes USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2013 Senior notes Floating rate senior notes USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2014 Senior notes 2.45% senior notes USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2013 Senior notes 2.45% senior notes USD ($)
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt instrument, face amount	$ 11,586,000,000us-gaap_DebtInstrumentFaceAmount																																																$ 772,000,000		$ 750,000,000		$ 1,000,000,000	$ 1,000,000,000		$ 375,000,000		$ 1,000,000,000		$ 1,500,000,000		$ 424,000,000		$ 276,000,000		$ 463,000,000		$ 1,000,000,000
Commercial paper program, authorized to borrow					10,000,000,000.0	5,000,000,000.0
Number of tranches in debt instrument	2ups_NumberOfTranchesInDebenture																											2
Original debt amount										276,000,000
Interest rate							8.375%			8.375%	8.375%	7.62%																		5.50%																					5.50%		3.875%	3.875%		1.125%		5.125%		3.125%								2.45%
Debt instrument, period that interest rate is reduced to 7.62%												10 years
Debt instrument redemption price										100.00%
Debt not subject to early redemption							424,000,000
Derivative, average swaption interest rate							4.99%	5.03%
Average interest rate														0.00%	0.00%					0.05%	0.09%	0.05%	0.08%		0.04%	0.07%						5.125%
Senior notes earliest callable period														30 years
Senior notes earliest putable period														10 years
Principal value of redeemed notes													1,000,000	1,000,000	4,000,000
Principal Balance													90,000,000	90,000,000						149,000,000		42,000,000		29,000,000	100,000,000
Fixed interest rate																								5.11%
Pound Sterling notes not exchanged																												66,000,000
Exchanged Pound Sterling notes principal amount																																455,000,000
Redemption price description																																These notes are callable at our option at a redemption price equal to the greater of 100% of the principal amount and accrued interest, or the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payout of principal and interest thereon discounted to the date of redemption at a benchmark U.K. government bond yield plus 15 basis points and accrued interest.
Average fixed interest rates payable on swaps																												5.45%
Rent expense related to operating leases	676,000,000us-gaap_LeaseAndRentalExpense	575,000,000us-gaap_LeaseAndRentalExpense	619,000,000us-gaap_LeaseAndRentalExpense
Outstanding letters of credit	1,064,000,000
Surety bonds written	640,000,000ups_SuretyBonds
Number of credit agreements	2ups_NumberOfCreditAgreements
Revolving credit facilities																																		1,500,000,000.0				1,000,000,000.0
Maturity																				Jan. 31, 2029		Nov. 30, 2036		May 31, 2032	Dec. 31, 2015				Feb. 12, 2031		Feb. 28, 2050		Mar. 28, 2014	Mar. 27, 2015			Mar. 29, 2018	Mar. 28, 2019
Debt Instrument, Credit Default Swap Spread, Term																																												1 year
Applicable margin rates													0.45%			3000.00%	4500.00%	3000.00%																	0.50%	1.00%			0.50%	1.00%		0.75%	0.10%		0.10%	1.00%	0.00%	0.75%
Applicable margin for base rate below LIBOR																																						1.00%			0.00%
Covenants limit the amount of secured indebtedness that we may incur, and limit the amount of attributable debt in sale-leaseback transactions, to percentage of net tangible assets	10.00%
Covenants limit the amount of secured indebtedness that we may incur, and limit the amount of attributable debt in sale-leaseback transactions, net tangible assets amount	2,380,000,000
Long-term debt fair value	12,257,000,000us-gaap_DebtInstrumentFairValue	11,756,000,000us-gaap_DebtInstrumentFairValue
Maturity - Minimum Date					Jan. 01, 2014									Jan. 01, 2049					Jan. 01, 2014								Jan. 01, 2015
Maturity - Maximum Date					Jan. 01, 2014		Jan. 01, 2020			Jan. 01, 2030				Jan. 01, 2053					Jan. 01, 3004								Jan. 01, 2036																								Jan. 01, 2018		Jan. 01, 2014			Jan. 01, 2017		Jan. 01, 2019		Jan. 01, 2021								Jan. 01, 2022
Maturity date of newly converted debentures									Apr. 01, 2030
Operating leases, expiration year				2038
Debt Instrument, Interest Rate, Effective Percentage																																																			2.49%	2.53%	0.94%		0.97%	0.60%	0.64%	1.97%	2.01%	1.06%	1.11%							0.82%	0.86%
Long-term Debt	$ 10,081,000,000us-gaap_LongTermDebt																																																$ 772,000,000	$ 0	$ 802,000,000	$ 821,000,000	$ 0		$ 1,007,000,000	$ 370,000,000	$ 367,000,000	$ 1,076,000,000	$ 1,079,000,000	$ 1,617,000,000	$ 1,579,000,000	$ 480,000,000	$ 479,000,000	$ 283,000,000	$ 283,000,000	$ 459,000,000	$ 370,000,000	$ 977,000,000	$ 913,000,000