<PAGE>   1

    AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON OCTOBER 2, 2001
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                             ----------------------
                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                             ----------------------
                           UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC.
             (EXACT NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)

                   DELAWARE                               58-2480149
(STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION OF INCORPORATION          (I.R.S. EMPLOYER
               OR ORGANIZATION)                       IDENTIFICATION NO.)

          55 GLENLAKE PARKWAY, N.E.
              ATLANTA, GEORGIA                               30328
  (ADDRESS OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES)                 (ZIP CODE)
                             ----------------------

                         UPS DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
                            (FULL TITLE OF THE PLAN)

                             ----------------------

                                JOSEPH R. MODEROW
                           UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC.
                            55 GLENLAKE PARKWAY, N.E.
                             ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30328
                     (NAME AND ADDRESS OF AGENT FOR SERVICE)

                                 (404) 828-6000
          (TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE, OF AGENT FOR SERVICE)

                             ----------------------

                                   COPIES TO:
                             JEFFREY M. STEIN, ESQ.
                                 KING & SPALDING
                              191 PEACHTREE STREET
                             ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303
                                 (404) 572-4600

                             ----------------------

                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

=========================================================================================================
     Title Of Each                 Amount To Be      Proposed Maximum     Proposed Maximum     Amount Of
Class Of Securities To Be           Registered      Offering Price Per       Aggregate       Registration
     Registered                                          Share             Offering Price        Fee
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>                               <C>               <C>                   <C>                <C>
Interests in the UPS Deferred
Compensation Plan..............   $5,000,000(1)        100%              $5,000,000(2)       $1250
=========================================================================================================
</TABLE>

(1)      The $5,000,000 of interests in the plan interests being registered
         represents estimated aggregate contributions of employees to the plan
         that may be invested in the registrant's common stock.
(2)      Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee.
<PAGE>   2

                                     PART I

              INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(A) PROSPECTUS

         The documents containing the information specified in Part I will be
sent or given to employees and/or directors of UPS as specified by Rule
428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. In accordance with the
instructions of Part I of Form S-8, such documents will not be filed with the
SEC either as part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or
prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 of the Securities Act. These
documents and the documents incorporated by reference pursuant to Item 3 of Part
II of this Registration Statement, taken together, constitute the prospectus as
required by Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.   INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

         The following documents filed with the SEC are incorporated herein by
reference:

         -        UPS's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December
                  31, 2000;

         -        UPS's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended
                  March 31, 2001 and June 30, 2001;

         -        UPS's Current Reports on Form 8-K, dated January 29, 2001 and
                  June 26, 2001; and

         -        the description of United Parcel Service of America, Inc.'s
                  common stock, $.10 par value per share, contained in Item 14
                  of its Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed with the SEC
                  in April 1970, as updated by Item 5 of its Annual Report on
                  Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1998, and as
                  modified by the description of the class A common stock
                  contained in UPS's Registration Statement on Form S-4 (No.
                  333-58268). UPS succeeded to the 1934 Act registration of
                  United Parcel Service of America, Inc. pursuant to Rule 12g-3
                  under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

         In addition, any and all documents filed by UPS pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, subsequent to the date of this
Registration Statement and prior to the termination of the offering of the
shares of common stock offered hereby shall, to the extent required by law, be
deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to
be a part hereof.

         Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement
contained herein or in any subsequently filed document which also is deemed to
be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any
such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so
modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.


                                       2
<PAGE>   3

ITEM 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.

         Not applicable.

ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.

         Not applicable.

ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

         Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law generally provides
that all directors and officers (as well as other employees and individuals) may
be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines
and amounts paid in settlement in connection with certain specified actions,
suits or proceedings, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative
(other than an action by or in the right of the corporation -- a "derivative
action"), if they acted in good faith and in a manner they reasonably believed
to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with
respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe
their conduct was unlawful. A similar standard of care is applicable in the case
of derivative actions, except that indemnification extends only to expenses
(including attorneys' fees) incurred in connection with defense or settlement of
an action, and the Delaware General Corporation Law requires court approval
before there can be any indemnification where the person seeking indemnification
has been found liable to the corporation. Section 145 of the Delaware General
Corporation Law also provides that the rights conferred thereby are not
exclusive of any other right to which any person may be entitled under any
bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise,
and permits a corporation to advance expenses to or on behalf of a person
entitled to be indemnified upon receipt of an undertaking to repay the amounts
advanced if it is determined that the person is not entitled to be indemnified.

         UPS's Restated Certificate of Incorporation does not provide for
indemnification of UPS's directors and officers, but UPS's Bylaws provide that
UPS must indemnify its directors and officers to the fullest extent authorized
by the Delaware General Corporation Law, subject to very limited exceptions.

ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

         Not Applicable.

ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.

         See Exhibit Index.

ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS.

(a)      The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

         (1)      To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
                  made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration
                  Statement:


                                       3
<PAGE>   4

                  (i)      To include any prospectus required by Section
                           10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

                  (ii)     To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events
                           arising after the effective date of the Registration
                           Statement (or the most recent post-effective
                           amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
                           aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the
                           information set forth in the Registration Statement;

                  (iii)    To include any material information with respect to
                           the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in
                           the Registration Statement or any material change to
                           such information in the Registration Statement;

                  provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do
                  not apply if the Registration Statement is on Form S-3 or Form
                  S-8, and the information required to be included in a
                  post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in
                  periodic reports filed with or furnished to the SEC by the
                  Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
                  Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference into this
                  Registration Statement.

         (2)      That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
                  Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be
                  deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
                  securities offered therein, and the offering of such
                  securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
                  fide offering thereof.

         (3)      To remove from the registration by means of a post-effective
                  amendment any of the securities being registered which remain
                  unsold at the termination of the offering.

(b)      The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
         determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
         Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d)
         of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee
         benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange
         Act) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement
         shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
         securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that
         time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(c)      Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
         Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of
         the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
         Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such
         indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
         Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
         indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
         Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or
         controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any
         action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or
         controlling person in connection with the securities being registered,
         the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
         has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of


                                       4
<PAGE>   5

         appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by
         it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will
         be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.


                                       5
<PAGE>   6

                                   SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the undersigned
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Atlanta, State of Georgia, on this the 2nd day of
October, 2001.

                           UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC.


                           /s/ James P. Kelly
                           -----------------------------------------------------
                           James P. Kelly
                           Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints D. SCOTT DAVIS and JOSEPH R. MODEROW, and
each of them, as his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including
post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same,
with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, including
any and all post-effective amendments, and any related Rule 462(b) registration
statement and any amendment thereto, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them,
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or either of them, or
their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue hereof.

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration
Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated
as of October 2, 2001:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Signature                                             Title
---------                                             -----
<S>                                                   <C>


                                                      Director
--------------------------------------------
William H. Brown, III


/s/ D. Scott Davis                                    Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
--------------------------------------------          and Treasurer
D. Scott Davis                                        (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
</TABLE>


                                       6
<PAGE>   7

<TABLE>
<S>                                                   <C>


/s/ Calvin Darden                                     Senior Vice President and Director
--------------------------------------------
Calvin Darden


/s/ Michael L. Eskew                                  Vice Chairman, Executive Vice President and Director
--------------------------------------------
Michael L. Eskew


/s/ James P. Kelly                                    Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer
--------------------------------------------          and Director
James P. Kelly                                        (Principal Executive Officer)


                                                      Director
--------------------------------------------
Ann M. Livermore


                                                      Director
--------------------------------------------
Gary E. MacDougal


/s/ Joseph R. Moderow                                 Senior Vice President, Secretary and Director
--------------------------------------------
Joseph R. Moderow


/s/ Kent C. Nelson                                    Director
--------------------------------------------
Kent C. Nelson


                                                      Director
--------------------------------------------
Victor A. Pelson


/s/ Lea N. Soupata                                    Senior Vice President and Director
--------------------------------------------
Lea N. Soupata


                                                      Director
--------------------------------------------
Robert M. Teeter
</TABLE>


                                       7
<PAGE>   8

<TABLE>
<S>                                                   <C>


                                                      Director
--------------------------------------------
John W. Thompson


/s/ Thomas H. Weidemeyer                              Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and
--------------------------------------------          Director
Thomas H. Weidemeyer
</Table>

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the United Parcel
Service, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Atlanta, State of Georgia, on this the 2nd day of
October, 2001.

                                  UPS DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN


                                  By:   /s/ Michael E. Connell
                                       -----------------------------------------
                                  Name: Michael E. Connell
                                       -----------------------------------------



                                       8
<PAGE>   9

                                  EXHIBIT INDEX

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Exhibit
Number            Exhibit Description
-------           -------------------
<S>               <C>

  3.1             Form of United Parcel Service, Inc.'s Restated Certificate of
                  Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of
                  Amendment No. 3 to United Parcel Service, Inc.'s Registration
                  Statement on Form S-4 (No. 333-83349), filed on September 21,
                  1999).

  3.2             Form of the United Parcel Service, Inc.'s Bylaws (incorporated
                  by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of Amendment No. 1 to the United
                  Parcel Service, Inc.'s Registration Statement on Form S-4 (No.
                  333-83349), filed on September 1, 1999).

  5.1             Opinion of King & Spalding as to the legality of the
                  securities being registered.

  23.1            Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP.

  23.2            Consent of King & Spalding (included in Exhibit 5.1).
</TABLE>


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1

    AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON OCTOBER 2, 2001
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                             ----------------------
                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                             ----------------------
                           UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC.
             (EXACT NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)

                   DELAWARE                               58-2480149
(STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION OF INCORPORATION          (I.R.S. EMPLOYER
               OR ORGANIZATION)                       IDENTIFICATION NO.)

          55 GLENLAKE PARKWAY, N.E.
              ATLANTA, GEORGIA                               30328
  (ADDRESS OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES)                 (ZIP CODE)
                             ----------------------

                         UPS DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
                            (FULL TITLE OF THE PLAN)

                             ----------------------

                                JOSEPH R. MODEROW
                           UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC.
                            55 GLENLAKE PARKWAY, N.E.
                             ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30328
                     (NAME AND ADDRESS OF AGENT FOR SERVICE)

                                 (404) 828-6000
          (TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE, OF AGENT FOR SERVICE)

                             ----------------------

                                   COPIES TO:
                             JEFFREY M. STEIN, ESQ.
                                 KING & SPALDING
                              191 PEACHTREE STREET
                             ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303
                                 (404) 572-4600

                             ----------------------

                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
=========================================================================================================
     Title Of Each                 Amount To Be      Proposed Maximum     Proposed Maximum     Amount Of
Class Of Securities To Be           Registered      Offering Price Per       Aggregate       Registration
     Registered                                          Share             Offering Price        Fee
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interests in the UPS Deferred
Compensation Plan..............   $5,000,000(1)        100%              $5,000,000(2)       $1250
=========================================================================================================
(1)      The $5,000,000 of interests in the plan interests being registered
         represents estimated aggregate contributions of employees to the plan
         that may be invested in the registrant's common stock.
(2)      Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee.
2

                                     PART I

              INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(A) PROSPECTUS

         The documents containing the information specified in Part I will be
sent or given to employees and/or directors of UPS as specified by Rule
428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. In accordance with the
instructions of Part I of Form S-8, such documents will not be filed with the
SEC either as part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or
prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 of the Securities Act. These
documents and the documents incorporated by reference pursuant to Item 3 of Part
II of this Registration Statement, taken together, constitute the prospectus as
required by Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.   INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

         The following documents filed with the SEC are incorporated herein by
reference:

         -        UPS's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December
                  31, 2000;

         -        UPS's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended
                  March 31, 2001 and June 30, 2001;

         -        UPS's Current Reports on Form 8-K, dated January 29, 2001 and
                  June 26, 2001; and

         -        the description of United Parcel Service of America, Inc.'s
                  common stock, $.10 par value per share, contained in Item 14
                  of its Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed with the SEC
                  in April 1970, as updated by Item 5 of its Annual Report on
                  Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1998, and as
                  modified by the description of the class A common stock
                  contained in UPS's Registration Statement on Form S-4 (No.
                  333-58268). UPS succeeded to the 1934 Act registration of
                  United Parcel Service of America, Inc. pursuant to Rule 12g-3
                  under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

         In addition, any and all documents filed by UPS pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, subsequent to the date of this
Registration Statement and prior to the termination of the offering of the
shares of common stock offered hereby shall, to the extent required by law, be
deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to
be a part hereof.

         Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement
contained herein or in any subsequently filed document which also is deemed to
be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any
such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so
modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

                                       2
3

ITEM 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.

         Not applicable.

ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.

         Not applicable.

ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

         Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law generally provides
that all directors and officers (as well as other employees and individuals) may
be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines
and amounts paid in settlement in connection with certain specified actions,
suits or proceedings, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative
(other than an action by or in the right of the corporation -- a "derivative
action"), if they acted in good faith and in a manner they reasonably believed
to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with
respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe
their conduct was unlawful. A similar standard of care is applicable in the case
of derivative actions, except that indemnification extends only to expenses
(including attorneys' fees) incurred in connection with defense or settlement of
an action, and the Delaware General Corporation Law requires court approval
before there can be any indemnification where the person seeking indemnification
has been found liable to the corporation. Section 145 of the Delaware General
Corporation Law also provides that the rights conferred thereby are not
exclusive of any other right to which any person may be entitled under any
bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise,
and permits a corporation to advance expenses to or on behalf of a person
entitled to be indemnified upon receipt of an undertaking to repay the amounts
advanced if it is determined that the person is not entitled to be indemnified.

         UPS's Restated Certificate of Incorporation does not provide for
indemnification of UPS's directors and officers, but UPS's Bylaws provide that
UPS must indemnify its directors and officers to the fullest extent authorized
by the Delaware General Corporation Law, subject to very limited exceptions.

ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

         Not Applicable.

ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.

         See Exhibit Index.

ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS.

(a)      The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

         (1)      To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
                  made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration
                  Statement:

                                       3
4

                  (i)      To include any prospectus required by Section
                           10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

                  (ii)     To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events
                           arising after the effective date of the Registration
                           Statement (or the most recent post-effective
                           amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
                           aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the
                           information set forth in the Registration Statement;

                  (iii)    To include any material information with respect to
                           the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in
                           the Registration Statement or any material change to
                           such information in the Registration Statement;

                  provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do
                  not apply if the Registration Statement is on Form S-3 or Form
                  S-8, and the information required to be included in a
                  post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in
                  periodic reports filed with or furnished to the SEC by the
                  Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
                  Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference into this
                  Registration Statement.

         (2)      That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
                  Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be
                  deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
                  securities offered therein, and the offering of such
                  securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
                  fide offering thereof.

         (3)      To remove from the registration by means of a post-effective
                  amendment any of the securities being registered which remain
                  unsold at the termination of the offering.

(b)      The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
         determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
         Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d)
         of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee
         benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange
         Act) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement
         shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
         securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that
         time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(c)      Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
         Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of
         the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
         Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such
         indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
         Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
         indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
         Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or
         controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any
         action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or
         controlling person in connection with the securities being registered,
         the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
         has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of

                                       4
5

         appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by
         it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will
         be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

                                       5
6

                                   SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the undersigned
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Atlanta, State of Georgia, on this the 2nd day of
October, 2001.

                           UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC.

                           /s/ James P. Kelly
                           -----------------------------------------------------
                           James P. Kelly
                           Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints D. SCOTT DAVIS and JOSEPH R. MODEROW, and
each of them, as his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including
post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same,
with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, including
any and all post-effective amendments, and any related Rule 462(b) registration
statement and any amendment thereto, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them,
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or either of them, or
their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue hereof.

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration
Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated
as of October 2, 2001:
Signature                                             Title
---------                                             -----
Director
--------------------------------------------
William H. Brown, III

/s/ D. Scott Davis                                    Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
--------------------------------------------          and Treasurer
D. Scott Davis                                        (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
6
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/s/ Calvin Darden                                     Senior Vice President and Director
--------------------------------------------
Calvin Darden

/s/ Michael L. Eskew                                  Vice Chairman, Executive Vice President and Director
--------------------------------------------
Michael L. Eskew

/s/ James P. Kelly                                    Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer
--------------------------------------------          and Director
James P. Kelly                                        (Principal Executive Officer)

                                                      Director
--------------------------------------------
Ann M. Livermore

                                                      Director
--------------------------------------------
Gary E. MacDougal

/s/ Joseph R. Moderow                                 Senior Vice President, Secretary and Director
--------------------------------------------
Joseph R. Moderow

/s/ Kent C. Nelson                                    Director
--------------------------------------------
Kent C. Nelson

                                                      Director
--------------------------------------------
Victor A. Pelson

/s/ Lea N. Soupata                                    Senior Vice President and Director
--------------------------------------------
Lea N. Soupata

                                                      Director
--------------------------------------------
Robert M. Teeter
7
8
Director
--------------------------------------------
John W. Thompson

/s/ Thomas H. Weidemeyer                              Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and
--------------------------------------------          Director
Thomas H. Weidemeyer
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the United Parcel
Service, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Atlanta, State of Georgia, on this the 2nd day of
October, 2001.

                                  UPS DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

                                  By:   /s/ Michael E. Connell
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                                  Name: Michael E. Connell
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                                  EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Number            Exhibit Description
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3.1             Form of United Parcel Service, Inc.'s Restated Certificate of
                  Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of
                  Amendment No. 3 to United Parcel Service, Inc.'s Registration
                  Statement on Form S-4 (No. 333-83349), filed on September 21,
                  1999).

  3.2             Form of the United Parcel Service, Inc.'s Bylaws (incorporated
                  by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of Amendment No. 1 to the United
                  Parcel Service, Inc.'s Registration Statement on Form S-4 (No.
                  333-83349), filed on September 1, 1999).

  5.1             Opinion of King & Spalding as to the legality of the
                  securities being registered.

  23.1            Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP.

  23.2            Consent of King & Spalding (included in Exhibit 5.1).
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