Brown wasn't always UPS's color: Here's why it is now

(NEXSTAR) - UPS is one of the most popular brands in America, and easily recognizable thanks largely in part to the company's primary color - brown. It's a color we've grown accustomed to seeing on the company's delivery trucks, drivers, and semis, and anything else with UPS's branding.
But brown wasn't always the color you'd see on a UPS truck.
It all started 115 years ago when UPS was started in Seattle by two teenagers, Claude Ryan and Jim Casey. Then, the company was first known as the Ameri