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You’ve probably seen two UPS trucks parked like this. Here’s what’s actually going on.

Peak holiday season has officially begun! And with the surge in online shopping there are even more delivery vehicles out on the roads than ever. You might soon spot something unexpected in a parking lot or on a side street near you: two trucks pulled close together, drivers transferring packages between them. (If they’re parked […]

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I never realized how dangerous my job was – until the crashes started adding up.

Earlier this month a UPS plane ‘was destroyed after it impacted the ground shortly after takeoff’ from Louisville, Kentucky, killing all three people on board. Along the path of destruction, eleven more lost their lives and twenty-three others suffered mostly minor but still life-altering injuries. Though it didn’t attribute a cause or make any safety […]

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Do you know your UPS driver’s name? Here’s why it matters.

This weekend a UPS driver named Mitch became an unlikely celebrity. It happened when Glen Powell, the latest guest host of NBC TV’s long-running comedy program Saturday Night Live (SNL), dedicated fully half of his five-plus-minute opening monologue to him. Apparently Mitch was on hand when Powell was first notified – four years earlier – […]