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Formula One team Scuderia Ferrari have ended their nine-year partnership with US-based shipping firm UPS.
UPS has been Ferrari’s official logistics partner since 2013 and the deal was last renewed in 2017.
However, UPS is absent from Ferrari’s recently updated sponsor list on their website and the brand later confirmed it had ended its deal with the team to Sports Business Journal (SBJ).
With the holidays now over, UPS is turning its attention to handling millions of returns.
According to UPS, the shipping company will handle more than 60 million return packages from Nov. 14, 2021 to Jan. 22, 2022. The new record is a 10% increase from last year.
One in four Americans are expected to make a return. Of those returning items, 41% say they plan to return three or more items.
Despite snowy weather conditions like what the Quad Cities experienced over the weekend, delivery drivers are still out delivering packages.
Amy Cook, a local UPS driver, is urging people to be aware of who they share the roads with this winter.
She says delivery drivers are trained to drive through what are considered less-than-perfect conditions and also gave some tips for other drivers who are on the roads with them.
A special welcome home for a Tri-Cities veteran recovering from COVID-19.
UPS driver Jackson Randall has been in the hospital for the past four months battling COVID.
He returned home on Friday to a surprise parade. Neighbors and friends held signs and balloons, cheering as he made his way down the road.
Randall says he’s overwhelmed by the support he’s received.
Delivery company UPS has provided in-kind transportation for relief supplies to victims of Typhoon Odette, also known as Typhoon Rai, which has devasted many Filipino communities in Southern Philippines since mid-December. To date, UPS has flown seven flights from Clark to Cebu carrying over 40 tons of relief supplies.
Relief supplies include food packs, bottled drinking water, hygiene kits and other necessities that arrived at the UPS Hub in Manila and Clark. These donations were coordinated through the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation (PDRF) and came from organizations including the Jollibee Group Foundation, One Meralco Foundation, PricewaterhouseCoopers and The Aboitiz Foundation. Responding to an urgent need for aid, Semiconductor and Electronics Industries in the Philippines Foundation, Inc. and Air21 likewise reached out to UPS to airlift their relief supplies donation to Cebu.