Category: UPS News

A quick-thinking UPS driver alerted the Hasbrouck Heights Police, resulting in the arrest of three men on Friday morning.

Sergeant Daniel Kroncke was flagged down by a UPS driver on Friday, December 17 just before 11 a.m., stating that a dark-colored Honda Accord was following his truck and observed one of the occupants of the vehicle putting on a ski mask, according to Hasbrouck Heights Detective Sergeant John Behr.

Officers Nicholas Brunetti and Christopher Connors responded to the area along with Detective Sergeant Jeffrey Werner and Detective Joseph Armeli. A description of the vehicle was obtained and broadcasted to all cars.

The 21-year-old Warwick resident has found his passion in delivering smiles.

If you live in Warwick and regularly get deliveries from UPS, you most likely have received a delivery from Eric and his helper, James Allenson

James, a 21-year-old resident from Warwick living with autism, first met Eric Hellested when he was a toddler and would run out to greet the deliveryman. “I’ve been on this route for about twenty years, and I’ve known James since he was about two or three,” says Hellested. “He laughs at almost everything, he’s got a bit smile, and he’s always got a great disposition.”

As he grew up, his mother found he had developed a fond interest in the company when she and his stepfather would take him to see what they call the “UPS Train” leaving the Plan Way facility during school vacations and days off. “It had just been something we’d do as a field trip, we’d go watch the trucks come out,” says his mother, Shirlee Allenson. “Everything is UPS this, UPS that. You ask him to blow his nose, and it’s ‘What, my UPS nose?’”

Package delivery service United Parcel Service (UPS) has made quite a name for itself over the years. It’s one of a handful of companies that keeps the e-commerce movement alive and well.

During the pandemic it was a godsend, connecting people to goods without having to actually go anywhere. Now, some new love from the analyst sector is giving UPS a fresh lease on life. I’m also bullish on UPS, because this company has already demonstrated just how effective it can be.

Based on the year in UPS stock prices so far, UPS has had a banner year. It spent most of the first quarter of 2021 plateaued down around the $150 mark. As March ended, so too began a new renaissance for UPS. The company started climbing, slowly at first, then with surprising alacrity.

An alleged UPS driver has started a debate online with his viral TikTok that has already garnered 2.4 million views. In the video, he showed a full truck of packages in the morning, and by the afternoon, it’s a lot of bare shelves. Some viewers have sympathy for the driver, while others don’t seem that impressed.

The video began with TikToker @aiden_m365 facing the camera in his truck as he wears a UPS uniform and walked to his seat. The screen read, “Idk why they get paid so much. All they do is deliver packages. Can’t be that hard.” Accompanied by the song Own Brand Freestyle by FelixThe1st and Dreya Mac, the video’s creator showed a full truck bed of packages all over the place on shelves and on the floor. The screen read that it’s 8:45 a.m. at the time. However, fast forward to 2:45 p.m., and viewers can see that the shelves are bare without packages in a six-hour timespan.

According to Glassdoor, package delivery drivers make an average of $47,833 a year. However, this total can vary from $30,000 to $76,000 a year. But UPS drivers make about $62,733 a year, which is higher than the average for package delivery drivers.

A delivery truck driver received the surprise of a lifetime Thursday morning.

What seemed to be a normal delivery route for Tracy Buksar was actually a surprise appreciation project organized by the East Grand Rapids Community.

Buksar had no idea what was going on as she pulled into the parking lot at Wealthy Elementary School.

News 8 was on scene to meet her, but she thought the crew was there for a “fun project.”

Buksar walked into the school office with her wide smile and upbeat step and was greeted by a team of school staff, community members and supervisors who were all there to celebrate her.