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Wishes Delivered helps a mom provide hope to LGBTQ community
Sara Cunningham believes in the power of a hug.
She knows a hug, a kind word or simply a note of inspiration can help people, particularly those in the LGBTQ community who feel their life won’t be, or isn’t, accepted by their friends and family.
“Jake is so worthy and capable, so it’s just awesome for others to be able to see that,” Amy Hyde says of her brother and his new gig
A man with Down syndrome is proving naysayers wrong — and his latest accomplishment is landing a gig with UPS!
Jake Pratt recently marked a new life accomplishment when he earned a job working for the nationwide delivery service as a package runner, his sister Amy Hyde tells PEOPLE.
Hyde first tweeted about Pratt’s new job Tuesday, explaining that her 21-year-old brother works every morning at a golf course from 6-10 a.m. before running packages at UPS for up to eight hours per day.
Delivery giant instructed drivers not to pick up some packages on Cyber Monday as pandemic fueled online shopping
United Parcel Service Inc. imposed shipping restrictions on some large retailers such as Gap Inc. and Nike Inc. this week, an early sign that the pandemic-fueled online shopping season is stretching delivery networks to their limits.
The delivery giant UPS on Cyber Monday notified drivers across the U.S. to stop picking up packages at six retailers, including L.L. Bean Inc., Hot Topic Inc., New Egg Inc. and Macy’s Inc, according to an internal message reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and confirmed by UPS workers in different regions. “No exceptions,” the message said.
The move comes during a holiday season when retailers are increasingly dependent on delivery companies to move online orders as store traffic plummets during the coronavirus pandemic, a dynamic that has shifted power significantly. UPS and rival FedEx Corp. have raised prices and promised to hold merchants to volume agreements.
UPS has announced logistics service enhancements to aid in the massive distribution efforts for COVID-19 vaccines in the coming months. UPS Healthcare now can produce up to 1,200 pounds of dry ice per hour in its U.S. facilities to support the storage and transportation of cold chain products, such as frozen vaccines, in accordance with manufacturer storage requirements.
The increased production also allows UPS to make dry ice available for U.S. and Canadian hospitals, clinics and other points of care requiring dry ice to store vaccines locally. Dry ice will be sourced at UPS Worldport and can be available next day.
According to UPS, a major spike in demand is causing logistics providers to plan for what some analysts fear may be a dry ice shortage, as pharmaceutical companies strategize getting hundreds of millions of their vaccine doses safely to communities around the U.S. and internationally.
A UPS driver on his route helped prevent a garage fire from getting much worse Monday afternoon.
The driver was on his usual route on Red Maple Drive at around 1 p.m. when he saw flames coming from the corner of a garage and called 911.
The Fairport Fire Department says when they arrived, the attached garage was fully-involved and there was some spread into the house.