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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 4468561" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.grunge.com/204445/the-worst-things-about-being-a-ups-driver/" target="_blank"><strong>The worst things about being a UPS driver - Grunge</strong></a></p><p></p><p>It didn't used to be United Parcel Service. UPS started out as the American Messenger Company, back in 1907, in Seattle, Washington. No brown uniforms or distinctive step vans. Deliveries were on foot or, for longer trips, bicycles. No word about whether the bikes were painted brown, either. UPS is considerably more than that these days — literally a global corporation, with its own airline and fleets of other vehicles. They'll deliver most anywhere, including the North Pole, using just about any means of transportation necessary (including drones); according to the company's website, UPS has "about 125,000 package cars, vans, tractors, (and) motorcycles" at its beck and call. The company boasts nearly a half-million employees, over 400,000 of whom work in the United States itself. Of those, it's a safe bet that the delivery staff are the individuals most of us encounter most of the time. And deliver they do — in 2019, 3.5 million packages and documents per day. No doubt the numbers are bigger this year — but that doesn't mean the job is any easier.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 4468561, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.grunge.com/204445/the-worst-things-about-being-a-ups-driver/'][B]The worst things about being a UPS driver - Grunge[/B][/URL] It didn't used to be United Parcel Service. UPS started out as the American Messenger Company, back in 1907, in Seattle, Washington. No brown uniforms or distinctive step vans. Deliveries were on foot or, for longer trips, bicycles. No word about whether the bikes were painted brown, either. UPS is considerably more than that these days — literally a global corporation, with its own airline and fleets of other vehicles. They'll deliver most anywhere, including the North Pole, using just about any means of transportation necessary (including drones); according to the company's website, UPS has "about 125,000 package cars, vans, tractors, (and) motorcycles" at its beck and call. The company boasts nearly a half-million employees, over 400,000 of whom work in the United States itself. Of those, it's a safe bet that the delivery staff are the individuals most of us encounter most of the time. And deliver they do — in 2019, 3.5 million packages and documents per day. No doubt the numbers are bigger this year — but that doesn't mean the job is any easier. [/QUOTE]
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