Category: UPS News

A Harlingen UPS driver was recognized for a significant milestone on Tuesday. Pablo Sanchez has driven nearly 2 million miles without a single blemish on his driving record.

Sanchez has been delivered packages across the Rio Grande Valley for the last 49 years and was even one of the original eight employees hired when UPS first came to the Valley.

“We were responsible for everything,” he recalls. “Washing the trucks, filling them up, unloading the trailers, loading the trucks, [and] delivering all day. Now we’ve got different people for different jobs.”

While he said, a lot has changed, from how the job works to the places he delivers to around Willacy County, every day of the near half-century is enjoyable.

A Jacksonville father is being mourned after his family said he gave his own life for his two children.

Larry Dupree, 31, was swimming in the water with two of his four kids when the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said a rip current pulled the three individuals further out from shore around 1:45 pm on Sunday.

Beachgoers formed a human chain in an effort to save the two children, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

He was a UPS driver for several years..

Independent Health and UPS are looking to hire.

Independent Health and an affiliate company, Nova Healthcare Administrators, are filling a combined 57 full-time customer service positions by late May or June.

And UPS plans to hire for more than 100 permanent, part-time package handling positions in Buffalo at its James E. Casey Drive facility in Lovejoy.

Both companies are trying to hire at a time when the region’s unemployment rate is 7.3%, but many employers say they are struggling to find people to fill positions. The region still has about 33,000 fewer jobs than it had in February 2020, before the Covid-19 pandemic caused widespread job losses last spring.

As a package delivery driver, Pablo Sanchez, 70, says he’s navigated through various situations when it comes to safe driving.

He’s experienced being on the road near others who are distracted by their phones and trying to avoid nilgai and other wildlife during late night routes.

Sanchez said he’s even experienced a buzzard smashing through his windshield that tried to fight him.

He says being a delivery driver involves long hours that some people probably wouldn’t want to do, but he just happens to be one who does.

In his face I see America. I see work. I see resilience. I see a drive that is envied. I see a man with Down Syndrome who has just landed a permanent job with a major company.

The news was made official Thursday evening.

Jake Pratt, a 22-year-old from Vestavia Hills, Alabama has landed his dream job. That’s 22 years after his parents were told that he didn’t have a chance. Twenty-two years after doctors told Jay and Kathy Pratt not to expect much.

Jake Pratt has proved them all wrong. He’s a high school grad, an alum of Life College at Clemson University. And now, it’s been made official. Not holiday help, but a career. Not a fleeting gig, but a life.