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An alert UPS driver is being credited with saving a man and his child from a house fire on Thursday afternoon.
Fire officials say UPS driver Jeremy Brandt was on his route when he spotted smoke coming from 1821 Allison Drive. They say Brandt pounded on the door of the home, waking up a man who was sleeping inside along with a young child.
A United Parcel Service (UPS) employee allegedly kicked out a Spanish-speaking woman for communicating in her native tongue, the customer said.
Rebecca Prinstein visited a Miami branch of the package delivery company where she allegedly engaged in a heated exchange with a UPS employee after he requested for her to leave for speaking Spanish. Prinstein recorded the incident, which was later shared by both her husband and friend to Facebook.
The Teamsters union wants to prohibit United Parcel Service Inc. from using drones or driverless vehicles to deliver packages.
That was one of the labor union’s initial demands as it kicked off high-stakes contract talks with UPS this week. The Teamsters also want the parcel giant to eliminate late-night deliveries and add another 10,000 workers to the ranks, among other things.
The two sides are starting to negotiate one of the largest collective bargaining agreements in the U.S., which covers around 260,000 UPS employees and expires in July. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ National Negotiating Committee this week submitted to UPS an 83-page document updating the prior agreement.
Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications Kamal bin Ahmed received a delegation representing the United Parcel Service (UPS), in the presence of Bahrain Airport Company (BAC) Chief Executive Officer Mohamed Yousif Al Binfalah, and representatives from Bahrain Economic Board (EDB) and BAC.
They discussed UPS’s future plans in Bahrain, including the development of its cargo services at the Bahrain International Airport (BIA), and its aim to increase the volume of shipments to and from the country.
If your delivery arrived late this holiday season, you aren’t alone. A post-holiday analysis of deliveries performed by LateShipment.com found that both UPS and FedEx struggled to process record-high delivery volumes.
The shipment-tracking company’s CEO Sriram Sridhar said that, when it came to ground shipments, both UPS and FedEx, “had alarmingly high late delivery rates during the holiday season, with many major common shipping types performing two to three times worse than other time periods during the year.”