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A UPS driver was delivering packages in Clackamas, Oregon, on Monday when he heard what sounded like a woman screaming inside a residence.
The driver, Lee Purdy, paused on the street to listen. Sure enough, once again, he heard, “Help! Help!” He didn’t know what was going on.
He called his wife and explained the unusual situation. He told her he wasn’t sure the voice sounded real. But she called 911 just to be safe.
Bikes are a very contentious issue in Pittsburgh. So much so that Pittsburgh’s 2017 mayoral primary had candidates run on anti bike-lane messaging. But bike proponents are moving ahead anyway. Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, a champion of bike lanes, dominated his anti-bike challengers in the May primary elections and won re-election on Nov. 7. U.S. Census figures show the city’s bike commuters increased by more than 50 percent from 2015 to 2016.
And now delivery giant United Parcel Service (UPS), is getting in on the bike action. Starting Nov. 9, Downtown Pittsburgh will be home to UPS’s only year-round delivery route that utilizes an electric-assist bike-cart in the U.S.
According to Washington Police Department spokesman Ed Kantor, the incident occurred approximately 4:15 p.m. at the intersection of Washington Fields Road and Indian Springs Drive.
Neither driver was seriously hurt in the crash, but the Volkswagen driver was taken by private vehicle to receive further medical evaluation, Kantor said, adding there were no apparent injuries to the UPS truck driver. The drivers were the only occupants of the respective vehicles, he said.
The female driver of the Volkswagen received a citation for failure to yield, Kantor said.
The upcoming holiday period is shaping up to be another record-breaking shipping season. In fact, United Parcel Service (UPS) forecasts 750 million packages will be delivered between Black Friday and New Year’s Eve, a 5% increase from last year.
Despite the expected increase in volume, UPS expects to hire the same number of temporary seasonal workers as last year (95,000).
“Last year we hired about the same number of people and we’re doing it this year with an extra 5% of packages and it is because of automation,” UPS CEO David Abney told Yahoo Finance.