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5-Year-Old’s ‘Refreshment Stop’ Shows Appreciation for FedEx, UPS Drivers - Transport Topics Jack Mahar loves delivery trucks and the people who drive them. The kindergartener at Hillside Elementary in Niskayuna, N.Y., had a delivery-themed fifth birthday party and one of the first words he...

Charlotte UPS Driver Gets “Signs” of Appreciation in Kenbridge - Southside Messenger While the COVID-19 has closed or shut down many businesses recently, one company that has been even busier than usual is UPS. The familiar brown trucks are seen delivering packages daily as people buy even more...

Fired after raising concerns about unsafe conditions, UPS whistleblower gets her job back - Burlington Free Press Marge Harvey got her job back. Harvey, a 33-year veteran driver for UPS in St. Johnsbury, was fired on April 10 after pushing management on unsafe conditions at her workplace...

Coronavirus kills several FedEx workers at Newark facility - Fox Several FedEx Corp. workers at the company's Newark, N.J., air hub have died due to complications of the coronavirus, a sign of the toll that the outbreak has taken on front-line delivery workers. The outbreak among FedEx workers...

UPS Drivers Of Sonoma-Marin 'Are My Rockstars': Local Heroes - Patch When times are tough, heroes emerge. We all know someone who's making a difference right now as we live through unprecedented times. Here at Patch, we've launched an initiative to help recognize these everyday heroes. This...

Frontline delivery - The Irish Echo No signature required. That’s one change in the life of Stephen Boland working on the frontline for United Parcel Service, aka UPS. His world has changed like everyone else’s, but it still involves a long commute to Lower Manhattan during the global...

UPS delivering like it's Christmas during coronavirus outbreak - WTSP As you're home, you may be shopping more online, which means those packages have to get delivered. One industry that is thriving right now are delivery services. Are you doing a lot of online shopping? Or maybe ordering...

‘Bagels for Boxes’ drive launched to support UPS drivers during coronavirus pandemic - SI Live Tammy Cope wanted to do something special for her husband, Stephen Cope, a UPS driver, and his colleagues as they deliver packages to Staten Islanders during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic...

First responders, public send off UPS drivers - Week East Peoria UPS drivers got a big send off before delivering packages Friday morning. First responders and residents lined the side of the road just to say thank you as they drove by. One organizer said they wanted to let UPS employees know...

UPS profit misses as stay-at-home orders fail to offset business deliveries drop - Bloomberg United Parcel Service Inc. reported a 13 per cent drop in first-quarter profit, to US$965 million, as stay-at-home orders generated deliveries to people's homes but not enough to offset the higher costs...

UPS slashes investment, buybacks amid coronavirus disruption - Reuters United Parcel Service Inc will slash $1 billion from this year’s capital spending budget and reduce planned share buybacks by almost $800 million as it adjusts to “unprecedented” changes wrought by the novel coronavirus...

DroneUp, UPS testing coronavirus medical supply delivery - Fox Business Drone solutions company DroneUp is getting together with UPS to test out delivering coronavirus medical supplies. DroneUp CEO Tom Walker told FOX Business’ Neil Cavuto the partnership sprouted from motivation to fill...

"I’m grateful for all the men and women in brown.": Parade honors local truck drivers - WYMT We hear about people stepping up to the plate in this time of need including doctors, nurses, and grocery store workers. Cars lined the street for a parade Thursday morning to show their respect for...

Despite massive demand and government aid, FedEx and UPS have cut hiring by as much as 62% - Thinknum "I'm working more than I ever have in almost 24 years," Jack Warren, a UPS driver in Providence, Rhode Island, told CNN. Because of ubiquitous stay-at-home orders, people are turning to...

'We're getting flat out hammered right now.' UPS employees on working during the pandemic - CNN At UPS, the most frantic time of year is typically around the winter holidays. Then things level off. But these days, as the coronavirus pandemic spurs American households and businesses to buy...

UPS driver says company fired her after she raised Covid-19 safety concerns - VT Digger A UPS driver in Vermont has filed whistleblower complaints after she was fired after raising Covid-19 safety concerns at the facility where she worked. Marge Harvey, who has worked with UPS since 1987, said...

Demand for delivery drivers skyrockets amid COVID-19, service crucial to SoCal during 'Stay Home' - ABC 7 With longer days and 'several hundred' more packages daily, a 30-year UPS delivery driver in Long Beach shows ABC7 the new normal during the coronavirus emergency. With so many people...

Greensboro UPS facility notifies health department, cleaning equipment after employee dies of illness - WXII 12 The Greensboro UPS facility notified the public health department and is cleaning its equipment after an employee died from illness Thursday. UPS would not confirm if the employee...

UPS Donating Respirator Masks to D.C. Department of Corrections and Miriam’s Kitchen - Business Insider UPS today announced the donation of 15,000 masks to the D.C. Department of Corrections and homeless services organization Miriam’s Kitchen. UPS has procured a sufficient supply to meet...

As deaths mount, delivery workers say they're kept in the dark over who's sick - NBC News Rumors about the manager with the virus started to spread around Worldport, UPS' sprawling air hub in Louisville, Kentucky, earlier this month. Employees texted one another to ask whether they'd heard...