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New UPS Approved Spirits Packaging offers wine and spirits producers peace of mind as they turn to ecommerce to reach new markets
UPS, a global leader in logistics, global packaging experts Sealed Air (SEE), Smurfit Kappa and top UK distributor Macfarlane Packaging are today launching a new range of packaging specially designed for shipping individual bottles of spirits and wine, to help producers in the UK and Ireland expand their markets and reach new customers.
Even under normal circumstances, summer can be a difficult time for UPS drivers – especially in a state like Georgia. These are most certainly not normal times, and an Atlanta area driver says under the additional burdens of the pandemic, the job is becoming unbearable.
The driver, who wished to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation, told 11Alive she normally loves her work.
But now, she says, it has “become a very exhausting job mentally and physically – very hard days, very long days actually now. It’s kind of just taking over our bodies.”
Langston Walbuck knows the routine: stand on the balcony and wait for a package. But sadly, Langston never gets one from his neighborhood UPS driver Hector Velasco.
“I came right up to your neighbors and he’s like ‘I want one too!’ I felt like I couldn’t do anything at the time, but I’m like you know what, let me see if I can try to bright his day, you know what I mean,” said Velasco.
Seeing Langston’s sadness, Velasco decided to rummage around for something to deliver leaving a note for his parents promising a special delivery the next day.
Inside the special delivery: toy race cars and candy.
“It made me feel special,” said Langston.
On behalf of UPS employees and retirees, the following is a statement from UPS Chief Executive Officer, Carol Tomé.
“The city of Atlanta, this nation, and the rest of the world mourns the loss of the iconic John Robert Lewis. Congressman Lewis was a tireless champion in the Civil Rights movement, whose never-ending fight for equality and justice improved the lives of millions of Americans. He was a kind and decent man who always had kind and decent words for the employees of UPS. Congressman Lewis led by example and embodied the very best of America’s ideals.
Kansas City Regional Clean Cities is lending a hand with urban clean fuel projects for UPS in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska. We’ll try and keep the superlatives to a minimum: UPS is the biggest for-hire freight trucking company in North America—by revenue ($71.9 billion in 2019), by income ($4.8 billion) and by employee count (481,000). FedEx is a close second, but from there, it’s a long way down to the next in line. XPO Logistics, ranked #3 by Transport Topics, has less than one-quarter the revenue, fewer than one-quarter the employees, and for 2019 had less than one-tenth the income of Big Brown. UPS operates nearly 125,000 vehicles globally. These range from Class 8 tractors to motorcycles, and they handle long-haul freight, cross-town courier deliveries, and everything in between. When a company this big moves towards alternative fuels, it does so in a big way. To date, UPS has embraced propane, hybrid-electric and hydraulic hybrid, ethanol, liquefied natural gas (LNG), compressed natural gas (CNG), and all-electric technologies in different locations and duty cycles. Through 2019, they’d already put more than 10,300 alternative fuel and advanced technology units on the road – not quite ten percent of their global fleet.