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A UPS driver from Colorado Springs is dead after a rollover crash on Highway 94 Thursday night.

Troopers said the crash happened just before 9 p.m. on Highway 94 about three miles east of Ellicott. Troopers said a UPS delivery truck was headed westbound when it went off the right side of the road and rolled, ejecting the driver.

The driver, 71-year-old Don Buckner of Colorado Springs, was flown to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Online orders are through the roof during this pandemic, almost literally at the UPS distribution center in Warwick.

According to workers there, 136,000 packages have piled up and staff can’t keep up with demand.

“There’s probably 46 to 50 trailers sitting in the yard that haven’t even been tapped into yet,” said Matt Maini, a business agent for Teamsters Local 251.

Many of those deliveries to homes and businesses are late. Customers are showing their frustration.

United Parcel Service employees were surprised with a “Flash Thank you mob” May 21, 2020, by family and friends, members of the United Way of Central Georgia and members of the Macon=Bibb County Fire Department to start their work day,

As UPS shares, an attitude of gratitude has emerged in Canada, with people recognizing and expressing their appreciation of the hard work of dedicated delivery drivers.

On every day of the COVID-19 pandemic, delivery drivers and delivery workers are putting themselves right on the front-lines, ensuring that our cities remain functional and our people are supported in staying the course of staying at home.

Through their essential work, goods and supplies can continue to come into communities, keeping services and businesses running and keeping people connected with one another during this crisis. In many cases, delivery workers are the bridge between us and the outside world, acting as the door-to-door messengers for those in self-isolation.

Shipping giant UPS said it is testing drone delivery services in an effort that could have significant implications for the nation’s wireless network operators.

In a virtual presentation Tuesday at the Wireless Infrastructure Association’s Connect (X) trade show, UPS’s Bala Ganesh said that the company has conducted several drone tests since obtaining US government approval in late 2019 to operate a drone airline.

“We’ve been working on this for five years,” Ganesh, the VP of UPS’s Advanced Technology Group, said in his presentation. “Today we are delivering.”