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• New York UPS delivery man Anthony Lupi, 28, says he receives up to 10 date invitations a day on his daily Soho route
• The former model, who stands at 6ft 2, has worked for UPS for five years
• He says his customers get angry when he’s rerouted and call his manager to complain and demand he be restored to his regular five-block route
• Lupi receives compliments from his fans and passerby for his looks and charm
• He has to politely decline his suitors because he has a girlfriend of eight years  
• ‘I’m very flattered, but I have to keep it moving,’ Lupi said 

Marek Różycki (Last Mile Experts) and I preview our seminar and workshop at Parcel+Post Expo this year, including:

• Unattended delivery (in-car, in-home) vs out-of-home delivery

• Delivery density and the advantage of being first to market

• Customer experience in delivery

Cathy Morrow Roberson, founder and lead analyst at Logistics Trends & Insights, joins me to discuss UPS’s recently announced delivery initiatives

It’s not deliveries that keep the ladies of Soho waiting with bated breath for their man in brown: It’s UPS driver Anthony Lupi himself.

In fact, the strapping 28-year-old former model is so beloved that customers along his five-block route throw a fit every time he’s temporarily transferred, ­going so far as to complain to his manager.

“We want Anthony and no one else,” said one of the complainants, who owns a prominent gallery on West Broadway but wished to stay anonymous. “Not only is he super cute and charming, but he always goes the extra mile.”

The UPS slogan was once “What Can Brown Do For You?” But over the past week, the family of 53-year-old Rob Long has been finding out what the community can do for a UPS driver.

Nikki Cross is used to seeing Long in the truck next to her every morning at UPS’s Lenexa hub.

“He’s just friendly, always waving, always smiling, always happy,” Cross said.

But for the past three months, Long has been out of work and in treatment for the CADM form of Interstitial Lung Disease.

It is the first time the agency has fined UPS for heat exposure in years, despite the company reporting more than 100 heat-related hospitalizations since 2015.

UPS, the world’s largest delivery company, is being cited by federal regulators for exposing its drivers to “excessive heat” for the first time in years, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Tuesday.

UPS faces $13,260 in penalties, “the maximum penalty allowed by law for a serious violation,” according to an OSHA press release. The federal agency has the authority to issue citations for violation of workplace safety standards.

In July, an NBC News investigation revealed that more than 100 UPS employees were hospitalized for serious heat-related injuries between 2015 and 2018, more than any other company in the country except the U.S. Postal Service. UPS, which has almost 400,000 employees — 74,000 of them delivery drivers — does not air condition most of its warehouses or its brown delivery trucks, whose cargo areas can reach 150 degrees, drivers said.