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We’ve all been there – you’ve got a little bit carried away with your online shopping and now have to somehow justify your spending habits to your partner when you can barely explain them to yourself. We get it.

Alternatively, you could sneakily ask your delivery driver to hide your parcels so your other half in order to save yourself that awkward conversation entirely.

Mum-of-four Alexis Thomas knows a thing or two about this after she went a little overboard on Amazon Prime Day last month.

James Joseph, a UPS driver in Baton Rouge, proudly carries on his mother’s passion and is dedicated to making Louisiana a safer place.

Thanks to her example, James, better known as “Big Brown,” has spread so much love around Louisiana in his 21 years at UPS that he was recently bestowed UPS’s highest honor for volunteerism—the Jim Casey Community Service Award, named in honor of our company’s founder.

While driving his package car around, Joseph says, he notices things that need to be changed and he wants to make a difference.

United Parcel Service Inc. landed permits Friday to create a distribution facility in Southside.

The city approved renovation permits for United Parcel Service Inc. at 9431 Florida Mining Blvd. E. in South Jacksonville.

Haskew Company & Associates is the contractor for the $2.7 million project to renovate 244,000 square feet and build a mezzanine foundation.

The UPS center, known as Project Danville in City Council legislation adopted in January, is described as a $50 million investment comprising $5 million for real estate improvements and $45 million for machinery, equipment, furniture and fixtures.