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UPS drivers using personal vehicles, moving trucks to make deliveries – KWTX

The next time you order a package from UPS, it could be delivered by someone driving a vehicle other than the usual brown truck.

With the increase in shipping this holiday season, some workers are using their personal vehicles or moving trucks to deliver packages.

“Almost 50 rental trucks that are either from Penske or Budget, right now that we are using. We have regular/full-time UPS drivers operating some of those and some seasonal drivers. And then we also have around 13 personal vehicle drivers and they are hired by UPS seasonally,” said Wayne Ptaszek, on-road supervisor at UPS’s Belton facility.

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Singing UPS Driver Spreads Christmas Cheer in Naperville – NBC Chicago

A local delivery driver is bringing joy to his customers with holiday cheer and music.

Brett Batts works for UPS and is becoming known as “Mr. Christmas” for singing to package recipients in Naperville.

“When they allow me to, I will definitely do it,” Batts said. “I’m always moving. So when I see that little window open, I seize the moment.”

A video of Batts singing a Christmas song to customers inside a clothing store in Naperville recently went viral on social media.

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Surprise! Squirrel Gives UPS Driver A Friendly Welcome – CBS Chicago

A Chicagoan’s Ring app caught an unexpectedly friendly moment on Wednesday when a squirrel jumped onto the back of a UPS driver as he made a delivery.

Amanda Atkins, who lives in Lincoln Square, told CBS 2 she was having dental work done when she received a notification on her phone informing her someone had pressed the doorbell of her home.

When Atkins looked at the phone, she could not believe from eyes: at her front door was a UPS driver with a squirrel on his back. The squirrel had jumped from her fence onto the man’s shoulder.

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UPS Press Release

UPS Super Hubs And New Network Technologies Enabling Superior On-Time Delivery Performance

  • Facility expansions and retrofits add 350,000 piece-per-hour throughput in U.S.
  • Network visibility tools and leading-edge analytics align volume and capacity
  • UPS network performing at levels comparable to non-peak periods, while processing record volume
  • UPS confident in sustained on-time performance during the critical holiday period

UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced the company has achieved superior on-time delivery performance this holiday season through its unprecedented capacity expansion and new technology deployment. UPS is able to deliver record volume in a timely fashion thanks to greater collaboration with customers, improved network resource utilization, new automated capacity and the dedication of UPS employees around the world.

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UPS Deploys Purpose-Built Navigation For UPS Service Personnel

UPSNav optimizes entire routes, providing turn-by-turn directions to loading docks and other preferred delivery and pickup locations

UPS (NYSE:UPS) today said it has integrated a new navigation tool called UPSNav into the handheld device its package delivery drivers carry, providing them with detailed turn-by-turn directions derived from UPS’s routing software. UPSNav reduces miles driven, fuel consumed and carbon emissions, while empowering the company to provide better service to its customers.

UPSNav is a significant update to UPS’s On-Road Integrated Optimization and Navigation (ORION), which determines the optimal order for local UPS® package car drivers to make deliveries and pickups. With the new navigation tool, ORION gives drivers directions to all those stops in precise detail – even to loading docks and receiving areas that are often on opposite sides of a building’s main entrance. UPSNav provides UPS drivers with a new level of accuracy and precision, which enables them to operate at top efficiency. It also improves the customer experience and opens the UPS platform to provide new products and services.