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Boeing (NYSE: BA) on Tuesday announced the order via a news release, saying the purchase highlights the 767 Freighter’s “outstanding operational efficiency and payload capability to serve its customers at a time of robust air cargo demand.”

UPS Airlines is based out of Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. The logistics giant also bases its largest air package sorting hub, Worldport, at the airport.

“The Boeing 767 is the most versatile aircraft we operate,” UPS U.S. Operations President Nando Cesarone, said in a news release. “Our plan to purchase 19 aircraft and take delivery between 2023 and 2025 aligns with the strategy and capital expenditure forecast shared during our June 2021 Investor and Analyst Day. It also supports our sustainability efforts by making our fleet more efficient and improving reliability,” he said.

Every holiday season, shipping companies like UPS are swamped with packages to get out and to your loved ones.

As Jim Mayer with UPS explains, it takes a village, extra employees, tons of time and help from the senders who want to ensure their shipments aren’t sidetracked for any reason.

“We’ve hired 100,000 seasonal employees across the country, including there in Phoenix,” he said.

When it comes to packages, presents, cards, candies and more being shipped all over the world during the holiday season, extra hands are huge.

Members of a local UPS Facility in Bowling Green spent time on Saturday afternoon collecting tornado resources for those who were affected by last week’s tornadoes.

“We just want to take the opportunity to give back to the community through this effort and anything else that we can do,” said Kerry Young, one of the UPS drivers helping collect the donations.

Several local drivers spent the afternoon filling up two different trailer trucks with supplies, such as new and old clothing, diapers and formula, nonperishable food items and canned goods.

Young also spoke on what it means for him and for others involved to be able to be out collecting items donated.

A quick-thinking UPS driver alerted the Hasbrouck Heights Police, resulting in the arrest of three men on Friday morning.

Sergeant Daniel Kroncke was flagged down by a UPS driver on Friday, December 17 just before 11 a.m., stating that a dark-colored Honda Accord was following his truck and observed one of the occupants of the vehicle putting on a ski mask, according to Hasbrouck Heights Detective Sergeant John Behr.

Officers Nicholas Brunetti and Christopher Connors responded to the area along with Detective Sergeant Jeffrey Werner and Detective Joseph Armeli. A description of the vehicle was obtained and broadcasted to all cars.

The 21-year-old Warwick resident has found his passion in delivering smiles.

If you live in Warwick and regularly get deliveries from UPS, you most likely have received a delivery from Eric and his helper, James Allenson

James, a 21-year-old resident from Warwick living with autism, first met Eric Hellested when he was a toddler and would run out to greet the deliveryman. “I’ve been on this route for about twenty years, and I’ve known James since he was about two or three,” says Hellested. “He laughs at almost everything, he’s got a bit smile, and he’s always got a great disposition.”

As he grew up, his mother found he had developed a fond interest in the company when she and his stepfather would take him to see what they call the “UPS Train” leaving the Plan Way facility during school vacations and days off. “It had just been something we’d do as a field trip, we’d go watch the trucks come out,” says his mother, Shirlee Allenson. “Everything is UPS this, UPS that. You ask him to blow his nose, and it’s ‘What, my UPS nose?’”