The Madison County Sheriff’s Office has issued a public appeal for help in the disappearance of Charles H. “Chuck” McQuary, 56.
According to a statement from the sheriff’s office, McQuary left his home in North Zulch, Texas, at approximately 6:15 a.m. Aug. 2 and never showed up for his 9 a.m. shift in Cleveland, Texas. He is a UPS driver who makes local deliveries.
Authorities are particularly concerned about his safety after family members reportedly found a suicide note and a last will and testament.
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On any given day, UPS delivers roughly 21 million packages (far more in December), creating millions upon millions of data points as it tracks the real-time status of each of those packages as they move across the company’s shipping network.
In the past, UPS relied on historical data and know-how from expert planners to track package status, but that approach was imprecise and scaled poorly.
“The processes and approaches of the past are not going to help UPS adjust to the very dynamic nature of supply chain management today,” says UPS chief information and engineering officer (CIEO) Juan Perez. “Our customers today have much more complex supply chains. The movement of shipments from shippers to receivers is getting much more complex because of the way that products are distributed across the network. The customers are demanding more precision in terms of when we deliver things. The tolerance for failure in these networks is lower and lower.
As Congress deliberates on a bill to put the United States Postal Service on a better financial footing, competitor UPS is lobbying furiously to make things more difficult for its old nemesis.
The Postal Service has lost money every year since 2009, but a recent bright spot on its balance sheet is package delivery. It made about $11 billion in delivering packages in 2020, as Amazon and other delivery-dependent businesses boomed amid COVID-19.
The Postal Service did that by utilizing and expanding its existing systems and fleet for mail delivery. A bill pending before Congress called the Postal Service Reform Act of 2021 would codify this integrated way of doing business.
Kenya will be receiving 15 ultra-cold chain freezers from the US within the next two weeks as part of preparations for the rollout of Pfizer vaccines in the country.
The freezers from the UPS Foundation valued at more than Sh15 million, will be distributed to the central vaccines store in Kitengela and all the nine regional vaccines stores in the country.
Kenya is expecting 1.7 million doses of Pfizer this month from the US government through bilateral donations and another 271,440 doses allocated through the Covax facility.
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The Madison County Sheriff’s Office has issued a public appeal for help in the disappearance of Charles H. “Chuck” McQuary, 56.