Archive for the ‘UPS Drivers’ Category
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Daniel Peterson of Redwood will collect more than a quarter of a million dollars in damages after the company and Peterson reached a settlement in a lawsuit he filed last year. United Package Smashers previously wrote about the incident here. Peterson, a UPS Mechanic, was fired after he put unsafe ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
UPS has been connected to drug crimes alot lately. Just a few days ago we ran a story about how UPS had found some parcels containing pot. Now comes a report that 14-year veteran UPS driver delivered more than just parcels: he also transported the occasional illicit substance. Police say ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Documents recently filed show UPS is taking steps to settle a lawsuit filed by a mechanic for the company who complained about unsafe UPS trucks. The mechanic, having found cracked or rusted frames on at least four UPS trucks, removed inspection certifications for those trucks and was fired four days ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
UPS Driver Paul Warren, 43, of Rockport, Maine filed a lawsuit against UPS after he was diagnosed with epilepsy. He won a jury verdict against the company back in 2007, now the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has upheld the riling. The crux of the issue involves ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Now this doesn't happen every day. A guy walking around with a pay stub in his pocket from UPS rival FedEx was recently arrested on a tip from a citizen as he broke into UPS trucks to steal packages with an accomplice. Apparently, one acted as the lookout while the ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Three thieves were arrested after they followed a United Parcel Service truck and stole boxes left at homes in New Dorp. Igor Roshko, 20, Simon Berman, 18, and Artur Velichko, 18, were in a car tailing the UPS truck at around 1:45 p.m. Wednesday, sources said. After the UPS worker ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
Five people shipped 330 pounds of pot and the occasional cocaine shipment through United Parcel Service using drop off n' ship stores, according to a report. Apparently, UPS detected the shipment and contacted the police, who setup various raids and stings to capture the five suspects, only to have them ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling by a lower court that declared that a Seventh-day Adventist worker was discriminated against for not working on Sabbath. Former driver for United Parcel Service (UPS), Todd Sturgill of Springdale, Arkansas, will keep his award of nearly US$104,000 in lost wages ...
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
As has been pointed out in this very informative video that is making its rounds on YouTube, put out by a site calling itself UPS Receipt, the UPS Delivery Confirmation process is wide open to tampering by anyone wishing to do so. Its unclear whether this site is being run ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
So here we have another great clip of UPS in action that has turned up on You Tube. This guy apparently installed a home security camera with the intent on catching a thief or something. Instead, he caught the UPS guy abusing his packages.
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