UPS`s Longest-Tenured Employee Working Final Week in "Browns"

On the Job Since 1946, Marty Peters Treated Every Package Like It Was His Own

DETROIT--(Business Wire)--
Long before dawn tomorrow, when Marty Peters pulls on his brown uniform for the
last time and heads for his final day on the job at UPS (NYSE:UPS), it will mark
the end of a remarkable career.

Peters, who turned 87 on Aug. 10, is the longest-tenured employee in the
company`s history, retiring with 63 years, five months and 29 days of service.
He`s retiring on UPS Founder`s Day - Aug. 28, the company`s 102nd anniversary --
and has seen much of the company`s history first-hand.

"Marty Peters is the quintessential dedicated UPS employee," said Scott Davis,
UPS`s chairman and CEO. "This is a man who went the extra mile, and kept right
on going. We sincerely thank him for his many years of service and congratulate
him on this incredible achievement."

When Peters started work at UPS in March 1946, the first Baby Boomers were still
in diapers. And now, in an age when the average job tenure in the United States
is barely four years, employees like Peters are rare indeed.

"I`ve treated every package as if it were my own," said Peters, who joined UPS
straight from service in the U.S. Army and World War II. Competition was fierce
then for delivery jobs that paid 95-cents an hour.

"There must have been about 10,000 of us coming out of the Army and trying to
get a job," Peters recalled. "That was a lot of money."

During the 1940s, Peters braved frigid Michigan winters in an air-cooled White
Horse delivery truck without a heater or a defroster. After that, he held a
variety of jobs from sorting packages and loading trucks to logging more than
1.4 million miles driving a tractor-trailer on a route between Detroit and Grand
Rapids.

A resident of Macomb Township, Mich., Peters for many years has worked a 3:30
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. shift at UPS`s Woodbridge Center in Detroit as a "shifter"
and a clerk. He spends most of his time behind the wheel of a tractor truck,
moving 50 to 70 trailers each day between loading docks at the center. Later,
Peters moves inside to help incorrectly addressed packages reach their intended
destinations.

Peters has seen a lot of changes in the way UPS drivers do their jobs. Chief
among them was the introduction of the Delivery Information Acquisition Device,
or DIAD, the small handheld computer that replaced the pen and paper used by
drivers to record pickups and deliveries.

An earlier technological change that had a major impact on Peters? The ballpoint
pen, which he said eliminated the need to carry a pocketknife for sharpening
pencils.

Peters and his wife, Christine, have been married since 1950 and have four
children, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

UPS (NYSE: UPS) is the world`s largest package delivery company and a global
leader in supply chain and freight services. With more than a century of
experience in transportation and logistics, UPS is a leading global trade expert
equipped with a broad portfolio of solutions. Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., UPS
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