This is the best place to be sitting if your plane is about to crash

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Investigators examining damage to the engine of a Southwest Airlines plane in Philadelphia on April 17, 2018.

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This package shipped from Mississippi to Michigan — via Puerto Rico. Here's why some shipments go on circuitous journeys.

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Out of the roughly 59 million packages shipped every day in the US, an estimated 150,000 go astray.

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UPS CEO addresses dangerous heat inside trucks and contentious weekend deliveries as a driver strike threatens to upend millions of deliveries

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A UPS driver keeps a towel on his head while driving along Broadway during warm weather on July 6, 2012 in New york City.
Dangerous heat inside delivery vans has been a focus for the Teamsters since a 24-year-old driver died of heat stroke in June.

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UPS soared through the pandemic — but its biggest challenge in 25 years is still to come

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UPS CEO Carol Tomé sits in a UPS delivery van on a package route ride-along.
CEO Carol Tomé (left) has made UPS a success story throughout the pandemic — but a looming fight with the Teamsters spells a different kind of challenge.

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UPS plants fake packages to catch delivery mistakes — and calls it 'salting'

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SALTIing is supposed to be a constant effort to catch simple mistakes and bad behavior, but managers often ramp up in areas struggling with performance, according to former managers and multiple drivers.

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