#192 Jim Casey (Founder of UPS)

UPS was half a century old in nineteen fifty seven. In June of that year, I was a seventeen year old Californian. Right out of high school. and had already secured morning employment. Still, I complained to a neighbor who always wore a brown uniform,

That it needed an afternoon job, too. Why don't you go down to United Parcel? They always need guys to load and unload in the afternoons. So in June. I became a UPSer.

Even though I wouldn't be eighteen until July. Close enough, they said. And I was assigned to load a trailer in downtown Los Angeles. Starting at a dollar sixty two an hour. In August.

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