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The Englishman had a 14-year relationship with the global courier, with its logos on his shirts and bag. He began the PGA Championship without them.

Lee Westwood’s days of delivering the UPS message to golf fans worldwide appears to have ended this week at the PGA Championship.

The former world No. 1 has been requested by the global courier and logistics company to remove the familiar brown and gold logo from his shirt and bag.

The actions by UPS appear to be due to the 49-year-old’s decision to ask for a release from both the PGA Tour and DP World Tour to play in the first LIV Golf Invitational Series event in early June at Centurion Club outside of London.

Delays are coming from technology changes at a Lynchburg Distribution Center

Several people living and working in the Lynchburg area are frustrated and say they are having to wait longer to get UPS deliveries.

It’s especially difficult for those like Mitch Eggleston. He depends on UPS to get the items he needs for his Appomattox business, TShirtzNow.

“Most of our business is time-oriented. We need stuff,” Eggleston says. “We need to get it in and make sure we can get it to the customer on time. In those cases, it has hurt us. It has hurt us a lot.”

The Books for Kids program distributes more than 30,000 books a year now and has given away more than 100,000 books since 2013.

The truck pulled up in front of The UPS Store at 8429 Lorraine Road in Lakewood Ranch, and it was time for store owner Mike Hornyak to unload boxes of books.

Hornyak opened The UPS Store at the location in January, adding to his other locations on Palmbrush Trail in Lakewood Ranch and in western Bradenton. One of The UPS Store’s nationwide programs that started in 2022 was asking customers if they wanted to donate change by rounding up to the next dollar amount.

Store owners would send the donations to the national office in San Diego. When the store owners collected more than $1,500, they could request the donations be used locally in the area of their location.

Once, when United Parcel Service CEO Carol Tomé was reflecting on leadership earlier in her career, she said, “It is easy to get focused on you, but that is the wrong place to put your energy.”

If you are a leader, she said, the focus should be on your team.

Tomé has just been named this year’s recipient of the The Four Pillar Award, one of metro Atlanta’s top honors for regional leadership. It comes almost three years after she retired from a nearly 25-year career at The Home Depot (NYSE: HD). In 2020, she took over as the head of UPS. True to form, after receiving the leadership accolade, she focused the lens on the delivery giant’s 534,000 employees, saying in a statement they “move our world forward.”

The Council for Quality Growth, a trade organization that advocates for responsible economic development across the Atlanta region, will present the award to Tomé in October. Council for Quality Growth President and CEO Michael Paris said in a statement Tomé is a “true testament to corporate responsibility and visionary leadership.”