The UPS Man in Brown Everyone in New Glarus Knows

For nine years, UPS driver Mark Cooper has been a steady face in New Glarus, building trust with residents, businesses, kids and pets through long days, hard work and simple kindness.

The UPS Man in Brown Everyone in New Glarus Knows
Mark Cooper, a UPS driver with over 37 years on the job, including the past nine years serving the New Glarus community, has become a familiar and much-appreciated face in the community, where residents know him not only for delivering packages, but for the kindness and trust he has built over time along the way.

Some jobs are easy to overlook until the person doing them becomes part of the place itself. In New Glarus, Mark Cooper is one of those people.

For the past nine years, Cooper has delivered UPS packages in New Glarus, part of a 37-year career with the company. Before that, he spent about 20 years delivering in Madison, then chose a country route closer to home and, in some ways, closer to his own roots. “New Glarus reminded me of the town I grew up in in Germany,” he said.

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