<p>Marty Peters started delivering packages for UPS in Detroit in 1946. Sixty years later, the 83-year-old Macomb County man still wears the brown uniform.</p><p>Although he's no longer delivering packages, Peters will be honored next week as the longest-serving employee among the company's more than 400,000 workers.</p><p>Atlanta-based UPS Inc. is planning a breakfast in Peters' honor Tuesday, but he says all the fuss is unnecessary.</p><p>"I pay no attention to all of this," Peters, of Macomb Township, told the Detroit Free Press for a story published Friday. Instead, he has to worry about packages with illegible addresses and the loaded trucks that he has to move at the sprawling UPS facility in northeast Detroit.</p><p>Peters' career began March 7, 1946, at a time when returning World War II veterans were waiting in long lines for jobs. His experience working for the post office gave him an advantage, but he still wasn't sure he would get the job.</p><p>"The district manager asked me if I knew any streets in Detroit, and I rattled them off as quick as I could say my prayers," Peters said. "But then he just said, 'I'll give you a call.'"</p><p>By the time Peters got back home, the manager was calling, wanting him to start work that night.</p><p>Since 1991, Peters has worked mostly inside. He's adept at tracking down errant addresses and packages, said his boss, Bill Jones.</p><p>"You would never know he's the age he is," Jones said. "His knowledge of the city is really amazing."</p><p>Most UPS drivers stay with the company about 17 years, company spokesman Dan McMackin said. That's about four times longer than most employees stay at a private company, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.</p><p>Only two people have worked for UPS longer than Peters, the company said. Jim Casey, who founded UPS at age 19 in 1907, worked until his death in 1985, and Paul Oberkotter, the company's third chief executive officer, worked 60 years before stepping down.</p><p>Peters, who has a wife, four children, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, obviously isn't in a hurry to retire, but he says the time is coming.</p><p>"I don't think I'll see much more than a year more," he said. "But I still really enjoy it. I feel better today than I did 20 years ago."</p>
