Teamster Magazine recently got in touch with Dennis D’Ambrogio about a story for the UPS Teamster magazine, and in the process of getting to know him, discovered he has a whole slew of tattoos relevant to this blog.

He not only has a couple of Teamster tattoos, but a few UPS ones as well, proving, like this guy, that being proud of your union and of your employer isn’t mutually exclusive.

Here’s what D’Ambrogio, who started at UPS part-time in 1987 and went full-time package driving in 1989, had to say about his ink:

“The first tattoos were done in San Diego while I was on two weeks Navy Reserve active duty for training around 1996. I know this because I remember putting a red felt marker circle and slash through [the UPS logo] for the strike of 1997,” he wrote.

“I got the Paul Rand 1961 UPS logo and the I.B.T. logo in San Diego (1996) on the bicep and tricep, diametrically opposed so when you’re looking at one, you can’t see the other (at that time it seemed to me that the union and the company couldn’t even agree on SAFETY!). 

“I got the 1937 (art deco) logo tattooed in Hawaii on Navy submarine maneuvers in Pearl Harbor in 2000. Next came the Teamsters under the horseshoe on the shoulder. Then the smaller 2003 UPS current logo and the 1919 motorcycle delivery logo on my chest.”

If you’ve got a Teamster tattoo, or know someone who does, e-mail a photo of it, or mail it to Teamster Magazine, 25 Louisiana Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001, and we’ll run it on this blog.

For other Teamster tattoos, look here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.