A UPS delivery driver left a new mom with a sweet surprise while dropping off a delivery. But what he didn't expect was for his kind gesture, which he offered on a whim, to be returned with amplified enthusiasm.
Dallen Harrell was driving on his route through a local neighborhood when he saw a stork sign planted in the front yard of a house, announcing the birth of a baby boy.
“If this is the ‘It’s a Boy’ house … I hope all is going well with your newborn,” he said after walking up to the couple's Nest security camera. “I had a child at around the same time you guys did, and I just hope everything is going good. God bless and happy holidays.”
The mom said his kind message was the exact pick-me-up she needed.
Jessica Kitchel lived in the home. According to WSB-TV, Kitchel had recently given birth to her son Chancy and was at home recovering from her C-section surgery when she noticed a new video on her doorbell camera. The message was the exact pick-me-up she needed to hear. Upon receiving the note, she uploaded the video online, hoping to be connected with the man who left the kind words, and within hours, it went viral.
"It is really easy to focus on what isn’t going right now with staffing storages but it was good to be reminded that there are still great people working hard every day for us!" Kitchel wrote on Instagram. "I really wish I knew his name but I hope he comes back and if he does there will be diapers waiting for him!"
Kitchel reached out to UPS, who gave her the driver's name. Harrell was a temporary driver helping with the large number of deliveries around the holidays.
Harrell and Kitchel later spoke over the phone, and he revealed he and his fiancée Taqueria Robinson-Davidson had delivered their son, baby Deveraux, in September.
Kitchel decides to repay his kindness.
Kitchel decided to return the favor by putting together a care package for the driver's family, including a box of diapers, wipes and a stuffed giraffe, and left it on her porch for the next pickup. Harrel came back to drop off another package and left after meeting the whole Kitchel family.
The mom also posted the links to Harrell's baby registries online, and shortly after, packages started rushing in from all over for baby Deveraux.
"The packages have started to arrive for Dallen!" Kitchell said in an update, according to a post on Instagram. "This delivery driver told him half the truck belonged to him!! (I think it’s kind of funny he works for Fedex) This is just the beginning. you guys are amazing!!"
