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Does anybody remember delivering all those cases of Diet Pepsi?
Using pay phones to "collect call the center"... Three time cards stapled together because you had some many areas on a "world split"! Do the new guys even know what a area map is?
How about when the PTers and FTers got the same wage? Then the contract of 1981 came. UPS offered a signing bonus ($1000 to FTers and $500 to PTers to sign the new contract) to establish a two tier wage system, (which is where the $8 an hr. for PTers came into play) which I believe was overwhelmingly endorsed by us all.
I think UPS will offer a new signing bonus to get us to vote in their new contract. They can afford it.
Yeah, I remember we had pallets of them sitting around. I also remember one year when we delivered phonebooks, each one of them had a specific delivery address.
These were "Defined Areas", I think we still have them. My first route had four different ones on it, you had to start a new paper delivery record when you crossed into a different area. Two copies of each delivery sheet, one original and the other was a copy made with carbon paper. If the consignee wanted a receipt, we had to take out a second piece of carbon paper and make a third copy.
$350.00 take home for PT.I remenber everyone being really disappointed when the $1,000 "bonus" check turned out to be about $665 after taxes.
When we would get phone books, we would have split cars with 150 stops of just phone books. This was back when we were on paper, and let me tell you, it's hard to sort and set up 150 phone books and have them stay in the order you sorted them.
which had a cheap label with a carbon print you could hardly read,,,and another shopping bag pkg !!360 021- Sears!