Feeding animals on your route. On topic only...please.

[Indecisi0n]

Can/has someone been fired for this? It directly goes against ups policy, but have there ever been anyone disciplined for it?

Negative goose.

 

[MC4YOU2]

It's an open secret everywhere I'd think. Like those that do their sorting on lunch. I always had dog treats as a cover and bid driver. In my center, the drivers that gave treats to their dogs on route were generally happier people. I think you miss out on life a little by not treating at least a few dogs. I also understand some drivers don't like dogs too, and it's not risk free, but nothing is.

 

[Turdferguson]

View attachment 77034 Great Dane . He's huge.

Next to your tiny hands everything looks huge

 

[Indecisi0n]

I don't get it , If you don't like dogs and the animal is out then leave the customers packages at the mailbox. I do this for customers dogs I don't trust.

 

[slappyhappy]

The previous driver on my route has been feeding the dogs for years. I don't mind feeding them. I leave a box of treats in my package car for the cover driver.

Anyone who runs my route has used their seniority to bump someone else off of it. So they are making a choice to be on a "dog" route. I maintain a 2 week supply of biscuits in the car, so all the relief driver has to do is put a few in his pocket and get to work.

Thanks for doing that. All the a-holes here take their box of treats when they go on vacation. It pisses me off.

 

[Overpaid Union Thug]

Thanks for doing that. All the a-holes here take their box of treats when they go on vacation. It pisses me off.

I quit carrying them in my truck because the cover drivers would use almost a whole box (as well as raiding my other supplies that I no longer keep in the truck) and wouldn't replace what they used.

For me a box of treats would last at least three or four months (sometimes longer) because I wouldn't give them to every single dog I encountered. But I'd take a day off and leave a full box in the truck and it'd be half empty the next day. And empty after a week vacation. That is ridiculous.

People that give treats to every dog every day are the reason every single dog in those areas are hyper every single time a delivery truck rolls onto their property. I've had to fend off so many dogs for that reason. Sometimes they are worse than the mean dogs. The treats should only be used for aggressive dogs that won't let us approach the delivery point. I don't even bother with treats now. If I can't get to the delivery point without having to whack the dog on the head (which I hate doing) then the alternative is as simple as sheeting as NI and leaving.

 

[Scottyhawk]

Ok, how about this guy who showed up last week

 

[BakerMayfield2018]

Wut do @hyena 's eat????

 

[hyena]

Wut do @hyena 's eat????

P*

 

[hyena]

P*

And Steak (medium - medium rare) hamburgers , bacon , chicken wings etc. you know a lot of the same things you eat

 

[BakerMayfield2018]

And Steak (medium - medium rare) hamburgers , bacon , chicken wings etc. you know a lot of the same things you eat

When you say "hamburgers" do you really mean meatballs ???

@IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U

 

[hyena]

When you say "hamburgers" do you really mean meatballs ???

@IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U

How many times do we have to go over this? They were bigger then they looked in the pics

 

[Tiny Panda]

These two manage to open the office door and are out at the truck before i've even selected a package

http://instagr.am/p/5uRUNlpayL/

This one scares the other delivery guys apparently, luckily i knew her when she lived with the 2 labs above

http://instagr.am/p/5zAveGpax4/

 

[soberups]

Thanks for doing that. All the a-holes here take their box of treats when they go on vacation. It pisses me off.

I go through at least one box of treats per week, sometimes two. So I buy in bulk when they are on sale and stockpile them. I currently have 6 unopened boxes in my locker, ready to go into the truck when my treat tote gets low. When I go on vacation I pack every nook and cranny in the truck with boxes of treats for the cover drivers. I have several customers whose dogs are frequent treat recipients who also buy me boxes of treats and leave them on the porch. And I get several boxes as Xmas "gifts" from dog-owning customers.

Am I overdoing it? You be the judge. I spend about as much on treats per week as a lot of people spend on Starbucks in a day. Zero dog bites in 29 years--zero cover drivers on my route bitten--zero dogs run over. I like those numbers.

 

[gman042]

I go through at least one box of treats per week, sometimes two. So I buy in bulk when they are on sale and stockpile them. I currently have 6 unopened boxes in my locker, ready to go into the truck when my treat tote gets low. When I go on vacation I pack every nook and cranny in the truck with boxes of treats for the cover drivers. I have several customers whose dogs are frequent treat recipients who also buy me boxes of treats and leave them on the porch. And I get several boxes as Xmas "gifts" from dog-owning customers.

Am I overdoing it? You be the judge. I spend about as much on treats per week as a lot of people spend on Starbucks in a day. Zero dog bites in 29 years--zero cover drivers on my route bitten--zero dogs run over. I like those numbers.

I feed about every dog that I encounter. I have been bit a few times but these were years ago while covering other routes. Routes on which the regular drivers care for the dogs and treat them kindly differ a great deal from routes which the regular driver is a dog hater.
Now, inherited my current route from a driver that spent 20+ years preparing the dogs by feeding them. They don't bother me and I treat them kindly with a treat. I even give them a friendly pat on the head.
There have been occasions that no amount of dog treats or kindness can convince a truly bad natured dog to see things my way. Case in point....a couple of weeks ago there were 2 aggressive dogs at residence. Usually the people will come out if you honk. This time they did not. In past experience with these critters I have been able to distract them with treats long enough to make it to the door and back to the truck. Not this time.....and thankfully the people came out and saved my butt. Why keep dogs like this BTW.
However.....there have been occasions where treats have won over aggressive dogs and they now allow me on the property with nary a bark.

 

[Orion inc.]

I go through at least one box of treats per week, sometimes two. So I buy in bulk when they are on sale and stockpile them. I currently have 6 unopened boxes in my locker, ready to go into the truck when my treat tote gets low. When I go on vacation I pack every nook and cranny in the truck with boxes of treats for the cover drivers. I have several customers whose dogs are frequent treat recipients who also buy me boxes of treats and leave them on the porch. And I get several boxes as Xmas "gifts" from dog-owning customers.

Am I overdoing it? You be the judge. I spend about as much on treats per week as a lot of people spend on Starbucks in a day. Zero dog bites in 29 years--zero cover drivers on my route bitten--zero dogs run over. I like those numbers.

Costco sells them in bulk.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Would dog treats be considered an unreimbursed job expense for income tax purposes?

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Would dog treats be considered an unreimbursed job expense for income tax purposes?

Did you really just ask that?

 

[Johney]

Would dog treats be considered an unreimbursed job expense for income tax purposes?

Sure is, gets me an extra $1000 on my tax return every year.

 

[hellfire]

View attachment 77034 Great Dane . He's huge.

that floor looks like things would stick it...what goes on in that truck of horrors?