Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
UPS Discussions
Now and Then
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Sammie" data-source="post: 274989" data-attributes="member: 8657"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">While rearranging the basement over the weekend to make room </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">for a dryer delivery, I found a box of old “Big Ideas”. For those of you fairly new to the scene, these were UPS magazines sent out every other month with news of the company in general and of our particular districts. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Here are a couple of tidbits from the November ’85 issue - </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">(I'll have more of these later)....</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><em>In the ‘60’s and 70’s in the Pacific region, off duty firemen, policemen and others were hired to set up the Christmas loads </em></span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><em>(bulk stops) that wouldn’t fit in the sort bins (predecessors of </em></span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><em>today’s boxlines). </em></span></span></p><p></p><p><em><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Retired </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Chicago</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> driver Andy Lips recalls “We sometimes slept in our trucks during peak and covered up with furniture blankets. All the drivers helped each other so we could get home at a decent time on Christmas Day. If a package came gift wrapped, we never tore the paper or the ribbon. If a package had a picture of a toy on it, we taped over the picture.”</span></span></em></p><p></p><p></p><p><em><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Bill Mooney, a 20 year mechanic from </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">New York City</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">, recalls that </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">“Every Christmas Eve I slept in the center because the trucks didn't get in until 10 or </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">11 pm</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">, and I, being the mechanic, had to get the cars ready to roll on Christmas Day. Many times, around 2 or </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">3 am</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">, I would push myself out from under a car to find Jim Casey standing there with a container of coffee for me”. </span></span></em></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">My, how times have changed!!!</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sammie, post: 274989, member: 8657"] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]While rearranging the basement over the weekend to make room [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]for a dryer delivery, I found a box of old “Big Ideas”. For those of you fairly new to the scene, these were UPS magazines sent out every other month with news of the company in general and of our particular districts. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Here are a couple of tidbits from the November ’85 issue - [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana](I'll have more of these later)....[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][I]In the ‘60’s and 70’s in the Pacific region, off duty firemen, policemen and others were hired to set up the Christmas loads [/I][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][I](bulk stops) that wouldn’t fit in the sort bins (predecessors of [/I][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][I]today’s boxlines). [/I][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][/COLOR] [I][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Retired [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Chicago[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] driver Andy Lips recalls “We sometimes slept in our trucks during peak and covered up with furniture blankets. All the drivers helped each other so we could get home at a decent time on Christmas Day. If a package came gift wrapped, we never tore the paper or the ribbon. If a package had a picture of a toy on it, we taped over the picture.”[/FONT][/COLOR][/I] [COLOR=black][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][/COLOR] [I][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Bill Mooney, a 20 year mechanic from [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]New York City[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana], recalls that [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]“Every Christmas Eve I slept in the center because the trucks didn't get in until 10 or [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]11 pm[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana], and I, being the mechanic, had to get the cars ready to roll on Christmas Day. Many times, around 2 or [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]3 am[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana], I would push myself out from under a car to find Jim Casey standing there with a container of coffee for me”. [/FONT][/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=black][/COLOR][/I] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]My, how times have changed!!![/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
UPS Discussions
Now and Then
Top