Also, a release number. Easy to pad stop counts.
Old Time UPS.
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Also, a release number. Easy to pad stop counts.
Brown Rocket
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Yeah. "I know 500 stops is a ton. In my day 300 was unbelievable. And in my day the trucks didn't fly."
5 cent coffee? How long ago was that? What was it like at UPS during WWI?
5 cent coffee? How long ago was that? What was it like at UPS during WWI?
I think the 5 cent coffee & pop was in 1976 or so. This was at a customers location.
We nicknamed our furniture truck we had left in our center, ORCA. It was used to deliver the mall route.
Leftinbuilding
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We called all our container trucks "The Hun".
ORCA the whale was "big" back then.
rod
Retired 22 years
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Here G.Shepard seemed to be everywhere signing for packages.
and that brings to mind that when I started, they took hand writing samples of all applicants.
Old Man Jingles
Rat out of a cage
In my center it was D. Knob.
We used to have a mall driver that "B. Hill" would appear out of nowhere and sign for about everything. This was after he kicked the hell out of the rear doors in the service hall and the store employees wouldn't come to the door. For other reasons, he is "no longer with the company".
ol'browneye
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I knew which companies had the 25 cent soda machines for their employees. And who had the best bathrooms. Now I'm on a rural route so the whole world is my bathroom!
Remember the old one time pickups sheets. You had to peel off the shipper number and ID label and put one on every pkg. I had a 1xpu for a third floor office one time. Over 400 boxes all weighing 40-60 lbs. Another driver met me and it took us 3 hours to do that stop. Luckily, back then mngmt could use their own heads and they sent us both out with light split cars so we would be done early enough to go do this stop!
Remember the old one time pickups sheets. You had to peel off the shipper number and ID label and put one on every pkg. I had a 1xpu for a third floor office one time. Over 400 boxes all weighing 40-60 lbs. Another driver met me and it took us 3 hours to do that stop. Luckily, back then mngmt could use their own heads and they sent us both out with light split cars so we would be done early enough to go do this stop!
Dustyroads
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Remember when we were required to fill out a misload card every day? In the early days they were kind of beige colored, and then they changed them to the blue variety.
I'm not sure if it was a regional thing, but back in the 80's, in the rural areas we delivered fireworks in the week or 10 days before the 4th. I think the fireworks companies sent flyers to every rural postal customer, and those two weeks were as heavy as Christmas for rural drivers.
I'm not sure if it was a regional thing, but back in the 80's, in the rural areas we delivered fireworks in the week or 10 days before the 4th. I think the fireworks companies sent flyers to every rural postal customer, and those two weeks were as heavy as Christmas for rural drivers.
ol'browneye
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Yeah, I remember delivering fireworks!
Dustyroads
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The days we had fireworks the haz mat pouch was full of five part form copies.
Brown Rocket
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I don't think I could control myself and not hve fun with some of the fireworks.
Dustyroads
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Here's an old delivery notice from the late 70's-early 80's. Thanks spif91!
Dustyroads
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Here's a little later one, dated '93, one of the first sticky notes, still taking cash with this one, I see. Thanks, again!
