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<blockquote data-quote="Big Babooba" data-source="post: 764211" data-attributes="member: 5402"><p><strong>Re: Ups security guards</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: darkred"><strong>If I don't know the area and the house doesn't have a number, then I will not deliver it if nobody is home. I would rather bring it back than have a follow up on the package. </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: darkred"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: darkred"><strong>Logic does not come into play. I have a street on my current route where 9 & 7 are across the street from each other and 9 is between 10 & 14. Another route has a road where the odd and even sides flip-flop three times. I had a route where I delivered to the actual street addresses of a town and another building delivered to the mailing addresses that the Postal Service gave them. (a different town out of our service area). Another route I did had 5 towns. Town A and Town B both had a road with the same name. The roads were miles apart. Both had a # 65. No problem right? WRONG!!! Both would come addressed to Town C that didn't have a street by that name! To make matters worse, both addresses were rental properties that were rented out to students from the area colleges so every year there were new names to sort out. </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: darkred"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: darkred"><strong>As far as knocking on doors, I've found that some people want to help, some people don't want to be bothered, some people I wouldn't trust as far as I could throw them and some people are just plain creepy - so I don't bother. If they want their package bad enough, then they should have a house number displayed.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: darkred"><strong></strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Babooba, post: 764211, member: 5402"] [b]Re: Ups security guards[/b] [COLOR=darkred][B]If I don't know the area and the house doesn't have a number, then I will not deliver it if nobody is home. I would rather bring it back than have a follow up on the package. Logic does not come into play. I have a street on my current route where 9 & 7 are across the street from each other and 9 is between 10 & 14. Another route has a road where the odd and even sides flip-flop three times. I had a route where I delivered to the actual street addresses of a town and another building delivered to the mailing addresses that the Postal Service gave them. (a different town out of our service area). Another route I did had 5 towns. Town A and Town B both had a road with the same name. The roads were miles apart. Both had a # 65. No problem right? WRONG!!! Both would come addressed to Town C that didn't have a street by that name! To make matters worse, both addresses were rental properties that were rented out to students from the area colleges so every year there were new names to sort out. As far as knocking on doors, I've found that some people want to help, some people don't want to be bothered, some people I wouldn't trust as far as I could throw them and some people are just plain creepy - so I don't bother. If they want their package bad enough, then they should have a house number displayed. [/B][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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