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<blockquote data-quote="OLDMAN3" data-source="post: 1621709"><p>-Pens were black ink only, because carbon copy is blue.</p><p>-Bulkhead and rear doors were secured with a padlock that was ice cold in winter.</p><p>-6 cubes had wood shelves for slivers under your fingernails.</p><p>-Beepers were not invented yet.</p><p>-0 missed stops for the first 5 years I drove...really.</p><p>-Chain to measure packages too large for UPS+50 lb limit</p><p>-Call tags only for packages originally sent UPS</p><p>-"ready customers", Call tags, Metro pickups the only ways to ship</p><p>-manually total stops, pkgs etc at end of day</p><p>-Perfect sheeting or void the whole line</p><p>-Fur tag pickups for stinky old ladies</p><p>-Your route/streets were well defined, anything else had to be cut to you.</p><p>-Paper delivery records sucked in the rain</p><p>-Manual transmission with a choke, manual steering, hard clutch.</p><p>-Bankers clip secured records to clipboard, cut COD tags and had a hundred "MacGyver" uses</p><p>8:15 start, 5:30 punch out most days unless you ran and got it in at 4:00</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OLDMAN3, post: 1621709"] -Pens were black ink only, because carbon copy is blue. -Bulkhead and rear doors were secured with a padlock that was ice cold in winter. -6 cubes had wood shelves for slivers under your fingernails. -Beepers were not invented yet. -0 missed stops for the first 5 years I drove...really. -Chain to measure packages too large for UPS+50 lb limit -Call tags only for packages originally sent UPS -"ready customers", Call tags, Metro pickups the only ways to ship -manually total stops, pkgs etc at end of day -Perfect sheeting or void the whole line -Fur tag pickups for stinky old ladies -Your route/streets were well defined, anything else had to be cut to you. -Paper delivery records sucked in the rain -Manual transmission with a choke, manual steering, hard clutch. -Bankers clip secured records to clipboard, cut COD tags and had a hundred "MacGyver" uses 8:15 start, 5:30 punch out most days unless you ran and got it in at 4:00 [/QUOTE]
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