You can't make this stuff up
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Route 66
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'The World On Time - (As Long As the Local Gas Station Has Maps)'
Yup! that's the way to run a worldwide delivery organization. Sounds a bit like one of those Federal Express folklore tales of yore...."went in and snagged me a Rand McNally of the town after I filled up the ol' company van using my personal Master Charge"
Yup! that's the way to run a worldwide delivery organization. Sounds a bit like one of those Federal Express folklore tales of yore...."went in and snagged me a Rand McNally of the town after I filled up the ol' company van using my personal Master Charge"
Purplepackage
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Most companies that made maps have been going out of business the past few years, everyone has this new thing called a gps
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Virescit Vulnere Virtus
Give me a paper map any day. Only time I use GPS is to look up a new street.
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Virescit Vulnere Virtus
Do you guys know that if you have an accident in a driveway that it's an automatic warning letter and a one day unpaid suspension? Happened to someone in my station.
MAKAVELI
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Maybe that person should not drive down driveways.
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Virescit Vulnere Virtus
Sounds very simplistic until you find out that the person has a rural route.
Purplepackage
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I'm very cautious about driveways, we have some routes way out in the sticks if I go down it once and have trouble turning around its a mailbox stop from that point on
MAKAVELI
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It is pretty simplistic. If one can't drive down a driveway without hitting something, they shouldn't drive down it.
Purplepackage
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Our rural routes already have help and it's not even thanksgiving, if I have over 80 stops every stop is a mailbox stop actually
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Virescit Vulnere Virtus
You remind me of a former friend of mine. No matter how wonderful something was, she always had to find the negative and point it out. It must be mentally draining to be around you for long.
It will be fine
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Sounds like a great incentive to not report accidents in driveways. Best way to improve a manger's accident frequency.
MAKAVELI
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I guess it's so wonderful to be suspended.
What I posted is just common sense. Take it however you want.
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Virescit Vulnere Virtus
I guess it's so wonderful to be suspended.
I'll ask her and let you know.
whenIgetthere
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Manager here told me they can't find anyone who prints the local map books anymore. Guess with GPS, they aren't making money doing so these days.
whenIgetthere
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I got stuck in a loose sand driveway once, manager asked me why I drove up it. House was mile from the road, that's why.
MAKAVELI
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Getting stuck and hitting something are two completely different things.
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
That's a bit drastic, but two points:
1. It's pretty hard to have an accident in a driveway. You back into it just enough to get off the road, maybe a little more if it's a long drive. Maybe nose-in if you know that you have adequate room to turn around.
2. Knowing the consequences, why not eliminate some of the risk?
It's real easy to talk about staying out of driveways but depending on where you are that would be the equivalent of staying on the main road and walking off every side road.
You shouldn't be getting in driveway accidents though. There's no traffic so you should be able to safely navigate.
What do you do if they aren't served by the post office or if the mailboxes for their street are all out on the main road?
AllOnTheHorses
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Sad.
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