Let me hear your UPS stories: funny, scary, interesting

[mcdow58]

I am starting a project and I would love to have some help from all of you. We all know we have a unique job where we see, hear and experience some pretty unique things. I know I have a few and I am only one person with 15 years out there. I would appreciate it if anyone had a strory or experience that they could share with me. I would like to gather all of them and put them all together in the future. Thanks in advance for your help. You can send any response to mcdow_enterprises@yahoo.com. Thanks again

Brian

[Dizzee]

A tale of tragedy, sorrow, desperation, and the triumph of the human spirit.

http://www.browncafe.com/forum/ups_d...tml#post461377

or read the next post.

[Hoaxster]

WARNING: The Following is Not Safe for Children Who May be Reading Over Your Shoulder

I was asked one day, when I reported for my afternoon P/U route, if I could start a few minutes early. “I need you to P/U a misdel and re-deliver to the correct address” my CM said. “Sure, no problem”, I replied. CM says “Make sure you have some tape, the lady says she opened the package before she realized it wasn’t hers”. “OK, I’ll take care of it” I respond.

The address is one of those “low income housing developments” in the hood. A dozen large buildings, all close together. I park the P-5 in the lot, about 200’ from the address I’m looking for. There is a long straight sidewalk between 2 buildings, leading to the apartment.


At this point I’m feeling good about my “good deed” for the day (getting this package to the correct person). I notice that the correct apartment is right across the sidewalk from the wrong one. “Cool” I’m thinking, this will be quick and easy…. WRONG.

As I raise my hand to knock on the door, the door opens, and there she is. A good ¼ ton of orange and purple Muumuu wearing woman. Before I can say hello, she says, “They told you the package was open, right”? “Yes Ma’am”, I reply. She then thrusts a completely shredded, yellow envelope into my hands, along with 2 DVDs. I remember the title of the top one was “Lays of Thunder”, and both had naked women on the covers. So now I’m thinking, “Yikes, how embarrassing for both of us”. Little did I know, what she was about to hand me… That’s right… It was a foot and a half, if it was an inch. Complete “twig and berries” with a suction cup on the non-business end. The door slams.

There I am. Alone. Standing in the middle of this complex, on a bright, sunny, spring day, porn videos in one hand, elephant trunk in the other. I can’t take it to the correct apartment without repackaging it. Where’s my tape gun? In the truck. Where’s my truck? 200’ away, a tiny little brown speck in the distance. It’s going to be a loooong walk.

So, off I go, just me and my new friend, trying to walk as quickly as I can, trying not to break into an all out sprint. My thinking was, if someone sees me running with this thing, in this neighborhood, they’ll think I stole it. I’m trying my best to be inconspicuous, but this thing is not cooperating with me. It seems to have a life of its own. It’s wobbling and flopping around like some kind of alien life form. What seems like 20 minutes later, I’m back at the truck, but, I don’t want anyone to see me take this thing into the back of my truck to repackage it. So I set the DVDs down on the step and stuck the appendage to the side of the door by its suction cup. Left it hanging there, like some kind of bizarre “Curb Feeler”, while I got an Express Pak from the back of my truck to repackage the “goods”.

The redelivery was uneventful, but, I did notice the original receiver watching me through her blinds.

[hurricanegunner]

I was delivering embalming fluid to a funeral home one day. The owner opened the door and let me and told me to take the boxes down the hall, third door on the left. I said sure, no problem. I walk down the hall and turn left at the third door. Then I freeze.... In front of me are two dead bodies, on tables. One male, one female. Both naked. I'm thinking this must be some sort of mistake. They can't possibly expect me to come in here with dead bodies. The relatives of these people would be mortified! As I'm backing out of the room, the owner comes racing down the hall, out of breath. "I meant the second door on the left! The second door!"
We both apologized profusely and I never went to the third door on the left again.

[MonavieLeaker]

[raceanoncr]

How bout this for scary?

Applied off the street in 1978 because construction (earthmoving) was going downhill, locally. Been here, now, for 31 years. Now, THAT'S scary!!!!

AND, stupid!

[deathracer]

kind of funny depending on what side your on.
well it was 2 weeks after my training and i was put to sort on a belt30 feet above the ground, so im working regularly kind of light flow and i feel something on my leg im guessing its a package that fell of the belt i look and dont see anything look down further through the metal grid and dont see anything on the ground. at that point im thinking ok what the hell just happened so i shrug it off and start sorting again then i feel the samething felt like a hand grabbing me sure enough i see an arm reaching at my leg then it leaves im scared and thinking *** was that where did that come from. i check it was my training supervisor on a beam laughing his ass off at me. he used the belt below to climb on to the beam to reach me as the belt below is too far away wich is why he couldnt really get me the first time.

[PTer4Ever]

A couple years back I went to a baseball game out of town with a few coworkers. We came back the next night to learn of a tragedy that happened in the yard. A woman was struck by a feeder and killed. This happened right next to one of the outdoor break areas at the same time we would have been there if we had not been at the game. Other people from our crew saw it happen...just sickening.

[City Driver]

kind of funny depending on what side your on.
well it was 2 weeks after my training and i was put to sort on a belt30 feet above the ground, so im working regularly kind of light flow and i feel something on my leg im guessing its a package that fell of the belt i look and dont see anything look down further through the metal grid and dont see anything on the ground. at that point im thinking ok what the hell just happened so i shrug it off and start sorting again then i feel the samething felt like a hand grabbing me sure enough i see an arm reaching at my leg then it leaves im scared and thinking *** was that where did that come from. i check it was my training supervisor on a beam laughing his ass off at me. he used the belt below to climb on to the beam to reach me as the belt below is too far away wich is why he couldnt really get me the first time.

i hope he atleast kept 3 points of contact when he did this

oh wait hes management he can do whatever the hell he wants

[deathracer]

i hope he atleast kept 3 points of contact when he did this

oh wait hes management he can do whatever the hell he wants

only reason i didn't say anything besides ppl laughing at me for getting scared like i did was because he's good friends with my brother but he just comes walking the rollers and laughs at me some more the other that was sorting with me was just looking at both of us like we were crazy cause he didn't know what just happened.