Ever use this button when delivering?

Cementups · 08-21-2007, 08:03 PM

I had to use it one time about 8-9 years ago. I was actually delivering medicine to the guy. I'm walkng towards the apartment with my head down and when I got in the general proximity of hte front door I looked up and there was an EMT with a gurney and "something" under a sheet. He asked me who I was looking for and I told him his name and in an instant he responds, "You're too late."

DS · 08-21-2007, 08:28 PM

This is way off topic,but I cant think of a better place to mention it.One of my pickups had 2 police cars parked outside and when I went in a female police officer told me there'd been an accident and John had tried to fix the tension spring on the shipping door(like the ones in a p800,only on a bigger scale).He lost 3 fingers. There was blood everywhere,I said is it ok if I do my pickup?She looked at me like I was out of line,but let me.They managed to reattatch 2 fingers,and John thanked me a few days later for dragging all the stuff out the little door.
This can be a weird job,I bet some of you guys have similar stories.

longlunchguy · 08-22-2007, 07:28 AM

good thing you did the pick up... you might have gotten the finger

over9five · 08-22-2007, 01:09 PM

"you might have gotten the finger"

Doh! LOL

I didn't know there was a deceased option, but....

Once a looooooong time ago, I was deliverig a sig req to a house. There was a lot of sad people dressed in black. "God", I thought, "what an awful time to need a signature". Went to the door anyhow, and of course my package was for the deceased. "He won't be needing it", the guest who answered the door said.

Another time was a sig req also. Went to the door, rang. A very old woman answered, obviously hadn't slept, had been crying... Yep, the package was for her husband, who died yesterday.

Dirty Savage · 08-25-2007, 05:32 AM

Went to an apartment once, rang and was let in. Door opened and the lady told me that Mr. Smith had died so I sheeted the package as non-delivery, deceased. The next morning I got called to the office and my sup told me that we were not allowed to use any of those third screen options for non-deliveries. I was like, well, why the hell are they in the diads then? In the back of my mind I was thinking that this was just some other way to fudge numbers somehow, though it seemed really trivial.

And as someone else mentioned, I wish they'd add a driver release, "shed" option. And personally, for me anyways I wish they'd add "barbeque" as well.

over9five · 08-25-2007, 05:41 AM

"...my sup told me that we were not allowed to use any of those third screen options..."

Actually, this makes sense for the 'deceased' option. Imagine sending a package to a relative. Now imagine tracking it, and seeing the reason it wasn't delivered. What if you hadn't known??

Is this a good way to learn of your relatives death? Now that I've thought of this, I will most definately never sheet it that way.