UPS Widget - Brown Cafe

packagemanuk · 12-12-2007, 01:47 AM

UPS recently ran a competition in Europe to unofficially name the UPS widget, a little screenmate that helps keep track of your shipments.

Is it well-known in the States and Canada?

The name chosen, at random, was Brownie!

upsgrunt · 12-12-2007, 04:52 AM

Please God, no

freeloader · 12-12-2007, 05:11 AM

what is he? a turd? sort of like mr hanky?

Big Babooba · 12-12-2007, 06:04 AM

Widget sees everything? Widget must be in Loss Prevention.

browniehound · 12-12-2007, 10:55 AM

When I first saw the title of the post I got very interested. I thought maybe you were a bean counter on the inside that was going to enlighten us on how UPS plans its operations.

In business school a "widget" is a fictional item that a company produces. I thought you were going to tell us what a "widget" at UPS would be.

Obviously our product is service, but I was thinking our operations were based on an average (and price weighted) of all our services from EAM to ground. And I thought you were going to tell us that.

I was dissapointed to learn you are talking about a freaking puppet. God help me.

Brownie

12-12-2007, 01:56 PM

It is not a pupet, nor is it a piece of Christmas Poo; it is an application you load on your desktop that keeps track of RSS feeds, news, and UPS packages you track

http://www.ups.com/widget

thebrownbox · 12-12-2007, 04:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr Hanky 1000

It is not a pupet, nor is it a piece of Christmas Poo; it is an application you load on your desktop that keeps track of RSS feeds, news, and UPS packages you track

http://www.ups.com/widget

I already have a program like that but it tracks more then one shipping company helpful in many ways.

over9five · 12-12-2007, 04:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cachsux

Over here in the God fearing side of the hemisphere we call that a virus.

OK, THAT was funny!!!!!!!

Mike23 · 07-26-2009, 10:07 AM

I know this thread is out of date but I didn't want to make a new one for the announcement. IT'S COMING TO CANADA! God save us all before it becomes this:

Warning, there is the F word in this but we all feel the same way about Microsofts paperclip:

YouTube - Microsoft Word Paper Clip