Pottery Barn Must Die...

1989 · 07-06-2008, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by upsgrunt

I think it's funny when you happen to drive by a house that a rookie has already delivered one of those huge Pottery Barn boxes to and you can see it clear as day by the front door with a 2 foot by 1 foot mat on top of it. THAT'S a good release! The mat makes it special!

The mat is like a hat to keep it dry.

Mike Hawk · 07-06-2008, 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by 1989

The mat is like a hat to keep it dry.

Depending on the doormat, might look better than the new UPS hat.

Big Babooba · 07-06-2008, 11:05 PM

I had a delivery once that had 2 PB boxes the size of caskets. They took up the middle of a P1000. I made it my 4th stop after Penneys, Walmart and Barnes & Noble. Nobody was home so I left them by the garage. On another route, I was given a 45 package bulk stop for a vacuum cleaner dealer. It bulked out my 700. As I was unloading, the owner noticed a crushed corner on one box and refused the whole shipment. He would not accept the other packages no matter what I did to get him to take them. I scanned them all in as refused and threw my air in the cab (they were all letters). I reloaded the truck and called the center to bring up an empty as I was dead in the water after I did my air.Another driver who had a less than half full 1000 met me and took care of my problem.

JustTired · 07-07-2008, 03:52 AM

And to think I could have been a brain surgeon.......

.....or a fry cook. Jethro (circa 1967)

dino · 07-07-2008, 04:21 AM

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Originally Posted by upsgrunt

I think it's funny when you happen to drive by a house that a rookie has already delivered one of those huge Pottery Barn boxes to and you can see it clear as day by the front door with a 2 foot by 1 foot mat on top of it. THAT'S a good release! The mat makes it special!

That's the same logic that a little child uses when they have done something wrong and they close their eyes tightly so you can't find them.

filthpig · 07-07-2008, 04:24 AM

About 4 weeks ago the guy next to me go 2 PB boxes that were the size of refrigerators only taller. They had to use a bob truck to deliver them because you could not fit both on a P1000.

New Englander · 07-07-2008, 04:36 AM

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Originally Posted by filthpig

About 4 weeks ago the guy next to me go 2 PB boxes that were the size of refrigerators only taller. They had to use a bob truck to deliver them because you could not fit both on a P1000.

Pottery barn and sleep number! Yuck!

upsdude · 07-07-2008, 05:10 AM

Fortunately my house call areas aren’t really the Pottery Barn type. LOL. I’m with the others though, DR driveway.

Think about it this way, thieves are lazy by nature, no way in *ell they’re going to use any energy carrying a PB box.

But Benefits Are Great! · 07-07-2008, 02:29 PM

I wish to apologize to anyone I may have offended with the title of my post "Pottery Barn Must Die"

Although I had assumed this would be understood by anyone with the intelligence of a turnip, I of course wish no ill-will towards any pottery barn employees, UPS salespeople, cardboard box manufacturers, or whoever packed the bathroom-sized box on my truck last Thursday.

Pottery Barn, as well as all UPS customers, are the ones that indirectly pay my salary by sending these wino-condos thru our system, and I wish to express here and now that my comments were immature, foolish, and thoughtless.

I sincerely apologize for having offended the UPS salesperson, Pottery Barn, UPS, other posters, dead people, and winos.

M

(This is in response to an actual complaint I received regarding my thread title, which I at first thought was a joke. It was not)

But Benefits Are Great! · 07-07-2008, 02:40 PM

Dammit - I apologize to any winos reading the BC forum. It was insensitive of me. I meant alcohol-challenged temporarily nomadical carbon based life forms.

helenofcalifornia · 07-07-2008, 03:03 PM

You are kidding me about someone complaining about this thread?? People getting a little too sensitive in here, or should we say, "politically correct." Lighten up people, it was meant as a joke. And the doormat on top of the PB boxes is funny. A little hat. Cute!

Lobofan5 · 07-07-2008, 03:25 PM

That is the BEST thread title I have ever read on here.

I spent every Tuesday last peak unloading the pottery barn trailer and scanning the 17,999 packages on it.

over9five · 07-08-2008, 07:39 AM

This is a great thread! I can't believe some ~~loser~~, uhhhh someone complained.

old brown shoe · 07-08-2008, 08:29 AM

Seems like PB delivery is always one of the last stops of the day. Running a rural route you cannot just break off route to get it off the truck. So you end up having to pull it out several times a day to get the other bulk out of your truck then load it back in. By the time you deliver it the dust covering it makes it look like it was shipped from tomb.

soberups · 07-08-2008, 07:38 PM

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Originally Posted by old brown shoe

Seems like PB delivery is always one of the last stops of the day. Running a rural route you cannot just break off route to get it off the truck. So you end up having to pull it out several times a day to get the other bulk out of your truck then load it back in. By the time you deliver it the dust covering it makes it look like it was shipped from tomb.

I have driven 25 miles off trace to get rid of a Pottery Barn order. I remember one time when the packages were pretty beat up and I couldnt take the chance that the customer would refuse them and leave me buried....so I was as quiet as possible until I unloaded the last one, then I rang the bell and ran like hell to get back to the truck before they came to the door.

thebrownbox · 07-09-2008, 09:16 AM

I had to hell a coworker put about 50 pottery barn boxes in the 54footer it sucked because it all just came down at once...

not knowing what pottery barn was when I first started UPS I went home to look it up..

bulky furniture and house ware..

I feel for some of the drivers that have to deliver this stuff.

govols019 · 07-09-2008, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by soberups

I have driven 25 miles off trace to get rid of a Pottery Barn order. I remember one time when the packages were pretty beat up and I couldnt take the chance that the customer would refuse them and leave me buried....so I was as quiet as possible until I unloaded the last one, then I rang the bell and ran like hell to get back to the truck before they came to the door.

I've been known to do that. I sometimes amaze myself at my ninja-like skills of avoiding detection.

SoyFish · 07-10-2008, 03:37 PM

^ HAHAHA. The visual image in my head is great.

under the radar · 07-10-2008, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by But Benefits Are Great!

I was unloading a feeder last Friday, and came upon THE largest cardboard box I have ever seen. I have no idea what was in it, but I swear to God the damn thing could have held a Volkswagen.

This box from hell, with the sweet little "Pottery Barn" writing on the side, took 3 people to get out of the truck, and WAS TOO BIG to fit onto the Oversize/irregular slide.

Took 4 guys to lift it over the framework of the slide. I hate Pottery Barn. Three questions-

1. How in GOD'S NAME is a driver going to deliver a box like that?
2. What is the name of the guy who sold the Pottery Barn account for UPS? Home address would be appreciated.

3. What was my third question again?

I haven't read all the other posts, but let me say this: Think before you complain about having work to do. Thank God for Pottery Barn, Office Depot, Quill, QVC, etc. Ask the DHL guy if he would like some of that right now.

UpstateNYUPSer · 07-10-2008, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by under the radar

I haven't read all the other posts, but let me say this: Think before you complain about having work to do. Thank God for Pottery Barn, Office Depot, Quill, QVC, etc. Ask the DHL guy if he would like some of that right now.

I did, as he was handing me my coffee at the Dunkin Donuts drive-thru where he is working now.