UPS Employee Refuses To Deliver Package Of Pot

[soberups]

Originally Posted by dannyboy

Sober

Who is going to "make" the drug for whom to prescribe at a low enough price to run the drug cartel out of business? Our Gooberment?

And who is going to figure out a reasonable symptom for someone to get a script for heroin? Crack? And the list is endless. And who is the one in authority to write the script?

The last time I hurt my back, the doc gave me a few Vicodin. In generic form, 20 pills cost me less than $10. Same deal with Percocet, Methadone, or any other synthetic opiate drug....at normal retail price they are but a minute fraction of the cost of the black-market heroin for which addicts will spend hundreds of dollars per day.

And as far as who should figure out reasonable symptoms or write prescriptions...that would be the job of a doctor. Addiction is a medical issue, not a legal one.

Short of turning our society into a police state, there is no realistic way to prevent drugs from being smuggled into this country. If a person is addicted to drugs, I would much prefer that they be given cheap, pharmaceutical-grade meds via prescription instead of breaking into my car or stealing my identity in order to feed their habit.

[brownmonster]

Originally Posted by over9five

How would you know it's from a porn distributor? Does the return address really say "Joes Porn"?
Shouldn't the shipper have put "adult sig required" on it?
Do the methods even say anything about reading the return address on every package we deliver?

Just sayin.....

Exactly, if the company wanted me to think they wouldn't make me deliver the route the way some dumbass computer program set it up. Unlike the computer, I recognize the words Dead End, One Way, No Outlet, Etc. Deliver the box. Don't ask, don't tell.

[rod]

Originally Posted by over9five

How would you know it's from a porn distributor? Does the return address really say "Joes Porn"?
Shouldn't the shipper have put "adult sig required" on it?
Do the methods even say anything about reading the return address on every package we deliver?

Just sayin.....

I don't know how it is now but there used to be 3 or 4 companies that shipped 90% of the porn. A couple that come to mind were Apple Court and Adam and Eve. I don't recall ever seeing an "adult sig req" sticker on any porn (just drugs). It used to be when we had a driver sort a porn pkg couldn't make it 10 feet out of the trailer without some clown screaming "porn pkg coming down". I think every one had one or 2 customers on their route that were porn freaks and all the drivers knew who they were. There wasn't any "secretly ordering porn" at our center. We did have a customer come into the receiving counter one night with an open box saying he wanted to refuse it because it wasn't what he expected and it looked nothing like the ad he saw in the mag he ordered it from. It was a blow up doll.

[jalnar]

Originally Posted by upsguy72

The idiot opened the package he should have been fired. If something was sticking out of it like he said he should have Scanned it damaged and brought it back to the building and notified a SUP not open up the box.

Before you start the name calling get the facts right. Dah I never thought of that. All you are reading and hearing is what the media is saying. Some of the info floating out there is correct but most is bs. The truth will come out in the courts of the US not the courts of this web site

[browniehound]

Originally Posted by 1989

. UPS is aloud to open packages, and a driver is part of UPS. But you must be careful that your integrity isn't questioned. .

Are you sure? I know I'm not "Aloud" to open packages and I'm not permitted to open them either. Its an instant termination. I just deliver them and thats it. I don't care whats in them. People who care what's in the parcels are the ones that get fired.

At least that's what I have witnessed over the years

[browniehound]

Originally Posted by soberups

Its not the drugs, its the illegal status of and the resultant black market for the drugs that causes the problems.

Make the drugs legally available by prescription to registered addicts for a few cents a day and you will eliminate the black market by undercutting the price to the point where the smugglers and pushers can no longer make a profit.

I lost a marriage and my son lost a mother to drugs and alcohol. I very nearly lost my life to drugs and alcohol. Having spent many years on the front lines of the "war on drugs" I can tell you from personal experience that it cannot be fought and won through prohibition.

The definition of insanity is to continue the same action over and over while expecting a different result. We are beating our heads into a brick wall with our "war on drugs"...and its not the wall that is bleeding.

I think Sober is right on with this one. Eliminate the black market and it will eliminate all the crime.

It would never happen because of stigma associated with illegal drugs percieved by the general public. Its ironic, because one of the worst, most destructive, addictive drug is legal. You can buy it at any store:liquor. It causes more deaths through car accidents and health problems than all the others combined.

Sorry, this is way off topic

[tieguy]

Originally Posted by over9five

How would you know it's from a porn distributor? Does the return address really say "Joes Porn"?
Shouldn't the shipper have put "adult sig required" on it?
Do the methods even say anything about reading the return address on every package we deliver?

Just sayin.....

Not sure what the process is but people always seemed to know who the porn distributers were.

[upsguy72]

Originally Posted by tieguy

Your question is a little bit of a sidebar but generally the package comes from a customer counter or ups store rather then a regular pickup account. its air . Its taped real well and the real tip off going to a vacant house or business with no inventory that is clearly a front.

How do I know that the box came from the customer service counter or got drop off at the UPS store. So if some one tapes up there box to good it must contain drugs ??

I'm not asking anyone to be a hero. You definitely should not open the package. Just report the suspicious activity and let the manager or LP person take care of it.

Exactly do your job?

Covers post brings up another idea. would you deliver a box coming from a porn distributer to a house with young kids in it?

Last time I check most of the place where you order porn ship in a plain box that you can't tell whats in it.

Just curious where the "I could care less whats in the box" thing ends.

In any case drugs are ruining this world in so many ways and I'm shocked at the indifference shown here.

Well you waste your time and worry about what in every package you deliver and I won't. Just remember don't open them

[flip33]

It's funny how a guy trying to do a good job and do the right thing is the main focus of the whole thing. I wonder what happened to the drug dealers and their box O drugs? LOL