A Simpler Time
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Next Day Air started in 1982, I can remember filling out some older than this. I had three different defined delivery areas on my first route, we had to start a different Delivery Record for each one. I did a few Fur Calls too. I was glad when we stopped taking cash CODs.
burrheadd
KING Of GIFS
If you were running splits you might need 2 or 3 time cards a day
Not to mention clip boards and 50 liners
Maple Grove MN Driver
Cocaine Mang!
Amazing we ever got anything done in the old days without technology
PASinterference
Yes, I know I'm working late.
Nothing like walking out of the hair store with 10k in your pocket. Then wait in line at the bank to get a money order.
Don't miss those fur calls.
oldngray
nowhere special
I used a couple of clipboards for when I would be switching to different delivery areas and back.
oldupsman
Well-Known Member
I'll bet you have a whole pile of UPS history, don't ya.
He probably still has the hand crank from his model T...
wornoutupser
Well-Known Member
I used to deliver aircraft rebuilders and I could walk out with 30 to 40 grand cash in my pocket on any given day. The bank teller a block away was a good friend!
Red Devil
The Power of Connected
Good thing you didn’t have Orion. You’d have been switching clipboards every stop.
oldngray
nowhere special
After we went to DIADs the newer drivers had no clue about where the boundaries of different delivery areas were and had never even seen a DOL
quad decade guy
Well-Known Member
How about delivering $50k of Rolex watches....c o d? Made the O R S come get that cash on the spot. We had a customer that sold high end prom dresses and such. Drove a Ferrari and always paid cash. Would give us $100 tips for lunch. Big, fat , sweaty guy....straight out of a movie. Early 1990's....
quad decade guy
Well-Known Member
Had a clipboard fly right out the door....right into curb deep water....nearly full of delivery records. Those clipboard holders were razor sharp....always getting scraped cuts...nasty. My arms always dirty from boxdust and sweat.
trickpony1
Well-Known Member
Maybe he was selling something else also.........like dime bags?
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
That’s why stop counts were 1/3 what they are now
BigUnionGuy
Got the T-Shirt
I still have my clipboard, bankers clip, and two pristine 50 liners. I don't have this timecard, I saw it on a UPS Retirees page.
