A Simpler Time

[rod]

Who remembers these?

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Fur calls

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Fur calls were still around when I started but luckily I never had to mess with one. The people in my delivery areas weren't the types to own fur coats.

I didn't get too many usually a couple of year

 

[rod]

That’s why stop counts were 1/3 what they are now

But we had to use our brains--something the current drivers don't need.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

High step trucks with no power steering....

Knee and shoulder killers...

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I'm sorry, I started working for UPS some time after the Napoleonic Wars. What's a fur call?

When I go over and visit Mrs. @BSWALKS

 

[clean hairy]

Amazing we got more done in the old days without technology

Fixed

 

[clean hairy]

Fur calls

Hot lonely women that wanted your # since their spouse was out of town for the next 6 weeks?

 

[Covemastah]

Dome lights so dim they wouldn't even cast a shadow

Stop your bitching ,, poor @rod had to use moonlite or a candle

 

[Yeet]

I still got a few from when I started in 1975. They didn't add the last number in the year for some reason, I just know how old they are by the pay rate. They used to put your Social Security number on your ID too.

Not as senior as you but I remember the ID we used to log into our scanners was the first 5 of your last name, last 4 of social, then first initial. So John Smith would be SMITH1234J. Every day they would have the numbers for the previous day, misloads, pieces per hour, mistoggles etc printed and hanging for everyone to see. Took them a few years to realize that maybe having the last 4 of your social on blast like that might be a security risk and changed it to the last 4 of your employee ID number.

 

[rod]

Stop your bitching ,, poor @rod had to use moonlite or a candle

Dome light was worthless. I petty-cashed and expensive (for that time) flashlight with a halogen bulb. Boss man was pissed but he got over it.

 

[Wally]

Who remembers these?

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Our snowflake rookies would get the vapors if they had to write all different area codes on a timecard.

 

[Fido]

What the hell is a fur call

 

[Wally]

What the hell is a fur call

@burrheadd dated a few back in the day. Thick, fugly, not so well groomed.

 

[burrheadd]

@burrheadd dated a few back in the day. Thick, fugly, not so well groomed.

They were always ready to get down

 

[Wally]

They were always ready to get down

Easy access comes with a price.

 

[Tired Driver]

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.

My record was around $68,000.00 from gold and silver shops and beach shops on the boulevard.

 

[Wally]

Who hasn't written #51 on the sheet bottom because you didn't want to change pages?

 

[rod]

Who hasn't written #51 on the sheet bottom because you didn't want to change pages?

Me- I got paid by the hour.

 

[Wally]

Me- I got paid by the hour.

 

[rod]

What the hell is a fur call

Rich old bags would have their mink coats picked up by UPS in the spring to be stored at some professional furrier for the summer. They would be delivered back in the fall. I had 3 fur call stops on my route. Two
Of the ladies were bitches but one was real nice. She lived in a fancy apartment above a DQ she owned among many things. She had one of those chair lift things to get up and down the steps. I used it for heavy stuff. She always tipped me with a few coupons for free cones.