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<blockquote data-quote="Ancient Alien" data-source="post: 3717502" data-attributes="member: 70963"><p>I carry a concealed Cougar/Bear spray for situations like this. My very first Onroad told me UPS had a situation in the 80's where a UPS driver pulled out his pepper spray, fired it, missed the dog and got a kid in the eyes/mouth who was trying to restrain the dog(Seattle area he said). It ended up costing UPS several hundred thousands of dollars (a lot back then and UPS rarely lost lawsuits then). So UPS sent out house mail (this green bag loaded in trailers..before internet/e-mail) to all the district that pepper spray is banned at UPS.</p><p></p><p>I went years without no protection and will-called the ones I knew bad. Yet, as the internet came online and deliveries were going to virtually every address, there was no way to know every bad dog address. It was at this crack head type shack behind a house on a long driveway you had to walk in where I met up with 4-7 mean... vicious dogs without any protection and thought screw this! Luckily the owner was home and stepped outside and the dogs were inside but told me I was super lucky because they were just out. So after that and the fact we went preload/late start and I'm delivering these places in the dark. I'm getting spray. One mean dog, maybe two... that sucks but over 2 big mean dogs. That's life-threatening.</p><p></p><p>If you made it this far reading this. Does anyone know if UPS has a policy on concealed pepper spray? Either way... I always have it at the ready on any hairy situations. UPS policy or my life. I'm going against the company on that one.</p><p></p><p>My worst delivery is that mean...bad...killer... Kujo dog stop you luckily escaped from and you scroll through EDD the next day and you have another SIGNATURE REQUIRED!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ancient Alien, post: 3717502, member: 70963"] I carry a concealed Cougar/Bear spray for situations like this. My very first Onroad told me UPS had a situation in the 80's where a UPS driver pulled out his pepper spray, fired it, missed the dog and got a kid in the eyes/mouth who was trying to restrain the dog(Seattle area he said). It ended up costing UPS several hundred thousands of dollars (a lot back then and UPS rarely lost lawsuits then). So UPS sent out house mail (this green bag loaded in trailers..before internet/e-mail) to all the district that pepper spray is banned at UPS. I went years without no protection and will-called the ones I knew bad. Yet, as the internet came online and deliveries were going to virtually every address, there was no way to know every bad dog address. It was at this crack head type shack behind a house on a long driveway you had to walk in where I met up with 4-7 mean... vicious dogs without any protection and thought screw this! Luckily the owner was home and stepped outside and the dogs were inside but told me I was super lucky because they were just out. So after that and the fact we went preload/late start and I'm delivering these places in the dark. I'm getting spray. One mean dog, maybe two... that sucks but over 2 big mean dogs. That's life-threatening. If you made it this far reading this. Does anyone know if UPS has a policy on concealed pepper spray? Either way... I always have it at the ready on any hairy situations. UPS policy or my life. I'm going against the company on that one. My worst delivery is that mean...bad...killer... Kujo dog stop you luckily escaped from and you scroll through EDD the next day and you have another SIGNATURE REQUIRED! [/QUOTE]
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