Ever found Drugs or Money in a Box?

[The-UK-Guy]

I was sent a message from my center team to pick an OCA up from a doctors office. It turned out that the Dr was shipping 5 antique 24 karot gold coins valued at 30 grand. He had forgoten to insure the package so I gave him the 1 800 number to call but they refused to insure it because UPS doesnt ship currency.

 

[Covemastah]

anyone ever deliver creamated pets ????? gave me much joy one day when i pulled up to a house not to find max running in circles to get at me,,,,he was in the pkg

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I was sent a message from my center team to pick an OCA up from a doctors office. It turned out that the Dr was shipping 5 antique 24 karot gold coins valued at 30 grand. He had forgoten to insure the package so I gave him the 1 800 number to call but they refused to insure it because UPS doesnt ship currency.

Your post is not quite accurate. The reason this shipment was declined is UPS does not insure collectibles or items which cannot be easily replaced or one of a kind items. We also are not allowed to ship currency but currency is paper money, not coins.

 

[hseofpayne]

found a dead muskrat in a letterbox one time- does that count?

Was it instant Muskrat Love?!

 

[Big Babooba]

Many years ago the FBI came to our building looking for 3 boxes. This was in the days before we tracked packages so I don't know how they got their info. We pulled the 3 boxes and they went to the center manager's office. Turned out it was $87,000 in cash that was stolen from a local bank a few months before. Some guy dressed up as an armored car guard and walked out with the day's shipment.

 

[Covemastah]

Your post is not quite accurate. The reason this shipment was declined is UPS does not insure collectibles or items which cannot be easily replaced or one of a kind items. We also are not allowed to ship currency but currency is paper money, not coins.

how did they insure that whale or those stupid pandas back in the mid 90's ?????

 

[Docparcel79]

anyone ever deliver creamated pets ????? gave me much joy one day when i pulled up to a house not to find max running in circles to get at me,,,,he was in the pkg

You think delivering creamated pets is bad!! Try picking up 60+ boxes of creamated pets in small boxes!! We received an ODS that day to condense all your smalls into bags. So I threw all those pets into a smalls bag! I bet that was one hell of an animal party!!!

 

[thebrownbox]

No but I've smelled a bunch of packages that you could tell had weed in them.. I only know of three times during Christmas that the police were called in.

 

[CBUK]

There was a period a few years back when Viagra was available in the USA but not here in the UK. People were buying it by the shovel load and the packages were arriving with a COD customs charge. It caused no end of embarresment for a few customers on my route.

I had one delivery for a guy to his home address. He left me an SDN but with the COD charge I couldn't leave it. He ran a business nearby so I thought I would do him a favour and call at the office.

He wasn't there and the over eager secretary offered to pay for it. As I was walking out I could see her looking at the invoice to see if it was work related.

There was a certain tension in the air the next time I was there.

 

[The-UK-Guy]

Your post is not quite accurate. The reason this shipment was declined is UPS does not insure collectibles or items which cannot be easily replaced or one of a kind items. We also are not allowed to ship currency but currency is paper money, not coins.

I was ready to take it, I`m just repeating what the 1800 number operator told us. I was also told I couldnt take it even without insurance purchased because it was currency. Those 1800 operators dont have a clue though. I wonder if there are any members on brown cafe who are 1800 ops ?

 

[The-UK-Guy]

Your post is not quite accurate. The reason this shipment was declined is UPS does not insure collectibles or items which cannot be easily replaced or one of a kind items. We also are not allowed to ship currency but currency is paper money, not coins.

Your post is not quite accurate. currency is considered any legal tender.
Your telling me I could ship and take insurance out on a package containing lets say 1000 dollar coins ? those are not collectible they are easily replaceable and not one of a kind. (appart from the serial#)

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

According to Wikipedia, in common terms, currency refers only to paper money, as in coins and currency, but this is misleading. Coins and paper money are both forms of currency.

UK, it looks like we were both partially correct and I apologize for my earlier post.

 

[BrownSuit]

I was ready to take it, I`m just repeating what the 1800 number operator told us. I was also told I couldnt take it even without insurance purchased because it was currency. Those 1800 operators dont have a clue though. I wonder if there are any members on brown cafe who are 1800 ops ?

It could have actually been insured with UPS Capital, however most of that would require signing of a contract.

If you ever come across anything like this where they ship high valuables regularly, you can submit a Sales Lead and instead of Small Package/Freight Select Supply Chain Solutions.

Ticket places are infamous because they don't think we can insure the value of the ticket.

 

[1989]

According to Wikipedia, in common terms, currency refers only to paper money, as in coins and currency, but this is misleading. Coins and paper money are both forms of currency.

UK, it looks like we were both partially correct and I apologize for my earlier post.

I've shipped many coins...Graded coins, rolls of Morgan/Peace dollars (20 coins per roll), gold coins, $500 and $1000 bills. Was never a problem because those were "rare coins" not currency, but that was in the early 90's. Currency was money not anything of numismatic value. I think ups is changing it's currency policy or differs by person on it's interpretation.

 

[drewed]

the weirdest thing ive seen is shooters, beer bottles/cans in a box labeled as "personal clothing" with shotgun and .223 shells used for packing peanuts

 

[browniehound]

haha when i was unloading one day a box fell and it was slap full of cocaine like at least 20 lbs. nobody was around and i just taped it up and sent it on its way! i figure they chose ups so i could care less

Jc, please spare us your stories.

20 lbs converts to roughly 9 kilograms. I don't know the exact value of 1 "kilo" of coke on the street. From my research on the web, $10,000 would be less than market value for the quantity. For the sake of argument, let's say that is the price for a "kilo" of "coke"

For you to say that you dropped a 20lb. box on the ground that opened that easily and the contents were as clear as day defies logic. That pacrel would have been worth $90,000, yet it was allowed to be thrown around the trailers and belts with no protection surrounding its contents?

What I'm saying is the package wasn't protected or hidden from sight and smell? This is why I doubt what I've just read.

I find this scenario hard to believe. Am I wrong?

I could list what I would do If I were going to send this package of cocaine through UPS. At the very top of the list would be NOT TO DO IT and if I did, it wouldn't be in some flimsly box that would break open in its first sort . It would be hidden in some other everyday object and the scent surpressed with coffee or a similar substance. This box would be taped, then reboxed and taped, then reboxed and taped again!

It would not be left to opened by one drop on the belt.

 

[upsgrunt]

Jc, please spare us your stories.

20 lbs converts to roughly 9 kilograms. I don't know the exact value of 1 "kilo" of coke on the street. From my research on the web, $10,000 would be less than market value for the quantity. For the sake of argument, let's say that is the price for a "kilo" of "coke"

For you to say that you dropped a 20lb. box on the ground that opened that easily and the contents were as clear as day defies logic. That pacrel would have been worth $90,000, yet it was allowed to be thrown around the trailers and belts with no protection surrounding its contents?

What I'm saying is the package wasn't protected or hidden from sight and smell? This is why I doubt what I've just read.

I find this scenario hard to believe. Am I wrong?

I could list what I would do If I were going to send this package of cocaine through UPS. At the very top of the list would be NOT TO DO IT and if I did, it wouldn't be in some flimsly box that would break open in its first sort . It would be hidden in some other everyday object and the scent surpressed with coffee or a similar substance. This box would be taped, then reboxed and taped, then reboxed and taped again!

It would not be left to opened by one drop on the belt.

You sure sound like you know that from experience!

 

[The-UK-Guy]

According to Wikipedia, in common terms, currency refers only to paper money, as in coins and currency, but this is misleading. Coins and paper money are both forms of currency.

UK, it looks like we were both partially correct and I apologize for my earlier post.

No worries, paper or coin, I have none lol

 

[The-UK-Guy]

It could have actually been insured with UPS Capital, however most of that would require signing of a contract.

If you ever come across anything like this where they ship high valuables regularly, you can submit a Sales Lead and instead of Small Package/Freight Select Supply Chain Solutions.

Ticket places are infamous because they don't think we can insure the value of the ticket.

Good to Know, unfortuanatly this was a one time deal.

 

[Mike Hawk]

Jc, please spare us your stories.

20 lbs converts to roughly 9 kilograms. I don't know the exact value of 1 "kilo" of coke on the street. From my research on the web, $10,000 would be less than market value for the quantity. For the sake of argument, let's say that is the price for a "kilo" of "coke"

For you to say that you dropped a 20lb. box on the ground that opened that easily and the contents were as clear as day defies logic. That pacrel would have been worth $90,000, yet it was allowed to be thrown around the trailers and belts with no protection surrounding its contents?

What I'm saying is the package wasn't protected or hidden from sight and smell? This is why I doubt what I've just read.

I find this scenario hard to believe. Am I wrong?

I could list what I would do If I were going to send this package of cocaine through UPS. At the very top of the list would be NOT TO DO IT and if I did, it wouldn't be in some flimsly box that would break open in its first sort . It would be hidden in some other everyday object and the scent surpressed with coffee or a similar substance. This box would be taped, then reboxed and taped, then reboxed and taped again!

It would not be left to opened by one drop on the belt.

Maybe the shipper was high on his own coke?