Tired Driver
Sisyphus had it easy.
I do the best I can. Working towards retirement.
How do you deal with houses with no address numbers on them?
- Thread starter sailfish
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I do the best I can. Working towards retirement.
OPTION3
Well-Known Member
Especially under your center manager’s DESK
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ZQXC
Guest
Let me know a week before you retire; want to dump all my UPS stock. There's no way this company can survive without you aboard.
llamainmypocket
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A better question may be, what do you do when you deliver to a duplex with no posted unit numbers. I've seen that to be the case in a couple out of a hundred.
Bottom rung
Well-Known Member
There are no victims, only volunteers.
barnyard
KTM rider
NSN and on the service cross write, "Duplex does not have unit numbers."
Of course that would depend on the location. Near the college, I would do that every single day of the week, in a small town, I would probably leave it, knowing that the correct person would eventually get it.
A while back we had a clerk AC stuff to a wrong address in a very small town. After about 2 weeks, the guy called in a concern about getting all this stuff. He said that he did not have time to call everyone and wait for them to come over and pick it up as he had been doing. (all the stuff ACd to him was sure post stuff that had a PO address, but the PO was closed, so we delivered all the stuff in that town.)
I made it a point the next day to stop at his house and thank him for doing what we should have been.
He said, "Bah, it's just what people do when you know everyone in town." and he laughed.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Barnyard, writing "need unit number" would suffice.
I guess I am a dick also. If they do not have the time to number their house, I sure as heck dont have time to try to nail it down.
Or the number hidden by overgrown shrubbery, Christmas?Easter?valentines day/ halloween deco, umm not.
on the lawn ...
sailfish
Master of Karate and Friendship for Everyone
Two weeks ago I misdelivered a package to a house with no numbers displayed. The next day I got a message about it and I had to go back and redeliver it. Package on porch. Guess it was actually for their neighbor, the OTHER house with no numbers and I guessed wrong but they were too lazy to walk it over themselves and had to waste my time. Friday was first time I had one for them though (the one I misdelivered to). You bet I NSD'ed it.
Or its 1 inch squares on their mailbox, and not pointing towards the street. Thats why if its not marked, I just nsn it. Im not going to leave it at the wrong un numbered house.
The other one that gets me is when it is painted the same color as the porch......talk about lazy.
The Blackadder
Are you not amused?
Brown house with a Brown number I love that stuff, I told one guy you are lucky I am not the fire department looking for you, you would be dead by now...... Next time I went their he had a clearly marked home.
AKCoverMan
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Was at our State Fair this weekend. Emergency Services had a both teaching CPR and at the booth had a banner asking people to make sure their house was properly marked and that it was visible from the street. "Help us find you in an emergency!"
I stopped in and thanked them both for what they did as first responders but particularly for that banner!
Few years ago we had a State Trooper shot in his home which was in a rural area but still within the boundaries of the Municipality. His wife spent 45 mins on phone with 911 trying to guide responders to the scene and he died. Now homes are required to be marked and by and large are even if sometimes they are hard to see.
Outside the Municipality (which is where the Fair is held) there is no such requirement and it's often quite a guessing game. GPS on my iPad and detailed map books usually allow me to find the house.
I stopped in and thanked them both for what they did as first responders but particularly for that banner!
Few years ago we had a State Trooper shot in his home which was in a rural area but still within the boundaries of the Municipality. His wife spent 45 mins on phone with 911 trying to guide responders to the scene and he died. Now homes are required to be marked and by and large are even if sometimes they are hard to see.
Outside the Municipality (which is where the Fair is held) there is no such requirement and it's often quite a guessing game. GPS on my iPad and detailed map books usually allow me to find the house.
Packmule
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If you are not sure, that is exactly what you do.
Personally, I think it should be a federal law that no carrier can deliver to a home that is not in compliance with local 911 laws.
All we do is enable these morons to stay out of compliance. Then an emergency happens and someone dies....
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selfcancelsignal
Guest
& anyone who uses faded brass numbers on a dark brown dwelling needs to be bitchslapped!
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sailfish
Master of Karate and Friendship for Everyone
When I was young and dumb and started out driving on my first peak, I remember one day spending twenty minutes walking around with a package on my shoulder trying find the house. Wouldn't you know it ended up being the one with no number. If that were to happen now I would have been gone within the first ninety seconds.
