VonDutch
Bite your tongue, Missy
Some people don't blindly follow incompetent leadership.
Late night deliveries
- Thread starter Packmule
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Some people don't blindly follow incompetent leadership.
BigUnionGuy
Got the T-Shirt
It's called.... "Driver discretion".
A term, that the company fully approves of.
-Bug-
Some people,really dont have a clue.
M
Mike hunt
Guest
That would scare me good it that happened to me.
Z
ZQXC
Guest
I don't knock after the sun goes down; freaks people out.
Packmule
Well-Known Member
I would rather be making that call than having the homeowner calling 911 cause they just shot the UPS man thinking he was an intruder!
VonDutch
Bite your tongue, Missy
Or a New York homeowner who fired a shot KNOWING it was his UPS man.
VonDutch
Bite your tongue, Missy
Not everyone's street is in site of the door
soberups
Pees in the brown Koolaid
A significant portion of my rural deliveries involve being forced to park down below or out of sight of the front door and then walking the package up to the house. There aren't any streetlights out in the country. Dogs run loose, and while I know most of them they can behave much differently when its pitch black and all they see is a guy with a flashlight walking up the driveway. Customers...99% of whom are armed...can also behave much differently, especially at 10:00 at night.
Indecisi0n
Well-Known Member
Why not carry a flashlight so they see you coming?
oldngray
nowhere special
They might think the lights are aliens? They already believe there a a Bigfoot running around out there.
soberups
Pees in the brown Koolaid
I do carry a flashlight.
Problem is...they don't see me coming. They see an anonymous stranger in dark clothing with a flashlight walking up their driveway. If they cant see the truck, they have no way of knowing its me.
Indecisi0n
Well-Known Member
If you carry and light and announce UPS I don't see a problem.
VonDutch
Bite your tongue, Missy
Where it's warm and the windows are open, maybe. Where its wt cold, the place is sealed up, tabs blasting Charlie Browns Christmas, and you pop up out of the dark? Better hope they're not the panicky, shoot first type.
soberups
Pees in the brown Koolaid
Dogs don't understand the meaning of the word "UPS" when you approach them at 10:00PM with a flashlight.
Nervous, armed moms alone at home with their kids who cant see your truck don't relax and let their guard down just because you shout out "UPS" at 10:00PM either.
Start delivering rural stops at 10:00 at night and I can guarantee you will see the problem.
Indecisi0n
Well-Known Member
Don't forget about the ghosts that come out at night.
AKCoverMan
Well-Known Member
Daylight is at a premium for us here in The Last Frontier..our sunset today is at 1546. Fortunately we are on the downhill side and gaining daylight now.
On rural routes in winter I never take a lunch and rarely a break before it gets dark out I want to deliver as much as possible in daylight. Then I will usually take just my paid breaks (not giving up paid time!). I smimply don't enter an unpaid lunch.
728 do you actually sit at the center (or somewhere) for an hour between 2100-2200 and get home that much later? Yuck!
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AKCoverMan
Well-Known Member
"Stay out of driveways." Yes, sure. If it's really just a driveway. But in the country some folks live 1/8 mile off the road. Those aren't "driveways" in my book..they are private roads. I drive on those.
I was pleasantly surprised in PCM one day when our center manager while talking about staying out of driveways made the exact same comment excepting the driveway rule when faced with long country driveways.
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