UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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I always try a bit harder when the package is medicine.
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I always try a bit harder when the package is medicine.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Oldfart
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Never fails houses with dogs are signature required. Just like people never seem to live on the 1st floor of 4 story apt complexes.
outtatime
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08 while on road, but write on the package it's an 03 and give to CSA.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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They won't already know before you come back in?
Not unless they got a trace, in which case you probably would've already heard from them while you were still on road.
whenIgetthere
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eNotes helps the swings, but very few have the time to type them in. I try to enter them for any problem addresses.
outtatime
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No, an 08 is closed/not in and doesn't raise any flags. An 03 is bad address and dispatch gets a automatic message about it and tries to correct if possible. Some dispatchers suck and only go by what a google search tells them and says it's a good address. Others will use a Bressers book or actually call the customer.
Fred's Myth
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Dispatchers at our station aren't allowed to use the phone OR use the Internet to check on 03. I believe the in-house program they are required to use is called FRED. Hilarious irony.
CJinx
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FRED (or FAST, in Ground) is actually a very useful tool... No reason to not call a consignee, though.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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How many of you will call a consignee while on road to get clarification on a bad address?
DeliveryException
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Not me, if they supplied the phone or paid for mine then sure. My phone is basically data, 5g LTE, unlimited text and 100 talk minutes, only 30 bux a month though.
McFeely
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I don't generally do so. I've had numerous customers in the past who have called my phone on subsequent deliveries asking when I'll be at their house, etc. My current route is small enough geography that I don't typically have a problem making a same day reattempt once I get clarification/directions on an address. Seems to be the recipient's problem that they don't have a correct address on their shipment, not mine.
I used to do a mountain delivery route and you were lucky if you had cell phone signal 20% of the day. Again, not my problem
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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I call and for the most pat it is a one time deal. I have had a few who would try to call me for subsequent deliveries. I blocked those numbers.
OrioN
double tap o da horn dooshbag
I did today because it was an oversize ride on toy & I didn't want to schlep it to the QA clerk on Monday. Was gonna use the power pad's CPC, but I was already on the street.
I'll try to make the delivery on the first day if it's a perishable or meds... Other parcels if CPC can find it while I'm still in the area.
I am bricking out my rental already & had to give up 60 stops because that's all I can take. It's gonna be am interesting peak.
Even with that many stops off my rural route, I still clocked 150 miles n done by 1900.. I know next week is gonna be a 2000-2200 clock out
I'll try to make the delivery on the first day if it's a perishable or meds... Other parcels if CPC can find it while I'm still in the area.
I am bricking out my rental already & had to give up 60 stops because that's all I can take. It's gonna be am interesting peak.
Even with that many stops off my rural route, I still clocked 150 miles n done by 1900.. I know next week is gonna be a 2000-2200 clock out
Southeast Hoss
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Had a customer paint his house number on his drive way with white paint!!! hey, if you can't see that your blind!
Oldfart
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Against policy at my station. Couriers are not allowed to call a customer or give a customer their number. Had several customers complain that couriers would call customers trying to get a date and had several customers calling couriers after hours trying to do the same. If a customer leaves a note on their door wanting you to call for delivery, you are setting yourself up for a problem that you can avoid by not calling them. If they need their cell phone so bad, they should have had it held or had it delivered where they would be.
McFeely
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Bingo. I had a P1 package with DSR and the guy was not home. Made 2 attempts in the same day, not in. On the 2nd day, there was a note for me to call him. On the 3rd day he stayed home to sign for the package.
Must have been a real important package for him to not drive 15 min to the station or 7 minutes to the SNAP location in town. And this guy disputed a delivery of NSR meds a while back, too. That's all I need is this dude hounding me over his precious deliveries.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Call him once and then block his number.
