Mailbox numbers...

[whenIgetthere]

If you do not hear back from dispatch on the missing apartment number and there is a resident directory do you make an attempt?

I will check with the leasing office, if there is one on site, if I haven't heard back from dispatch. Being proactive like McFeely avoids that step in most cases.

 

[Schweddy]

Our local tax assessor has an excellent website that helps with bad street numbers. It only helps if the recipient is a homeowner and not a renter.

Funny, you won't call a customer but you have time to search what city/county someone lives in and find said website and GIS info and navigate tons of data. Let alone the time wasted if they don't own their place.

Secret.. agent man

 

[Oldfart]

Funny, you won't call a customer but you have time to search what city/county someone lives in and find said website and GIS info and navigate tons of data. Let alone the time wasted if they don't own their place.

Secret.. agent man

They have an app and you enter the street number and the numbers on that street pop up. Not that difficult. An app doesn't call me back when I am on vacation like a customer can. Not gonna bother blocking calls, just not gonna call them. If a customer happens to mention to a CSA that I called them and the CSA were to mention to a manager that I called, I could be disciplined for breaking policy. Just not gonna happen. Pretty simple.

 

[Schweddy]

They have an app

oh touch you.. it's an app? Is it the grindr county app?

 

[bacha29]

I was a day1 with RPS and at a time before 911 and GPS. The route consisted of 44 Zips stretched across 5 rural counties and 2100 miles of RD carrier miles. What an enormous miscalculation. All under the old USPS RD map format and those maps were not public information. After several years we were able to add a new contractor. Needless to say the guy was over whelmed almost to the point of tears. Looking for help and no maps no apps no GPS no Google maps all I could say to the guy was this..." With the mail RD stands for Rural Delivery. With us it stands for Rightfully Delayed. They're out there because they choose to be not because they have to be and if you can't truck it 'expletive deleted' (rhymes ) it and everybody knows where the guy you're looking for lives......That's everybody in the "hawler".

 

[Code 82 Approved]

As odd as it turned out for me, I used to get deliveries from our first RPS guy, who sold and a decade later the guy with that route hired me to deliver to the same area as the RPS guy. Then the guy who hired me sold his route, 8 yrs later, I talked my boss into hiring the guy that hired me to run his own route again. It's like route incest. Then as a Mgr, I had to instruct the guy who hired me, to do his job. After that, I switched contractors, manage all of it shy of one that zip and half the damn real estate the original RPS guy probably had.

 

[OrioN]

Wut?

 

[59 Dano]

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.

There's never been an issue at any station where I've had an interest. I know of some couriers who probably spend 15 minutes a day on the phone conducting business with their regs.

 

[59 Dano]

If I had a bad address package, where exactly should I do the exception scan? If the address doesn't exist, where would I not be falsifying?

Here, no one cares where you are when you code the DEX 03. Some people realize it's a bad address when they are priming their shelf or resorting packages and code it then. As another poster said, it gives dispatch/CSA more time to find the correct address.

Some stations have issues with people monkeying around with the code. Some couriers will throw a DEX 03 on a pkg to show an attempt before commit time or for some other reason. We'll make changes to the policy if people start doing that kind of crap here.

 

[59 Dano]

Funny, you won't call a customer but you have time to search what city/county someone lives in and find said website and GIS info and navigate tons of data. Let alone the time wasted if they don't own their place.

Secret.. agent man

All of the counties in this area use qpublic.net for their searchable property tax databases. Ridiculously quick and easy to validate an address and, if needed, view a picture of the property or show it on a map.

 

[jiujitsuhero]

The house numbers ...that r covered up by Holiday decorations

Wreaths covering the apt numbers.

 

[jiujitsuhero]

What's

I will always knock, then code it an 03 because I am not sure I am at the correct house. If dispatch insists it is correct, then an 08 will follow. I will not release a package at a house with no numbers if I have never delivered there before just because I think I am at the correct house.

What's an 03?

 

[Operational needs]

What's


What's an 03?

Bad address.

 

[jiujitsuhero]

Bad address.

That's an 02 for us(HD). Not allowed to use them unless we call terminal.

 

[OrioN]

003 is " unable to locate" then u choose an appropriate reason.

Don't forget to service cross the box as well

We're not supposed to u use 002 or 003 it varies from terminal to terminal, just because they wanna look good on paper.

B$, I'm in the sticks n have cellphone dead zones. I'll use CPC texting to let the guy sitting at a desk do the research & gives him an ETA before I go to far from the service area

 

[59 Dano]

Don't forget to service cross the box as well/QUOTE]

We have couriers who insist on using the obsolete service cross. It accomplishes nothing and it looks like crap.

 

[dezguy]

My station doesn't have enough printers to go around to everyone. Looking like crap or not, service crosses are sometimes necessary.

 

[OrioN]

Blah, I know most of my rural area by now, butt it still piss me off for those customers who don't want to bother with numbers...

I dunno what that BT 150 is, but that's not the house number... So I mark the utility pole on each side of the drive way with a sharpie

 

[Star B]

if you don't want to bother with numbers, you will get the bare minimum of me trying to find you.

Even for the ultimate cheapass like me.... 30 bucks will get you a nice post, a 12x7 number sign, and a case of beer for your neighbor with a pole driver.

 

[rod]

Blah, I know most of my rural area by now, butt it still piss me off for those customers who don't want to bother with numbers...

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I dunno what that BT 150 is, but that's not the house number... So I mark the utility pole on each side of the drive way with a sharpie

Probably a Fire Number used by the local volunteer Fire dept. or just the way the power company keeps track of their posts.