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You probably had some of those old delivery notices in your shirt pocket. Happen to have any pictures of the old delivery notices for old times sake?
Old Time UPS.
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You probably had some of those old delivery notices in your shirt pocket. Happen to have any pictures of the old delivery notices for old times sake?
spif91
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retired2000
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how about hitting the max for social security. use to hit it around the end of oct every year. it was like getting a $20 raise a week.
what about the shelves in the pks that flipped up so you could get more stuff in your car.
what about the shelves in the pks that flipped up so you could get more stuff in your car.
CharleyHustle
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A buddy long since retired would break out his UPS issue wool pants on the real cold days. They had a large square patch over the seat. He also had the shoe-string tie, called a bablo(sp), they had to wear. No short sleeve shirts when he started.
I remember morning breaks. 20 mins, No more than 5 drivers to a resturant. My helper would start in the morning at the building and stand all day in the step well. Packages were loaded in sections 1A, 2A, 3A, 1B, 2B, 3B ect...
I remember morning breaks. 20 mins, No more than 5 drivers to a resturant. My helper would start in the morning at the building and stand all day in the step well. Packages were loaded in sections 1A, 2A, 3A, 1B, 2B, 3B ect...
Covemastah
Hoopah drives the boat Chief !!
L.L Bean I am positive on that one!! how about the AAA white pkgs,never missed a front porch from my P/C with those thing lol
trouble maker
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What was the shipper # for fingerhut?? I remember going to a customers home one time with a tracer for a fingerhut package. Her front yard was like a dump, and while she is signing that she never received it, I look down and to the left of the porch it just happened to be that white fingerhut box with the same 3 digit ID #. LOL. That was when UPS paid any and every claim, just to keep the bussiness.
rod
Retired 22 years
Aldens, Spiegels, J.C. Penney, Fingerhut, Lands End, Eddie Bauer, Bass Pro, Cabelas, Avon, Shakley, all the tv shopping shows, all the excersize equipment (Nordic Track). There was a period in time that we (UPS) delivered it ALL. I always thought that if a driver wanted to be a crook he would know when a house was vacant because after delivering the AAA packages you knew the party would soon be on vacation- in fact if you met the customer they would tell you the exact dates they would be gone.
Yup! Every third house got a 038-598!!!
Dustyroads
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Does anyone remember sneaking packages back into the building. There were a few favorite ways to do it. You could just put them in the "send again truck" with no service cross on them. Or, you could just put them in a parked 1000 that had about 500 pieces on it waiting to be unloaded. Or, you could just toss them onto the primary belt. The first center manager that I worked for was famous for asking country drivers to take packages left in the building, and "give them a ride". It was also a favorite dispatch tool of one guy who ran the preload for a number of years. If you were heavy, he might say, just leave them in your pickup load, I'll lighten you up tomorrow.
soberups
Pees in the brown Koolaid
Signing off on the Call Tag and OTPU control log every night.
Turning in 4 or 5 grand in cash.
Running out of DOT hours...in September.
Bringing back 200 stops at 11:00 at night...in September.
"Stop counts" on little clickers hanging above the belt.
"Stop counts" that are off by 50 or 60 stops.
No shorts.
No summer shirts.
No jump seat for passengers or helpers.
KORE.
Yellow call tags.
Termination letters for failing to "make scratch"
Center managers that smoke in their offices.
Turning in 4 or 5 grand in cash.
Running out of DOT hours...in September.
Bringing back 200 stops at 11:00 at night...in September.
"Stop counts" on little clickers hanging above the belt.
"Stop counts" that are off by 50 or 60 stops.
No shorts.
No summer shirts.
No jump seat for passengers or helpers.
KORE.
Yellow call tags.
Termination letters for failing to "make scratch"
Center managers that smoke in their offices.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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KORE--Keeping Our Reputation for Excellence
TLA--Talk Listen Act They used to take us to Friendly's for breakfast and review our performance and ask us for our input.
Consignee billing tags---I think I wore out the "9" button on those tags.
038-598 was Land's End
TLA--Talk Listen Act They used to take us to Friendly's for breakfast and review our performance and ask us for our input.
Consignee billing tags---I think I wore out the "9" button on those tags.
038-598 was Land's End
NHDRVR
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This is relative to the buildings we worked in, of course, but I remember the wooden bulkhead doors, delivering on paper, an old 1300 package car with air brakes that looked like it would tip over when you turned it.
I remember a driver telling me my 1st peak that he started driving in the 50's when all of the rules/regulations were different. He also mentioned that UPS didn't deliver past the Mississippi river ( is that true?) back when he started...
Most importantly, I remember 70 lbs. and under....Merry Christmas
NHDRVR
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KOA - knowledge of area
rod
Retired 22 years
I can vouch for that. I started in 1971 and we only delivered in states east of the Mississippi and the 3 west coast states Ca. Wa. and Or. I started the day North and South Dakota were added to our delivery area. My first job at UPS was running a 1965 Ford Econoline shuttle route between my center in Mn. and a newly opened one in Morehead, Mn. (yes there is a Morehead,Mn.) Morehead is on the the border between Mn. and Fargo, N.D. For the 1st week or so I would drive the 176 Miles over and 176 miles back - sometimes running totaly empty one way or the other but very seldom with more that a couple dozen pkgs.
And I'm sure it was LL Bean. OK, who can look it up?
Covemastah
Hoopah drives the boat Chief !!
no need to look up,,,etched in my skull!!!!
no need to look up,,,etched in my skull!!!!
Me too. So why do we have two guys saying Lands End? Are they drinking this early???
