9.5er
Well-Known Member
This guy is my hero. Wish I could do that and not feel bad about it.
Package "Throwing
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This guy is my hero. Wish I could do that and not feel bad about it.
TooTechie
Geek in Brown
I tell customers all the time who say "Geez, what did you do to it?" that the brief period of time that the package is with me is the smoothest part of its trip.
Often there is--even more so now. If you look around on porches when you deliver you'll see more and more home surveillance cameras. This is in part to security companies hooking up home security to the internet especially the cable companies doing security systems now. As it gets cheaper and grows in popularity you'll see even more cameras on residential stops.
A gate like that might indicate to me that a dog could be inside (Sleeping/off camera. Maybe there was a "Beware of Dog" sign on the outside of the wall) or I might be shot as an intruder. Or everyone in the neighborhood might have a gate with a different/difficult lock and latch mechanism that drivers just don't always have time to deal with. Probably isn't that driver's first time delivering to that location and he might know about context-adding location-specific circumstances we don't.
I honestly don't know how that driver could have done better if the customer wasn't home and he couldn't enter the yard for some reason.
I honestly don't know how that driver could have done better if the customer wasn't home and he couldn't enter the yard for some reason.
Harry Manback
Robot Extraordinaire
I just noticed you have a registered trademark on this post. I don't owe you anything for having quoted it twice, do I? : /
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TooTechie
Geek in Brown
I didn't go through many residential gates until I took a route in the ghetto because as a cover driver I didn't know if there was a nasty dog waiting to race me back to my truck on some routes. Now I'm opening and closing gates all damn afternoon. If you don't close a gate in the ghetto they look at you like you just kicked their dog.
Z
ZQXC
Guest
Using his method, with light singles, in a very dense delivery area, you could put off 450 stops per hour. That's 200 more than UPState can do.
upschuck
Well-Known Member
The next video of this guy will be him doing the same thing, with the truck keep rolling down the road. Eventually that brake won't hold.
jumpman23
Oh Yeah
Don't need a camera for customers to know their boxes get beat to hell, theres enough boxes that look like total poop everyday. Im always completely honest with the customer and I tell them that everyone from the unloaders to the sort guys to the loaders and to the drivers, were all getting beat down like a dog as far as the time and the amount of boxes being thrown down our throats. The customers see it and don't believe for a second their not taking note of how bad these idiots run the operation. Im just being completely honest with them and they see it with their own eyes.
By The Book
Well-Known Member
There's a app for that.
brown bomber
brown bomber
perfect delivery according to UPS, saved time...ergo, saved $$$
TooTechie
Geek in Brown
Little worse now that it's on youtube.
BrownTexas
Well-Known Member
A gate is there to keep something in... Or keep something out. I always assume it was put there to keep me out.
bleedinbrown58
That’s Craptacular
Or get fired....management may turn a blind eye but if some customer caught that on camera and it ended up on the local news....you'd be done.
bleedinbrown58
That’s Craptacular
I may toss packages but I don't intentionally set out to damage them. If a package is mangled....I will refuse to load it. My favorite is the opened ones where half the contents spilled down the belt or down the grates. Sup will tape it up with whatever's left in the box and tell us to load it. Oh, well at least they'll still getting their package....wtf? Who wants half of what they ordered??
bleedinbrown58
That’s Craptacular
upschuck
Well-Known Member
It wasn't me!!
