pkg car driver pet peeves

[canon]

Bugs me that we can't hire someone to proof read our website.

This is from the Business Code of Conduct

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Truely it's an age of spellcheckers. I might not be able to sleep tonight.

 

[flitzer]

Here are some of mine.....

-when a customer thinks I have the time to wait on them to go buy a money order that should have already been purchased right after they ordered whatever is in the package

-when I'm about done filling out the info notice and as I'm attempting to place it on the door the person answers and they look like they are half dead and pissed off that they had to get up to answer the door IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY!

-when DHL parks their little mini vans at the dock just to deliver a few pacakges (yet still takes forever) when they should have parked to the side so trucks with more work (enough to warrant backing to the dock) could have parked there.

-in the morning when drivers at the front end of the belt (we are a small building with one belt running down the middle with the package cars on each side of it) leave and those of us at the end of the belt are stuck with their NDAs and other packages that some how made their way down to the end of the building

I am definitely one of those people. I start my day working the metro, then I go to my full-time job - which is the graveyard shift. I am usually home by 8AM. On the rare occasion that I get a package the driver will just leave it, knowing my situation. Who knew that working for UPS would have its little perks?

 

[hoser]

I have customers who ask, "What kind of 'junk' are you bringing me today?"
My standard reply is: "We deliver 'stuff'. If it was 'junk', another delivery company would be delivering it."

...and then the bestbuy manager opens the box, and is estatic to see that his flyers advertising $10 off digistar plasma tvs came in. once you break your back bringing in 4 more of those, he'll be sure to put them on the rack in the corner of his store before throwing them out 3 days later.

i missed fedex because almost every express envelope/box that i delivered was important. no poorly packaged u-hell boxes of grandma's personal effects, no 100 lb shoe-boxes full of worthless lugnuts, no boxes of friend'n flyers. while at ups, i literally move dirt and sand. and lugnuts. and wal-mart flyers. although ups is a well oiled company by catering to this market demand, it can easily bring down someone's morale, fast.

 

[Covemastah]

are you sure it for me,we never ordered from ups duh!! do you have to go back to ups and get more when this is empty !!!!!! or how about this classic!! lady pulls up to truck and says do you have my pkg ,you dont know her and she insist you have it , said she has yellow slip. ya look at the slip and find out its from the post ofice and she lives 2 towns away !!! xmas eve snowing 7 at nite at guys house and he says to me "ha ! they keepin ya busy ? "

 

[new]

Customers who own a $400,000 house, but can't afford a $500 snowblower.

 

[Overpaid Union Thug]

I also really hate when I knock on the door and yell "UPS!" and the person keeps says "Who is it?!" and then folllows that with several "Who??". I feel like screaming...."JUST ANSWER THE #&$ DAMN DOOR!!!"

 

[deezilfuelonly]

I love when you have a misload thats 2 miles past the building and the sup says 'can you get that on the way in?" 1

 

[Brownnblue]

How about the kid at Taco Bell who takes 10 minutes to sign "Johnny Smith" with a smile on his face like it's the biggest day of his life. I always clarify the signature last name as "maroon" just to make myself feel better about the whole transaction.

Once I asked a guy for his John Hancock. He signed it "J. Hancock"

 

[loserupser]

This is a classic! When the preloader throws a box of bolts or nut on the floor and as soon as you touch it, it rips and you have hundreds of pieces you now have to pick up!!!!!!!

 

[brownmonster]

The desk-dweller that thought it was a good idea to let customers stuff my letter box full of ARS pkgs so I can hardly open it. The fool at Christmas at the front desk of a motel as I tried to deliver a cheesecake. "We don't get cheesecake". Someone must be sending you one. "I didn't order a cheesecake, send it back". Ever hear of a Christmas give you dumba$$!

 

[Cementups]

I like how I will be delivering around 6:00pm in the winter and people say, "Working late tonight?", but when it's 6pm in the summer and I'm sweating my balls off, they think nothing of it while they are playing with their kids while I'm still hard at work.

When they ask me if it's ticking, I just look at them with the most serious of looks and say, "Package bombs don't tick Ma'am/Sir.."

I will be delivering a package that now resembles an accordion and they asked me what happened. ot kind of ease the tension I tell them I had some trouble reaching the top shelf and needed a boost. I do this with visuals of myself stepping on package. The part that makes it funny to me is that I'm 6'2" and have absolutely no problem reaching the top shelf in my tiniest of package cars.

When they ask me "What is it?" I pull my head down in a sad manner and pronounce my disgust that I am no longer allowed to open packages anymore unless they have my name on it.

My preload pet peeveisa load like this. notice all teh empty space but yet they felt the need to jam everything up to the front of the truck.

and loads like this by a guy that has been loading trucks for close to 15 years:

I take pics of my load when it's bad becuase the Sups tend to not believe you when you tell them how bad it is. So in turn they get 8"x11" prints of my load so they KNOW how bad it really is.

 

[Jack4343]

Yeah, that is a pretty pathetic load. As I will be getting ready for work in a few, those pics send chills down my spine!

 

[EAM_Master]

Wow......If that was something I loaded I would be ashamed to call my self a preloader. One of the things I can't stand about PAS is how if you get a split it almost always ends up with 8999 as the HIN number.

 

[feederrat1]

I love the 20 pkg OCA you get at 5:30. Then in the notes it says needs 20 ASD's. Need an air meet point!

 

[westsideworma]

I like how I will be delivering around 6:00pm in the winter and people say, "Working late tonight?", but when it's 6pm in the summer and I'm sweating my balls off, they think nothing of it while they are playing with their kids while I'm still hard at work.

When they ask me if it's ticking, I just look at them with the most serious of looks and say, "Package bombs don't tick Ma'am/Sir.."

I will be delivering a package that now resembles an accordion and they asked me what happened. ot kind of ease the tension I tell them I had some trouble reaching the top shelf and needed a boost. I do this with visuals of myself stepping on package. The part that makes it funny to me is that I'm 6'2" and have absolutely no problem reaching the top shelf in my tiniest of package cars.

When they ask me "What is it?" I pull my head down in a sad manner and pronounce my disgust that I am no longer allowed to open packages anymore unless they have my name on it.

My preload pet peeveisa load like this. notice all teh empty space but yet they felt the need to jam everything up to the front of the truck.

and loads like this by a guy that has been loading trucks for close to 15 years:

I take pics of my load when it's bad because the Sups tend to not believe you when you tell them how bad it is. So in turn they get 8"x11" prints of my load so they KNOW how bad it really is.

wow I have bad days sometimes, but they never EVER look like that...damn.

 

[Wilson1397]

I usually tell them. Do you honestly think if i could see thru this package i would be doing this for a living? jokingly of course.

 

[Miss Victoria]

How about, "I ordered this weeks ago", "Why doesn't Canada Post deliver this any more?"

Info notices that you previously circled SIGNATURE REQUIRED (to which I usually circle 'in person') are left the next day with a signature on the back... too bad.

A bruised box, upon delivery the consignee remarks...."what can't brown do for you...." or "what did you do, run over it when you saw FRAGILE"

Fragile stickers on STANDARD shipments PERIOD.. yeah FRA GEE LAY....

unlike Sleep Country we do not assemble beds or any electronic devices upon delivery

"you must like King of Queens"

 

[The Brown Santa]

Info notices that you previously circled SIGNATURE REQUIRED (to which I usually circle 'in person') are left the next day with a signature on the back... too bad.

Yeah, that's a good one. What part of "IN PERSON" don't they get?

My personal new one is a diad message "bring package to customer counter tonight for pickup" Then, the next morning it's back in the load. And guess what, they still aren't home....

 

[hoser]

I also really hate when I knock on the door and yell "UPS!" and the person keeps says "Who is it?!" and then folllows that with several "Who??". I feel like screaming...."JUST ANSWER THE #&$ DAMN DOOR!!!"

i HATE that too. unrelated, i always answer the phone at work, slowly and clearly: 'ups, this, is, joe, speaking' and 80% of the time the caller says 'can i speak with joe?' so i say slower, 'you, pee, ess, th, is, is, jah, oh, speak, ing'

I take pics of my load when it's bad becuase the Sups tend to not believe you when you tell them how bad it is. So in turn they get 8"x11" prints of my load so they KNOW how bad it really is.

PUT IT IN A FRAME!!!

Info notices that you previously circled SIGNATURE REQUIRED (to which I usually circle 'in person') are left the next day with a signature on the back... too bad.

Now let's be fair, before I worked for UPS I would sometimes get those, and I don't know if they actually mean "IN PERSON", so I sign off on it hoping the driver would make an exception to the rule. Now I realise that unlike FX (who used to have signatures on paper so you could take the signature sticky and put it on the POD sheet), it has to be via DIAD.

 

[neverenuff]

Hello folks, just joined for the first time. I guess this is the place to air things out? Anyways, I am an Indiana UPS driver. IN regards to pet peeves, I always liked "what did I order?"...oh yeah, I remember now". I guess a VERY important delivery! One other one that REALLY bothers me is when a customer comes up to the truck while you are sorting and you are unaware that they are out there waiting for you. I think that is rude. The polite thing to do is to announce their presence so you aren't startled when you hop out of the truck. That really, really bothers me.