The rumors are flying

[PoirotAtUPS]

I had a couple of country gun shops on my route. Most EVERYTHING sent to the gun shops was COD-CASH ONLY. It wasn't unusual for me to have 8-9 10thousand in cash sitting around my truck because it was TOO much to fit in my billfold. I used to hide it under some crap on the shelves. Didn't think anything of it.

It’s been a long time since a COD could be paid in cash.

 

[Just A UPS Guy]

It’s been a long time since a COD could be paid in cash.

Yeah, he's old as .

 

[Thebrownblob]

It’s been a long time since a COD could be paid in cash.

Sometime in the 90s. I only was air driving at the time they were still collecting cash and collected cash several times for next day air packages

 

[Thebrownblob]

Yeah, he's old as .

Rope?

 

[PoirotAtUPS]

Yeah, he's old as .

To add color … Customer Centers stopped accepting cash in 2017 - driver‘s were before. I find myself willing to share more granular detail on posts these days.

 

[728ups]

I had a couple of country gun shops on my route. Most EVERYTHING sent to the gun shops was COD-CASH ONLY. It wasn't unusual for me to have 8-9 10thousand in cash sitting around my truck because it was TOO much to fit in my billfold. I used to hide it under some crap on the shelves. Didn't think anything of it.

I had a guy who ran a motorcycle cycle business and I was the same : 8-10 thousand every day

 

[Thebrownblob]

I had a guy who ran a motorcycle cycle business and I was the same : 8-10 thousand every day

I have heard some of the old dogs got in some trouble with gambling debts and missing COD monies

 

[bottomups]

I had a couple of country gun shops on my route. Most EVERYTHING sent to the gun shops was COD-CASH ONLY. It wasn't unusual for me to have 8-9 10thousand in cash sitting around my truck because it was TOO much to fit in my billfold. I used to hide it under some crap on the shelves. Didn't think anything of it.

Was always a pain in the ass during the county fair week. Would leave there with over a thousand in mostly singles.

 

[pkgdriver]

Always fun to have the onroad closer verify your cash. $20,000 with only a few 50s took time.

 

[728ups]

I have heard some of the old dogs got in some trouble with gambling debts and missing COD monies

Yeah I saw a couple of dumb asses get fired .
My favorite was a girl who was being “groomed “for management that got canned for keeping COD money a few days then paying it back
She couldn’t understand why she got fired as she told LP she was paying it back

 

[burrheadd]

Wood shelves?

Still had a couple of those well into the 90’s

 

[HarryWarden]

Sometimes. But these guaranteed full-time jobs are really not hard to win. the company learned that in the late 90s after they tried to drag their feet and pretend they didn’t have to give them after the strike of 97. What they do is make most of them as undesirable as possible.

Why create full time jobs when you can pay 2 part timers to do the job for almost half the cost?

 

[Thebrownblob]

Why create full time jobs when you can pay 2 part timers to do the job for almost half the cost?

Yep and that’s what the company would continue to do if we did not have those contractual guarantees in the contract for those full-time, 22.3 jobs.

 

[clean hairy]

It’s been a long time since a COD could be paid in cash.

When Rod started, cod's were paid in nuggets of gold kept in a safe in the covered wagon!

 

[burrheadd]

I have heard some of the old dogs got in some trouble with gambling debts and missing COD monies

Don’t think it was cod money but there was a guy in Lenexa that got jammed up with the mob over a gambling debt

 

[BrownSnowFlake]

It’s been a long time since a COD could be paid in cash.

Idk why we’re still collecting CODs at all when you can just push some buttons on your phone and transfer the money instantly.

 

[Next Day Err]

Idk why we’re still collecting CODs at all when you can just push some buttons on your phone and transfer the money instantly.

Some loser businesses don’t have lines of credit with their vendors.

 

[BrownSnowFlake]

Some loser businesses don’t have lines of credit with their vendors.

I know. Most of my CODs are rim shops and wig shops. What I’m saying is… there has to be an app for that. Just send the money from your phone when you receive the package. Why am I still collecting paper checks and money orders like it’s the 1900s? Checks bounce, it’s not like they’re any safer or more reliable.

 

[I have NOT been lurking]

I know. Most of my CODs are rim shops and wig shops. What I’m saying is… there has to be an app for that. Just send the money from your phone when you receive the package. Why am I still collecting paper checks and money orders like it’s the 1900s? Checks bounce, it’s not like they’re any safer or more reliable.

Wat .gov agency would like a paper trail?

 

[Next Day Err]

I know. Most of my CODs are rim shops and wig shops. What I’m saying is… there has to be an app for that. Just send the money from your phone when you receive the package. Why am I still collecting paper checks and money orders like it’s the 1900s? Checks bounce, it’s not like they’re any safer or more reliable.

Too few businesses would use this service. The market isn’t big enough to justify creating the app, etc.