- Paper thin boxes are not a good choice for shipping bowling balls or anything else.
- More tape is always better! Always add one more piece after you think you have put on enough.
- Please put the whole address (for the recipient) on the label. If they live in an apartment it is helpful to put that information on the label. Leaving the apartment off lets your friends know you are incompetent or really forgetful.
- If you are shipping liquid and use the box with arrows make sure the liquid is in correctly. (I once had a box leak everywhere because I put the arrows up and the bottles were upside-down!)
- Take the batteries (or turn off the toy) out of the object you ship! One day I heard a Tickle Me Elmo every time I stepped on the truck. “Ha Ha that tickles. . .”
Also, there are still locations in the country where people don't have addresses!!
And we need phone numbers on those packages!!
The normal drivers that work these areas every day have the folks and their homes memorized but for someone like a vacation coverage driver, bad news for him.
Local governments across the country are replacing county road addresses with regular street addresses and during these confusing changes, a phone number for the receiver would really help the driver out.
I remember getting a call from a lady (some of these calls you just don't forget..) in a very tiny southern town who was waiting for her package. I asked what her address was. There were no addresses where she lived; she screamed that there was only one street in town and she lived down at the end in the pink house with the brown door. Like the entire world would know this.
Got another call from someone back east who lived in what used to be a very, very old mining community where some of the old huts still stood. Once again, no street name, no address. Come on people, if you have no address, can you help us out just a little??
