When you went to driving school didn't loss prevention tell you that you are not aloud to stick you had in a box. If it's open you can tape it up. IF you shake it and it sounds like it broken bring it back to the building and give it the clerk.
Opening packages and checking to see if something is broke is a good way to get accussed of stealing something that is why you don't open packages up. It's also a great way to get fired.
1. I am retired and was just relating how things were in the good old days.
2. I never went to driving school. I went straight from a few months working
as a part timer to full time delivery driver. NO schooling
3. Not that they probably weren't around but I can only remember one time in 30 years that we knew a loss prevention dude was at our center.
4. Way back then the company was more interested in providing a good service to our customers than nitpicking every friggin aspect of delivering a box.
5. The bottom line is we were working as directed. I've seen drivers chewed out because they brought back a box that they "thought" was damaged. The game back then was "get rid of every box every day".
6. I do realize "the times they are (have been since UPS went public) a changing.
On a serious note we did complete tons of deliveries that sounded like something was broken- but wasn't. That is why God invented taper guns- right kenmei?
