What is the strangest thing you have ever delivered?

[bbsam]

I used to deliver to our local community college and about once a month the biology lab would get their shipment of cats. When I was on my country run I would pick up and deliver bull semen canisters.

Do you know how much that stuff costs?! Not that I've bought any, but from what I've heard it's thousands of dollars. I've really got to find a way to market myself.

 

[upsgrunt]

Do you know how much that stuff costs?! Not that I've bought any, but from what I've heard it's thousands of dollars. I've really got to find a way to market myself.

Cats? They're not that expensive.
If you had to buy the semen by the gallon, it would be 10's of thousands of dollars per gallon.

 

[scratch]

If you had to buy the semen by the gallon, it would be 10's of thousands of dollars per gallon.

Bull semen is sold frozen in "straws", so it can be inserted where it goes. My family used to raise horses and Limosin beef cattle, but we used the old tried and trued method of having a bull there.

 

[moreluck]

And I'm sure the bull thanked you !

 

[dilligaf]

And they all said "Please ring doorbell or knock". Don't remember seeing that before.

Yep! That is relatively new.

 

[dilligaf]

This time of year, until next fall, we get boxes of fly wasps to the feed lots and dairies. These things stink pretty bad.

The bovine and swine semen are pretty common here.

Apple Court packages have come to be pretty common also.

I had a consignee in a small town that was a distributor of "adult toys", she held parties every week in the same manner as tupperware. I tried to get her to tell me who was on her client list, but she declined.lol

My neighbor across the street did that for awhile.

 

[dilligaf]

I love coffee but not 50 lbs of it--that smell lingers for the day, too.

I love the smell of coffee.


The one I don't like is one of our daily pick ups. They distribute herbals. Insence and what not. I get an instant headache just walking in the door. I can't stand the back of the truck after about 5 minutes of having the boxes in there.

 

[dilligaf]

A live 24" albino boa constrictor, the cnee could not wait to show me.

A gecko. It was NDA'd to a non-committed area. I'm not sure if it lived or not.

 

[dilligaf]

We've had crickets and honey bees by the cases. A box of porn broke open on the belt one morning. The guys were having fun with that one.

 

[Dagoof]

It wasnt shipped to Washington was it? because i delivered someones uncle once

 

[Signature Only]

A 160 lb, yes 160 lb; green entrance gate for Rancho San Yisdro to replace one a BMW had damaged. The homeowners association guy told me it cost $16,000.00 and the young girl's family had to pay.

 

[bigbrownhen]

And I'm sure the bull thanked you !

Im sure he was happier than the ones who donate for the straws. Poor fellas never get to see the girls.

 

[upsdawg]

I remember a 5 gallon plastic bucket rolling around the back of my package car-----aand when I carried it into the funeral parlor the customer's eyes got real big-----he said that if the seal had broken it would have burned every hair off my body--something that they used for enbalming----gave me the creeps--and it's been 25 years ago and I still think about it!!

 

[soberups]

I remember a 5 gallon plastic bucket rolling around the back of my package car-----aand when I carried it into the funeral parlor the customer's eyes got real big-----he said that if the seal had broken it would have burned every hair off my body--something that they used for enbalming----gave me the creeps--and it's been 25 years ago and I still think about it!!

I used to deliver to a funeral home also, and I remember all too well the boxes and flasks of embalming chemicals. I always delivered thru the rear service entrance, which was adjacent to the "prep room". The door to that room was usually closed....but one day it had gotten left ajar and the memory of what I saw ( and smelled) in there on the table will be forever etched into my brain.