What was it like when Jim Casey died

[Brownisbrown]

I noticed most of you guys have been in UPS before the dinosaurs went extinct and some of you even retired before I was even born. So you guys are the best to ask, what was it like in UPS when Jim died?

Sometimes I will read some old fliers from the early 2000s from desks that have been abandoned in this office for years talking about the legacy of Jim and how he was a hero amongst heroes.

Do you guys really think he was really that great of a founder? if you were around when he died, how did everyone react? was it like kim jong il dying in North Korea where everyone mourned for a week straight? (Just not at gunpoint)

 

[over9five]

Wait, he's dead?

 

[Brownisbrown]

Wait, he's dead?

So they say…..

 

[Thebrownblob]

Wait, he's dead?

Pretty sure I saw him with Elvis, Tupac and Jamie Hoffa, having breakfast.

 

[pkgdriver]

Think there is a poster or two that met him.

 

[oldngray]

He made an appearance at my building not long before he died. I was working nights so didn't see him. Management were pretty much ting themselves over his visit even though he was little more than a figurehead at the time.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I noticed most of you guys have been in UPS before the dinosaurs went extinct and some of you even retired before I was even born. So you guys are the best to ask, what was it like in UPS when Jim died?

Sometimes I will read some old fliers from the early 2000s from desks that have been abandoned in this office for years talking about the legacy of Jim and how he was a hero amongst heroes.

Do you guys really think he was really that great of a founder? if you were around when he died, how did everyone react? was it like kim jong il dying in North Korea where everyone mourned for a week straight? (Just not at gunpoint)

Ask @rod. They both started here on the same day

 

[oldngray]

Ask @rod. They both started here on the same day

@rod hated using a bicycle to deliver

 

[Zowert]

He died in 1983, so there has to be a couple Boomers here that remember his passing.

 

[What'dyabringmetoday???]

He died in 1983, so there has to be a couple Boomers here that remember his passing.

Good luck with the juvenile delinquents around here.

 

[burrheadd]

Good luck with the juvenile delinquents around here.

I heard he liked dudes

 

[Darmark7]

He died in 1983, so there has to be a couple Boomers here that remember his passing.

I was 20 yrs old and had been with UPS almost 2 yrs at that time. I was working preload sorting. I do not remember anything special about that day. There might have been a mention of it but I don’t even remember that. Pretty sad now I think about it.

 

[Covemastah]

@rod hated using a bicycle to deliver

He was more into Donkeys

 

[oldngray]

He was more into Donkeys

Cute ass

 

[over9five]

I was 20 yrs old

Me too.
Remember they (UPS) used to make a really big deal out of "Founders Day"? You hear nothing of it nowadays.

 

[Thebrownblob]

Me too.
Remember they (UPS) used to make a really big deal out of "Founders Day"? You hear nothing of it nowadays.

I remember after the strike, they even had a little package car attached to a plaque that they gave us because we were gone on strike during founders day.

 

[pkgdriver]

I remember after the strike, they even had a little package car attached to a plaque that they gave us because we were gone on strike during founders day.

 

[Thebrownblob]

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That’s it!! I still have mine somewhere.


WDFD

 

[oldngray]

That’s it!! I still have mine somewhere.


WDFD

I still have mine too. The thing folds up into a box.

 

[pkgdriver]

That’s it!! I still have mine somewhere.


WDFD

Lower seniority drivers like @MECH-II missed out on really really cool stuff like this.
We also had a shindig at a Stadium near a hub. Static Displays,Food, and Brainwashing.