HardwareGeek
join:2003-11-15
Brooklyn, NY | reply to IllIlIlllIll
Re: [video] UPS Delivers !
Big deal, I had my UPS driver drop a package down some stairs. Thankfully newegg and acer packed the monitor correctly.
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Ryno
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said by IllIlIlllIll  :said by Uhawl :You can afford all the surveillance equipment to capture this video, but can't afford to trim your hedges? If you don't have enough respect for your visitors to have the front walk accessible, then you deserve to have you packages tossed at your door. It may not be "professional" behavior by the UPS driver, but you earned it by not being accommodating to his arrival. i expected this to happen since my regular landscaper "disappeared" and at the time, i was not at home for more than a week. Looks like months of growth, not a week. You should post a vid of the walk from the street up to the porch, cause it sure does look like it zig-zags around a tree and through the bushes. |
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caddyroger
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said by Voodoo288 :Wow do you guys work for ups or somthing? If the package was fragile I hope he was fired. Yeap the driver was wrong he should have taken back to terminal because he could get to the house and had the the person come and get it. there should a letter stating that they will not deliver to that address unless there a sidewalk that clear junk cars bushes.  |
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lecroix
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join:2005-10-01 | reply to IllIlIlllIll
by the looks of the yard and drive, he should have left the package on the curb |
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Danimal85
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said by Combat Chuck :The key phrase there being "used to", which infers that your next statement should have been "there used to be no automated sorting." Yea, used to as in 1 year ago. Dude, there is no automated sorting. No matter how much you want to be right, you're not. Where are you getting your information from anyway? Have you ever personally seen the inside of a UPS hub? |
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ninjatutle
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Could be a fake video.
You see a shot of a UPS bread truck, guy get out, guy toss a box.
The shot of the van could have been shot on one day, the shot of the guy throwing the box at another time.  |
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Combat Chuck
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said by Danimal85 :Where are you getting your information from anyway? A trade magazine that I linked to where they interview a with a guy from UPS.
apparently that's not enough:
»money.howstuffworks.com/ups2.htm
»www.pressroom.ups.com/pressrelea···,00.html
If they're planning to offer next day service, particularly to international destinations, they're going to have automated sorting equipment; automated sorting is the whole point of maxicode.
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IllIlIlllIll
EliteData
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join:2003-07-06
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said by ninjatutle :Could be a fake video. You see a shot of a UPS bread truck, guy get out, guy toss a box. The shot of the van could have been shot on one day, the shot of the guy throwing the box at another time. heres the original video to dispel your theory.
the video i posted, i did some editing to it, specifically to emphasize each frame the action is contained in.
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Quaoar
join:2004-08-11
Fort Collins, CO
| In support of the UPS agent, although I do not have video evidence, one UPS driver/agent tossed a large package from the cul-de-sac in front of my house to the deck next to the front door because (I believe) my German Shepherd Dog, Karli, was doing her protection dog routine behind the front door. The toss was about 25 feet. Heh! No damage ensued from the toss!
OK,I admit that Karli, viewed from the front in the open, was (she died in February, 2007) looking like a vicious dog. However, she was inside the house at the time of this delivery. OTOH, although she looked dangerous, she was in fact a pussycat; the deliver agent had no knowledge of this. This, notwithstanding, does not excuse Karli or I, her owner, from complicity in this tossing even though the Karli dog was behind a closed door.
BTW, no signature was required for the package.
Anyway, this type of pathological delivery does happen, for sometimes realistic reasons: the delivery driver/agent obviously had experience with dangerous dogs, and elected for the "toss" rather than the "ring the doorbell" and possible "threat to his/her life" delivery.
I cannot fault his decision to toss. Most commercial shipments are impervious to tossing. OTOH, a computer should be returned to the UPS station rather than to be tossed.
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boogi man
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im calling bs on the vid too. i worked as a jumper during peak season once and then in the hub as a loader for a while. spidies or not the box woulda gotten to the door w/o being thrown. also whats with the date on the video? plus there's plenty of time between when he walks off frame then back on again for some kind of swticheroo. also who has ever seen a package car driver drive that slowly? i know i never have. even when they appear to be lost they do it in a hurry.
also on the point of keeping the path clear man that's not a weeks growth. |
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MightyPez
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said by Danimal85 :Yea, used to as in 1 year ago. Dude, there is no automated sorting. No matter how much you want to be right, you're not. Where are you getting your information from anyway? Have you ever personally seen the inside of a UPS hub? And I currently work for UPS. There is automated sorting. I know for a fact the Maple Grove, MN plant has been in operation for at least 3 years and has a completely automated sort. Unloaders and loaders, that's it. |
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Trevorm7
join:2005-01-17
Clearwater, FL | reply to IllIlIlllIll
That video had me laughing so hard it hurt. |
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dolphins
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I had a Automatic transmission for my truck shipped via UPS from a speedshop in California a few months ago. I watched it's progress online and spoke to a rep from UPS on the time it was to be delivered. I had my truck prepped and ready and planned on installing it that morning. So I kept waiting and watching out my door for most of the day. By 3pm I'm mad as hell because I was told it would be delivered first thing in the morning but it still has not arrived so I head out to my truck to close it up for the day and find my new transmission under my truck sitting on the asphalt with a damaged pan and a busted up shipping crate.
I wish I had surveillance cameras at that time.
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ninjatutle
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San Ramon, CA | reply to IllIlIlllIll
Check out the ride newegg gives to your items.
»www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2694
The ship ride over here is not the most pleasant either. |
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Goldman
join:2002-06-21
Maumelle, AR
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That little toss was nothing. I run a delivery service and we do much worse than that to packages all the time. If a piece of equipment isn't packed well enough to withstand that little toss, it is the fault of the shipper. You must ALWAYS pack with the assumption that the worst will happen to the shipment. Nothing in the box should rattle or sound loose. If you can shake the box and hear the parts rattle and hit the side of the box, you have not packed it right and it will get damaged by ANY carrier. |
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Lurch77
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I had some medication from the VA hospital delivered by UPS one day. I live in an apartment with an intercom. You ring a buzzer, I hit a button to ask who is there, they reply. Once confirmed who it is, I hit another button to buzz the door open. Little did I know that the outside speaker was not working the day I got this delivery. I kept trying to speak, but he could not hear me. I could hear him fine. After a few seconds, I hear him say "well fucking screw it then" and drop the package to the ground outside the door.
Not really a big deal, and I can understand him being upset with how busy they are. But it shows to check your attitude, as you never know who is watching/listening. |
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ManMachine
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»www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tN94ePhsd4
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ManMachine
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»www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqaGE3s8qyc |
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San Diego, CA | This is why you make sure to cushion the heck out of a package when before mailing it. I try to stick to a rule of at least two inches of padding all the way around an item if I can. |
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RR99i
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Newegg is pretty good at making sure the package is safe. My first package from them, I was like "WOW!". I didn't expect a small item to be in such a big package.
As for the video, I thought it was funny, good laugh. Just glad that wasn't my package, lol.
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