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TheRealShadowX
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DEC 24, 04:50 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by DrCPU:
Thanks Archie!
UPS mustha used the crate for bomb practice, or to see how many times the crate could drop and bounce before they heard a crash and lots of snickering.
Like I said, I've been sooooo freeeekin busy, they would have stayed in the garage (impatiently). With the new pup coming by the end of the month (Ginger still has no clue) I'll be taking a couple of weeks off and will have time to do the windows, air horn and other bits and pieces!
No harm, no foul, as long as you do not lose out. I say they were worth $1 Billion dollars in case of damage!
Sock it 2'em!
Dave
PS The pup will be twice Ginger's size at 8 weeks. Should be a hoot!
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I work at UPS and let me tell ya, what you said about dropping the box to see if it bounces isn't that far from true! Don't worry, I didn't break your windows! The majority of my fellow employees treat packages right, but every so often there are the brainless idiots that whip S*** around and just don't care one bit. I assure you, NO MATTER WHAT BULL UPS TRIES TO TELL YOU, THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHO BROKE YOUR PACKAGE!!! Every time a package moves from one destination to another on one of it's several stops before your home, it gets scanned by an employee. In fact, any time the package changes hands within UPS, it gets scanned. Whenever a package is scanned, the person who scanned it is held accountable for the packages safety. When the next person scans it, it becomes their responsibility, and if they discover it to be broken, the previous employee is disciplined accordingly. If one employee receives enough damages, they can even be terminated! Now, understand that accidents do happen, and they don't always happen from carelessness. Buuut my money says that in YOUR case, it likely was dropped. Kinda hard to break something in a wooden crate otherwise! ------------------
"He took my stapler. I could burn this building down."
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madcurl
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FEB 12, 02:22 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by DrCPU:
I promise to do something this winter!!
Dave
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TrackMagicWS6
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FEB 17, 06:02 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by TheRealShadowX:
I work at UPS and let me tell ya, what you said about dropping the box to see if it bounces isn't that far from true! Don't worry, I didn't break your windows! The majority of my fellow employees treat packages right, but every so often there are the brainless idiots that whip S*** around and just don't care one bit. I assure you, NO MATTER WHAT BULL UPS TRIES TO TELL YOU, THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHO BROKE YOUR PACKAGE!!! Every time a package moves from one destination to another on one of it's several stops before your home, it gets scanned by an employee. In fact, any time the package changes hands within UPS, it gets scanned. Whenever a package is scanned, the person who scanned it is held accountable for the packages safety. When the next person scans it, it becomes their responsibility, and if they discover it to be broken, the previous employee is disciplined accordingly. If one employee receives enough damages, they can even be terminated! Now, understand that accidents do happen, and they don't always happen from carelessness. Buuut my money says that in YOUR case, it likely was dropped. Kinda hard to break something in a wooden crate otherwise!
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Since you work at UPS you know that a pkg has to be able to survive a fall from 4 feet onto concrete and not break because thats how high the belts are.------------------
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Archie
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FEB 17, 07:29 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by madcurl:
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Yeah, good memories, good times.
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TheRealShadowX
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FEB 17, 10:16 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by TrackMagicWS6:
Since you work at UPS you know that a pkg has to be able to survive a fall from 4 feet onto concrete and not break because thats how high the belts are.
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Not the package in question. His package is what would be considered "bulk" and bulk packages (At my hub anyway) do almost NO riding on belts. They go from one area of the building (unload) to another (bulk sort) on a belt and that's it. And that belt is about 6" off of the ground at the start and maybe 2 1/2 Ft at the end. From there they are hand loaded on to tug carts and dealt with by hand from then on. I absolutely agree that they SHOULD have to survive certain falls, but to my knowledge, there are no such regulations. Perhaps that is a suggestion made by UPS to our customers, but if so, people certainly don't follow it. Instead of beefing up their packages, people seem to think that a few "Fragile" and "This end up" stickers take care of it. That is a joke. The belt system doesn't give a s*** what stickers you put on it, because those machines aren't going to read them. I'd say that 3/4's of the damaged boxes occur in transit on the belts, slides and diverters. My rule is, If you would hesitate to jump on your box, then it's not safe to ship it. When we stack packages into walls inside freight trailers, the packages on the bottom can easily be subjected to 500 lbs of weight on top of them. That's under normal circumstances! So if you wouldn't put your own weight on a package, why would you put 500 lbs on it? If an employee does their job correctly the way they are trained, the weight on your package is evenly distributed and it will be perfectly safe. But why chance it? It only takes one moron to destroy your package.
Anyway, sorry to hijack! No more from me! Back to the show!------------------
"He took my stapler. I could burn this building down."
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madcurl
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MAR 12, 05:22 PM
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madcurl
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JUN 10, 05:21 PM
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madcurl
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JUL 11, 01:28 AM
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We need pics.
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madcurl
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OCT 08, 03:53 PM
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Oh my goodness! Fall bump.
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madcurl
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NOV 12, 08:32 PM
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