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I know two people who do a paper route at night. When they have to pee, they’ll do it right on your lawn. Or against your house.
This behaviour doesn’t surprise me at all. A lot of people have commented that the UPS centers are where your package will really get abused. My parents own a metalworking business, and one of their products are tables. They have 1/4″ iron bars, welded, with aluminum sides and brass accents (little half circles that they screw into the table) with a copper insert and a glass top. A least three or four times, the shops that they shipped the tables to arrived with broken weld joints, the brass accents *sheared* off (the screw on at least 1/4″, if not more) and the several of the iron bars bent! They’ve been using UPS for over 20 years, so they’re very familiar with the packing standards, but the way these tables were damaged was appalling. Unfortunately, UPS would only pay them wholesale value of the table, not retail.
We’ve also had mixed experience with drivers too. The driver we have now leaves dog treats for our 2 dogs. We had another driver that delivered to us for a year, and when it came time to chose routes again, he got beat out for our route by someone with more seniority. On the last day on his route, when he told us he wouldn’t be delivering to us anymore he started crying! Another driver drove like a madman, I can’t count the times I came around the corner, and he was coming down on my side of the road at 50mph. And that was before our road was paved; it was a really narrow road (you could see 3 tracks on the road from cars, one on each side, and one down the middle. If you wanted to pass someone coming the other way, both of you had to get on to the shoulder.), so meeting this man on the road was very dangerous and hair-raising.
Overall, we’ve had good luck with our drivers. With my parents business, UPS delivers or picks up almost daily, so we really get to know our drivers. Most of them have been really good, bring the packages to the porch, setting them down (not tossing like this jerk did), and being pleasant to interact with.
~ow3n
While I’m not condoning the guy’s behavior, there’s clearly a reaon he couldn’t/didn’t want to navigate the final stretch to the door.
@ncrnlboy While the messy yard and sloppily-parked cars aren’t firm proof of creepiness, normal suburbanites just don’t have multi-camera security systems with audio. Anyone who does is either has serious paranoia problems or is hiding something big. Besides, what little we can see of the yard points to some major-league sketchiness; who knows what the delivery guy saw that made him want to get the hell out of dodge?
Wow. I heard a lot of things like this about UPS recently and was willing to give them a break … until I got an order delivered by them from Amazon.ca. UPS delivered my 300 dvd by getting an elastic and hooking the dvd onto the door handle. Anyone in the 17 floor condo I live in could have just grabbed it and walked off. My door even had a mail slot, why not just drop it in? Nice to know someone caught an incident on tape! Way to go!
As outright rude and careless as that looks, it seems like the package and its contents were extremely lightweight and whatever was in there was probably in no damage of breaking. I think the guy sensed that which is why he had no problem in tossing it. Yeah it looks bad, and I’m sure he wouldn’t have done that if people were around, but I think the offense would be much worse if there were something heavier in there, like something electronic or made of glass. I’m sure the contents of the package (and the box itself) were just fine.
@bedofnails: No, we shouldn’t. The company should do ITS job.
@lestat730: That’s not an excuse for slacking. You aren’t hired to do a crappy job… if these guys don’t like their jobs they can get new ones.
@Eleo: Show me proof of the guy’s X-ray eyes.
So that is why the midgets i ship via ups are always covered in vomit when they arrive. sorry, l’il fellas!
@JENNIFERT: It’s actually a federal offense to use a mailbox or a mail slot for anything other than delivery of US Mail. That’s why. Did you check the label to see if your shipper had declared “no signature required” or “driver release”? That’s the only time a package should be left at an apartment without being signed for. UPS policy, not my opinion.
@CELTICKUJA: I will check the package again to see what it says and post back, I do not believe I saw no signature required however. Do the same laws apply in Canada?
I work for UPS in Connecticut. Obviously this wasn`t the best thing for the guy to do, you have to remember you cant judge a group by one person. Regardless of what you see in the video it is correct that shippers should pack their parcels with 1 inch packing inside to prevent most damage. There could have been something in his direct path as well blocking him from moving closer, he does stop and then throw, if he was in a real rush would he run and throw from a little further than that? Ever see your UPS guy run? I can tell you I do, especially this time of year. If the package is light enough where i know fully that what is inside is safe for a toss then i surely will. Our machines inside the huds are handling packages up to 70 lbs with packages .01 lbs. You have more to worry about inside of our and Fed Ex`s buildings than you do about us tossing a box. I find myself uncrushing boxes to make them presentable to the customer because the shippers will send you a tiny item in a gigantic box. if anything the item bouncing around the inside of a large box is causing more than the toss. any insider questions feel free to ask.
o.O. Holy shit, that is wrong on so many levels.
Wow! He was so dreamy, kinda like my U.P.S. delivery man! Gosh thats just too bad that this strapping lad was missed by whoever it is that inhabits this house. I feel so sorry for any lady who isnt home when these mysteriously alluring brown clad hunks make their stops.