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Anonymous #1
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Parcel handler / driver AMA
#23936788 - 12/17/16 10:32 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I see some of you folks freak out over package delivery dates or who sees what and when. What is set aside and the like. I've been a package handler for a year and recently started driving. We've seen boxes blow out with pounds of weed, cocaine, baggies of RC's. For the most part, if no one else sees it, we tape it back up and send it out for delivery. It's just too busy to care and usually all the package handlers are druggies, so you're most likely to get a pinched bag than get pinched.
Outside of trade secrets & operations I'm cool with answering questions on a non-USPS delivery company. Maybe it can help idk, but if you're wondering about that box of drugs that was supposed to be there or you're freaking out checking tracking numbers maybe I can answer some questions as an "insider".
AMA if you have a question cheers!
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Xero1
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I hate that Italian motherf***er "Fra-gile" He orders so much shit.
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Re: Parcel handler / driver AMA [Re: Xero1] 2
#23936853 - 12/17/16 10:48 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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It's ok. We don't recognize his existence on our soil.
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WhyDidiDoThis
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post in pub
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No thanks.
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MollyLucyMaryJane

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Quote:
Anonymous said: you're most likely to get a pinched bag than get pinched.
hahaa lol
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Mush 4 Brains
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A friend of mine works at ups and pockets things here and there. I guess before you leave they use a metal detector on you.
Whats the weirdest thing you found in a broken open package?
I recall my friend telling me how at work they found a package that contained a brick, a bottle of bleach, a short length of rope and a box of staples.
Oh and another time he said a package containing bull semen broke open and smelled exactly how you'd expect...DELICIOUS
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No on the metal detector. It depends on the hub. If there's a lot of complaints about theft, they may make employees go through a metal detector. They're not going to wand everyone. It's just not feasible. I don't know their volume but getting everyone to empty their pockets and walk through a detector and stand in line and shit, you'd have a lot of handlers quit. The best stuff doesn't set off alarms anyway. Cash/drugs/gift cards.
The best thing is the vibrator bomb scare but I think everyone moving parcels gets that. I don't know why people ship them with batteries. It gets old, and hangs us up. Someone mailed rotten steak before. I think their goal was to have it bust open on delivery or when they opened it but it busted upon right off freight.
The weirdest thing I found this season was a burner phone, a minute card, and a map. Like a treasure map. They should've drawn a Kraken and busted ship on it. It was almost deranged and how detailed it was. I don't know what it led to. Honestly I didn't want to know. My luck I'd think it's a stash of cash and end up finding a shipping container of people in the middle of nowhere. Some of these things you just don't want to know. After a while it don't matter and next month something is gonna one up it anyway.
But for like drugs and shit, you can assume night shift and most of Twilight shift to be tweaker or addict style users. If your key of H or coke breaks open its party time for everyone. Waiting on a supervisor and filling out forms and the extra scrutiny we would get isn't worth reporting stuff. Wrap it back up throw it on the line get back to work.
We do deliver/send necropsies and stuff which is kind of weird going to the animal clinic picking up coolers. It's like pet semetery shit. Your mind does get away with you when you do the same thing over and over and you're not allowed a radio.
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Mush 4 Brains
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Nice, this thread delivers! You get it? Delivers? Larf larf larf lol
No seriously though pretty interesting stuff
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Just curious - what is the ratio of packages that get delivered vs misplaced in the system?
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Re: Parcel handler / driver AMA [Re: Anonymous #2] 3
#23955538 - 12/25/16 12:27 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I can't give you a number. Millions upon millions. It's why delivery is 3 to 5 days. It's pretty common for a single hub to have freight on it that belongs on another truck. The driver will either deliver it for the other driver or meet up to pass it off in our system to another drivers system. That's why sometimes you'll see "Delivered at 6:00" and "Delivered at 6:01". It came off the original driver's route, then a minute later came off my system. Likewise with en route; it leaves Place A at 2:00 but drivers meet together at 5:00, so that can show on tracking twice. Sometimes if a package is really lost, you'll see Departed 2pm,2:34:3:00. It's just being moved around into other trucks with more misplaced packages, and their own packages to deliver. It's not like a time stamped controlled delivery black ops paranoid handoff of when we gave it to the cops to bust you.
Throughout the entire process, you gotta understand, there's a ton of people trying to get these things figured out and they're all mispacked or misplaced or labels rip or a chemical spills out of a foam cooler. No one on the line cares about your weed during high volume because the time it takes to do the paperwork you could've had hundreds more done and now you're holding up the line, then working twice as fast to catch up. Everything is always a different size, or a different weight or center of gravity or deceptive weight. Thin envelopes easily fall into poorly packed packages. People put USPS/UPS/DHL boxes in the wrong bins all the time, then blame the driver, but it's the sender's fault for giving it to the wrong company in the first place. Despite hundreds of places, sometimes a UPS will end with USPS and vice versa. Never ship with old labels on a box btw. It just draws scrutiny because it causes confusion at first. Not only will a box with 3 old labels get flipped incessantly by the machines, it will confuse the hell out of every person down the line. When you do the same thing thousands of times a day, you kind of go into auto mode, and a lot of stuff doesn't matter. A box for DHL or USPS with old labels in a different facility, put into the wrong bin.. just don't do it.
The other day a woman asked what the numbers on the packages mean. It's just how they're sorted and loaded onto our trucks so we can deliver them more efficiently. She was all cracked out and paranoid because we tried to deliver the day before. I had to make a large + and scribble stuff in it and she was like freaked out about it or something. It lets us know how many attempted deliveries and by whom and when. When you write so many it's just chicken scratch but you know it's getting put to the back of the truck as a non-deliver. It gets annoying seeing the same package because you get off route and see the same thing every day and it just gets in the way. But yeah to skeezed people, the large codes are route codes, the small masonic or demonic + sign is just us putting our initials and date that it tried to get to you. We are not writing new magic spells for the shadow people or whatever that lady was going on about.
But jokes aside don't be all cavalier. If an area needs like bomb dogs over an alarm clock and dildo, your shit is toast since the cops will make a killing on drug busts. There will always be that one crackhead on the line with nothing to lose hoping that he gets the $5000 reward for drugs from loss prevention services. If a box of cocaine gets hit with the corner of a recliner box, it's over anyway. It's why I tell everyone to always ship stuff in a box, and then again inside another with plenty of kraft paper since it holds better. When properly taped, it can take a literal kick and things end up fine at destinations. I would ship a sheet of acid in an envelope and then put that inside a mailer and a padded envelope, but that's just me. Those thin and slick things just fall in between other parcels or inside slightly-open boxes, or get stuck to the bottom of something. Very small, fine or slick envelopes should be sent air w/ signature required. I see people ship the large slick envelopes inside of boxes. It's common with payroll and banks or financial institutions.
Packages that tend to get no scrutiny are the ones you can grab in your hand and still easily hold, like a five pound 6x4x4. Neat and tidy, the cardboard holds well, it's nice with a light center of gravity. Really anything that can be grabbed, scanned, sorted easily. If I can hold it in one hand and drop it from waist-height, I know that it's been treated well all the way down the line. At the end of the day, the best looking boxes are the 6x6x4 and 444's. If I was mailing a bottle of pills, I'd stuff the bottle with cotton, and ship a small box in the next size up with kraft paper holding the bottles apart, and holding the smaller box secure. Vacu-bags of mushrooms I'd send in a more square size box, with padding around the bags and (again) around a box wide enough that it can be grabbed by one hand. Ship weed in big boxes, but wrap your shit, nice even centers of gravity. Hold your left hand on a top corner, and your right hand on the opposite bottom corner, and keep that package close against your chest. Did stuff slide when you picked it up? Does one part of the box feel uneven? If you can't comfortably hold it close to your chest and have it feel secure, it's more likely to have something happen to it. Go on Google and learn how to properly tape a box. Boxes that get open even a little bit have stuff happen to them, then they get more damaged and next thing you know the corner is going, and it opened a nice hole for anyone to look in and see what it is.
Just imagine 1000 people trying to figure out where from and where to as fast as they can, and with the least confusion. The neater and easier the better and no one will ever know.
Edited by Anonymous (12/25/16 01:43 AM)
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Xero1
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Re: Parcel handler / driver AMA [Re: Anonymous #1] 2
#23955552 - 12/25/16 12:42 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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