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Sherbabe

Tuesday, August 05, 2003 - 03:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My co worker, in his younger days, delivered pizza for a living. He had a colorful story he shared w/ me. I thought I'd pass it on for a good laugh. One evening he delivered pizza to a "notorious" house. When the door opened there stood the lady of the house dressed in white see-thru lingerie, complete w/ garters. Husband was sitting in living room. Lady asked if he wanted a tip, to which he stuttered. Husband in backgroud said to show him your "?its". Husband said at least come in and have a beer. He went in home had a beer w/ them and said wife flashed him several times.
Sad part of this story was there were 2 toddlers in house playing in another room. He said they never came in room when he was there, but, that was not cool.

Squaredsc

Tuesday, August 05, 2003 - 03:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
oh my sherbabe.

Kaili

Tuesday, August 05, 2003 - 07:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Heehee- you couldn't resist. I thought of a really good one on my way to work, but I forgot it already. There's one driver who told me about going to a sorority house to drop off a package and some girls were walking around half naked, but he's a compulsive liar so I don't know that I believe him. You never know though...

Cathie

Tuesday, August 05, 2003 - 09:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Mine isn't a crazy delivery story, but just a crazy question. Do all UPS delivery people put the package under the doormat when the resident is not home? In our area they do that, no matter how large the package. It looks stupid! Do they really think the doormat hides the box on the porch? I had a priner delivered recently, and the box was 30"x20"x15" and the friggin doormat was laying on top of the box as usual! Well, THAT will certainly keep all the thieves away from stealing my mail!

Kaili

Tuesday, August 05, 2003 - 10:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL- no they don't Cathie. Usually they'll leave a delivery slip, or just set it down if no signature is required. I think you have a disgruntled UPS driver. He was probably yelled at at some point for NOT placing a package under a mat, and he's probably being rebellious by doing it ALL the time now.

It's maybe a UPS thing but when we get yelled at for something stupid (and the only time management bothers with us is for that), we will exaggerate as much as possible to make the point that whatever we got yelled at for is stupid (if it really is). They expect us to have 10 arms and be 15 places at once and yell for stuff that we have no control over. An example:

There's two good routes to Steven's Point from here. This one driver took one highway and he happened to hit a deer. He was late (and it IS all about the numbers) and was yelled at because- no joke- if he hadn't driven on THAT highway he would never had hit the deer. He is no longer allowed to drive on that highway to get there.

The same week a different driver hit a deer on the other highway. It's Wisconsin- we have deer.

Spygirl

Tuesday, August 05, 2003 - 10:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, I have to chime in and say that my UPS guy in Louisiana always put my packages under my mat no matter how large or small they were. I found it to be hilarious and thought it was a quirk my guy had!

Kaili

Tuesday, August 05, 2003 - 10:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Really? Hmmm...well that's just funny. I should put a mat out and order something just to check (and for giggles).

I'm going to have to try to remember to ask about this tomorrow night.

Lucy

Tuesday, August 05, 2003 - 10:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Our UPS guy is in such a hurry there's no way he'd stop and put a package under the map. He may however throw it from a distance onto the mat.

Sherbabe

Saturday, August 09, 2003 - 06:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I thought there would be a lot more stories people would tell. Oh well.

Kaili

Monday, August 11, 2003 - 05:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ahhh- that reminds me now taht this was bumped to new messages- I asked about the mat thing and it's one of their rules- they're supposed to do whatever they can to conceal the package. Some I talked to said they would have put it around the corner or checked to see if the garage was open to leave it. I guess they figure if a mat is over it, it's more concealed than nothing over it and from a distance it may look less like a box (whatever). The supervisors sure didn't know why- I said "Why do drivers put doormats over big boxes"- I guess it sounded like the first line of a joke to a lot of people. Anyway, it's a rule kinda like the brown UPS socks and having the keychain on the pinkie finger.

Mpls

Monday, August 11, 2003 - 06:54 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I worked part time for Airborne for about a year. I always hoped for that "fantasy" encounter with a lonely lovely while delivering a package, but never got any such action. Not even someone in sheer lingerie.

What was strange though is that several times I was asked if I would be able to pick up peoples UPS packages.., duh, I had on all the Airborned gear in an Airborne truck.

Costacat

Monday, August 11, 2003 - 06:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My UPS gal doesn't put anything under a mat (although the UPS person who delivers to my mom in Colorado Springs puts it around the corner of their garage -- out of sight).

I love my UPS person. She's awesome! I live in a security condo building, and sometimes it's tough to get deliveries (there are times when there is NO ONE around who can sign for a package). I'd been waiting for a delivery of my new computer earlier this year, and I was watching the Tracking page to be sure I was home when it was "out for delivery." So I check tracking, and it's still showing as being up in the LA area. I go run an errand -- I'm gone only an hour -- and get back and there's a freakin' yellow slip on the front door to the building. I run upstairs, call the 800#, and manage to get a message to the local center... She's GOT TO BE IN THE AREA! Can she come back? I manage to persuade the local center to try to contact her; after a bit they do call back and tell me the general area where she'll be for another hour. I dash out in my car, and see a big brown truck several blocks up the road. When I finally catch up with her, she takes one look at me and just cracks up! Says it's the first time someone has chased her down the road like that!

Cinder

Monday, August 11, 2003 - 02:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My UPS guy in NM would sometimes put my trash can in front of my door to block the package. I was ratehr impressed because a bungee cord attached the can to the house so it would not blow away- and he took the time to unhook it and move it. I thought it was strange though the first time it happened. I was rather curious as to why my trash can was in front of my door.

Essence

Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 07:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I guess in my case it depends on how the driver is feeling. Some days packages are under the mat at my front door, other times they are under the mat at my patio door. If he leaves it at the patio door, there is a slip on the front door telling me that the package is on the patio.

Sia

Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 12:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gee, if the UPS driver wanted to make a big package less visible on my porch, he should just put it behind the brick wall where it can't be seen, not just put a door mat on top of it while blocking the front door with it!
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What irks me, though, is that the UPS guy leaves our stuff on the front porch and we don't even use that part of the house. Things can sit out there for days unnoticed! When I see on-line that my package was "signed for," (another joke, since I've never seen my UPS guy) I know to go look on the porch.

Cathie

Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 01:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL, I have also had my package "signed for" on the online tracking. They put "porch" as the signature. I had no idea my porch was so smart!

In the 24 years we have lived at our current house only once did a delivery person bother to go around to the back of the house and leave a package on the patio. Of course, he/she forgot to leave a note and we didn't find it for several days.

I think the next time I order something I will remove the doormat and hide it in the garage and see how clever and creative our UPS person can really be, lol. :)

Kaili

Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 01:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was laughing about this thread the other day because I live in a security locked apartment- my neighbor got a package note on the door outside that said his box was in the "garage"- we have a long open car port- not garages and not assigned by apartment number. Also nobody usually parks in them except in winter or hail. Anyway, I peeked over at the covered parking area- not a single car in there but right smack in the middle, leaning against the wall, is a box.

Last time this guy got a package we had just had a bunch of bags of new phone books dropped off outside. The driver very carefully half buried the box in the phonebooks and left the note on the door.

Oh- and the signed for thing- not all packages have to be signed for- when you ship something you indicate if a signature is required for delivery. If it isn't, they'll leave it.

Whoami

Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 01:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow Cathie! That is amazing that your porch can sign for packages!

When I had my computer delivered last month, I waited all day for it to arrive, and tracked it on-line. No show...until suddenly, the on-line notice said "delivery attempt failed, customer unavailable or business closed."

No way was I going to let that go by. Called FedEx up and let them have it with both barrels. The computer was there within the hour.

Don't tell me I was "unavailable!" Ha, I didn't even go to the bathroom that day, for fear it would take me too long to get back downstairs if I heard the doorbell ring!

Denecee

Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 03:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My mom sent us a gift box via ups and called days after it should have arrived to see how we liked it. I told her we haven't received it yet as I was looking outside watching the kids on their bikes. For the last couple of days they were using a box and a piece of wood to do jumps. You guessed it, the jump box was our gift box!

Appletalk

Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 06:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
One night my 10 year old nephew and I decided to order a pizza and watch a game on television. We ordered pizza + an order of chicken wings to be delivered. I gave my nephew the money and told him to pay the delivery person when they came and tell them to keep the change. The pizza came he paid for it the delivery person left and we sat down to eat. I noticed right away that we didn't get what we had ordered (wrong pizza and no wings) So I called the pizza place after some confusion they apologized and said they would send out the correct order and that we could just keep what we got. Since we were hungry we started to eat -The pizza was just not as good as usual and I had a thought, I got up and looked at the boxes - and - found that the pizza was not even from the pizza place where I had placed my order. I then had to call my pizza place tell them I had made a mistake and that their delivery person had not even been to my house yet. Then I had to call the wrong pizza place and tell them that they had delivered pizza to my house and I had paid for it erroneously. Finally found out that my neighbor had ordered pizza to be delivered at the same time - and it had been delivered to my house. They came back and gave me my money back and brought new fresh pizza to my neighbor. My delivery man came in the mean time with my order. We all finally enjoyed our own pizza.

Whoami

Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 06:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow, how confusing Appletalk!

I remember my mom trying to come home from work one night, and the Pizza Hut gal had parked across our driveway to deliver pizza next door. She then went inside and visited for a few minutes.

Meanwhile, Mom is outside honking her horn to get the girl to come move her car. I look outside, see what's happening, and call Pizza Hut to give them an earful.

I had my car parked in the front of the house so Mom could get her car in the garage. The pizza girl ran out to her car, and spun out as she was leaving (it was an icy/snowy day) and came within inches of taking my car out with her. I was still on the phone, and boy did I let Pizza Hut know about it!