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    Brown Can Thrash Your Packages With A 30-Yard Delivery Toss, That's What

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    01/05/09

    In reply to Brown Can Thrash Your Packages With A 30-Yard Delivery Toss, That's What
    I wonder if he shouted, "Incoming!" before hurling that package?
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    Image of infmom infmom
    01/05/09

    In reply to Brown Can Thrash Your Packages With A 30-Yard Delivery Toss, That's What
    Wow, he must have worked at Fry's Electronics. That's how we got the merchandise back to the aisle it was supposed to be in, from the aisle we found it on.
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    Image of Logan5 Logan5
    01/05/09

    In reply to Brown Can Thrash Your Packages With A 30-Yard Delivery Toss, That's What
    If this is what the delivery process is like imagine what packages go through in transit.


    Which unfortunately places a burden on the sender to withstand this sort of mistreatment and extend that by several order of magnitude.

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    Image of Curves Curves
    01/05/09

    @Logan5: You know, I see a good article for Giz in what you said. Lets get an intern, package him with a laptop and send him cross country so he can blog first hand. He can take a camera and we can watch the abuse live.


    (There is just NOTHING like the breaking in a new intern.)

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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    01/05/09

    In reply to Brown Can Thrash Your Packages With A 30-Yard Delivery Toss, That's What
    I can't fucking stand UPS. Twice, they've come to my door and left a note ... and not bothered to knock or ring the doorbell when I was home. And I caught them both shortly after they took off, asking why in the hell didn't they knock? Both answered "I'm late on my route". After my last package was delivered from them, which was almost 2 weeks late, I said no more.


    Fuck UPS, and their union. Bastards.

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    Image of Seiven Seiven
    01/05/09

    In reply to Brown Can Thrash Your Packages With A 30-Yard Delivery Toss, That's What
    unless it was labeled..."T-Shirt...please deliver at all costs" fire him.


    maybe packages need to be labeled with the distance they can be thrown from.


    ( )2 feet ok
    ( )5 feet ok
    ( )10 feet ok
    ( )deliverable by college dropout quarterbacks ok
    ( )dropping from UPS airplane ok

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    Image of Darascon Darascon
    01/05/09

    @Seiven: You have that already:
    Standard 5-7 day
    express 2-3 day
    priority overnite
    same day
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    Image of Seiven Seiven
    01/05/09

    @Darascon: lol I like it
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    Image of bobpal bobpal
    01/05/09

    In reply to Brown Can Thrash Your Packages With A 30-Yard Delivery Toss, That's What
    Why did he bother getting out of the truck?
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    Image of P3nnst8r P3nnst8r
    01/05/09

    @bobpal: He couldn't get enough centripetal acceleration on the package to nail the garage without doing that. Confined spaces + throwing = not good throw.
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    Image of RyaninCalgary RyaninCalgary
    01/05/09

    In reply to Brown Can Thrash Your Packages With A 30-Yard Delivery Toss, That's What
    Always get insurance.
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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    01/05/09

    @RyaninCalgary:


    + 1

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    Image of Monty Monty
    01/05/09

    In reply to Brown Can Thrash Your Packages With A 30-Yard Delivery Toss, That's What
    "Um, George -- the air delivery stamp was referring to the way it is sent to the warehouse, not how it is delivered to their door."
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    Image of Gibberish Gibberish
    01/05/09

    In reply to Brown Can Thrash Your Packages With A 30-Yard Delivery Toss, That's What
    I had a video of an Airborne/DHL person tossing my package. Obviously, they are now out of business.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    01/05/09

    @Gibberish:
    No, no, just the in-country deliveries are gone. They still ship internationally.
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    Image of wiggin wiggin
    01/05/09

    In reply to Brown Can Thrash Your Packages With A 30-Yard Delivery Toss, That's What
    What do you expect of an organization that mandates that their delivery people walk X steps per second and the routes are calculated to the second? Given a traffic jam, a stop for a pee or a quickie with a house marm, the guy has to catch up his schedule somehow!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    01/05/09

    @wiggin: Don't forget they plan the drivers routes to avoid left hand turns, as they waste time and gas. I'm serious.
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    Image of zcreative zcreative
    01/05/09

    In reply to Brown Can Thrash Your Packages With A 30-Yard Delivery Toss, That's What
    What nobody has ever heard of air mail?
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    01/05/09

    @zcreative:
    Yeah, but they're supposed to charge extra for that...
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    Image of BernadetteBelus BernadetteBelus
    01/05/09

    In reply to Brown Can Thrash Your Packages With A 30-Yard Delivery Toss, That's What
    Nobody noticed that he's driving on the wrong side of the street?
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    01/05/09

    @BernadetteBelus:
    Yes, and he clearly heads back into the right lane after he gets back into the truck. But if he can't even let the truck come to a complete stop before jumping out, such things are probably of little concern to him.
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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    01/05/09

    In reply to Brown Can Thrash Your Packages With A 30-Yard Delivery Toss, That's What
    Every video I've seen from a surveillance camera is high enough resolution to see something happen but too low-fi to actually ID the perp. Wonder if they ever help much.
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    Image of lilaliendog lilaliendog
    01/05/09

    @The Lab: I hear you on that one, and it isn't so much the video quality I think it's the optics cus people still can't tell the difference between 480p and 1080p
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    Image of Shooting a monkey is now a hate crime Shooting a monkey is now a hate crime
    01/05/09

    @lilaliendog: Oooorrrr, you could simply take the tracking number and see which driver was assigned to deliver the package. Doesn't take Batman to figure this one out.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    01/05/09

    @DeadhousepIants: The driver was too smart and crossed out the # on the package. Millions of dollars in tracking power foiled by a $.50 Sharpie.
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    Image of im.thatoneguy im.thatoneguy
    01/05/09

    @IH8M_SteveDave:
    Ok forget tracking number.


    "Whose route included 5555 55th street today? Fired."

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    Image of Themindtaker Themindtaker
    01/05/09

    @The Lab: Don't you watch TV or movies? Just press the "enhance" button!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    01/05/09

    @im.thatoneguy: And he would have gotten away with it to, if it wasn't for you nosey kids, and a pup named Scoooby Doooo.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    01/05/09

    @The Lab:
    All you need in this instance is proof that the only package that was delivered to that address was delivered by some guy who is clearly planning to try out for the company softball team.


    @IH8M_SteveDave:
    It's the only package delivered to that address, the recipient probably got a confirmation e-mail with the tracking number, and both UPS and the company of origin can always chase that number down if they need to. The main reason for tracking numbers on the packages is to make it easier for them to figure out where something went wrong with a delivery, to give you proof that no it did _not_ get delivered as promised, to make sure that only the authorized recipient can find out delivery status, and to allow you to find out what the status is without having to spend two hours listening to musak on the phone. They tell you that they can't pull up info without the tracking number for two reasons. One is that _anyone_ can call up and say they don't have the number handy (including your neighbor whose remaining gift list is bigger than his bank account), and the other is that it's a huge waste of time to do so just to tell someone that their t-shirt is still in transit. If they have a very specific reason, you better believe they can pull that info up without a tracking number. I think this qualifies.


    @Themindtaker:
    No, no, you have to wave your hands over the "enhance" button. Actually _touching_ the computer in some manner is sooooo 2007.

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    Image of bimplebean bimplebean
    01/05/09

    @IH8M_SteveDave: That's "Meddling kids."
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    01/05/09

    @bimplebean: I know. Like usual, I noticed right after I hit submit. Luckily they caught Old Man Rogers who was running the old beat up amusement park. Zoinks!
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    Image of Curves Curves
    01/05/09

    In reply to Brown Can Thrash Your Packages With A 30-Yard Delivery Toss, That's What
    He has an arm as bad as my paperboy. I found missing papers on my roof before.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    01/05/09

    @Curves: Should have given him your old NES and a copy of Paperboy.
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    01/05/09

    @Necroposting_SteveDave: or at least paid him his TWO DOLLARS!
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    Image of HagarMenelaus HagarMenelaus
    01/05/09

    In reply to Brown Can Thrash Your Packages With A 30-Yard Delivery Toss, That's What
    He won't lose his job though--- he's a union employee.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    01/05/09

    @HagarMenelaus:
    Good unions will explain to unsuitable individuals that they don't belong in that line of work. I knew guy who got fired from a Kroger shipping facility for lousy attendance, and he used to gripe that the union did jack to help him out. Funny thing is, it only took him a couple years to get fired for pretty much the same thing from his next non-union job.


    And considering how this video has made it into public view, that's a huge strike against him that should make it a lot easier for them to fire him, especially if he's got a lot of marks against him on record.

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