This happened to me yesterday:
Had a delivery for a one chair hair salon. Note on the door said "gone to the doctor's----be back around 3". She is a regular customer and we have a good customer/driver relationship.
Would you have:
A. Placed the package behind the big flower pot by the door and signed your name.
B. Left a delivery notice.
I chose A.
Or C. Follow the methods. Try an alternate delivery point or re attempt.
Or leave your number on the info notice and get them to meet you if you want to get rid of it so bad.
Signing your name makes you liable for theft if it occurred if someone steals it, and she tracks it seeing you signed for it, guess what? She will call in a concern and you're done. Doesn't matter how "good " a customer, when their stuff goes missing and you signed for it, they'll want your ass.
I think you flaunt stories like this because you think it makes you look like such a great employee. It doesn't. It makes you look like a liability that eventually UPS and your management team will get tired of having to explain your total disregard for the correct way to do the job.
Someone bigger than your center manager will get tired of seeing your name attached to dishonest shady concerns.
Then you won't have to wait to retire, they'll do it for you. And if I was your union rep, I'd let that fight go