Lightest peak season ever

[AKCoverMan]

We’re privileged to be in a phenomenal pension plan out in the west… not everyone is so lucky. And I never brought up anything remotely resembling workers in 1800… I know I can go anywhere, still doesn’t mean that ups has to treat their employees like they do.. maybe it’s different up there?? Know many that work at union shops, including family and they don’t have nearly the problem that I have seen first hand here… everything can be improved on, including employee relations.

Sorry may have mixed up threads mayb that was Comrade RickyB talking about labor abuses from another century.

Of course I agree there is plenty to improve on at UPS but it’s kinda annoying to hear us compared to “slaves”.

 

[Coldworld]

Sorry may have mixed up threads mayb that was Comrade RickyB talking about labor abuses from another century.

Of course I agree there is plenty to improve on at UPS but it’s kinda annoying to hear us compared to “slaves”.

I hear you.. not at all slaves but they push people at this job and there is a high rate of injuries and accidents that I personally think Are sometimes contributed to people trying to beat the “allowances”… just my real world opinion

 

[AKCoverMan]

I think that if a house is unmarked we should legally be able to spray paint their number onto their mailbox or front door.

Lol well that might be extreme. I will however comment to customers that of course I know where they live but I do go on vacation so.....

I’ve seen parts of rural America in lower 48 where driveways all marked with similar reflective numbers posted at the road. Of course these same areas usually have every country road paved or blacktoped.. I run on a lot of dirt roads and my car is no stranger to potholes lol...

 

[Red Devil]

Lol well that might be extreme. I will however comment to customers that of course I know where they live but I do go on vacation so.....

I’ve seen parts of rural America in lower 48 where driveways all marked with similar reflective numbers posted at the road. Of course these same areas usually have every country road paved or blacktoped.. I run on a lot of dirt roads and my car is no stranger to potholes lol...

I’m in a pretty well populated area, no dirt roads on the routes I know. And still some people can’t mark their damn houses. And don’t even get me started on the apartment houses in the hood where there are six apartments and none of them are marked…

 

[AKCoverMan]

Do the native Alaskans have casinos that they are able to benefit from??

No they have gone into many businesses including real estate development, security and facilities management, all kinds of stuff. Some now hold contracts doing work all over the world. But no casinos. I suppose they could but so far they have found other businesses to pursue, and been rewarded handsome

 

[wilberforce15]

Starting pay in 1990 for part timers was $8.00 per hour. I know. I was there.

Yep. Same for 85 and 2005.

Pay has been cut drastically.

 

[Gman33909]

Starting pay in 1990 for part timers was $8.00 per hour. I know. I was there.

Was 8.50 in 2006 not much of a jump

 

[UPSER1987]

I hear you.. not at all slaves but they push people at this job and there is a high rate of injuries and accidents that I personally think Are sometimes contributed to people trying to beat the “allowances”… just my real world opinion

They push people at McDonalds too. Companies are in business to make money. We are all free to work anywhere we want - but the push will be the same but at a much lower pay rate.

 

[satellitedriver]

I think that if a house is unmarked we should legally be able to spray paint their number onto their mailbox or front door.

Mailboxes are classified as Federal property, by "legal" statute.
Owners pay for them and the Fed's control them.
First offense of defacing, or placing anything in, or on, a mailbox is a $300.00 fine.
Defacing someone's front door involves two separate charges, by local laws.

 

[AKCoverMan]

Mailboxes are classified as Federal property, by "legal" statute.
Owners pay for them and the Fed's control them.
First offense of defacing, or placing anything in, or on, a mailbox is a $300.00 fine.
Defacing someone's front door involves two separate charges, by local laws.

Yes but I mean I’ve been frustrated by enough unmarked houses to understand the sentiment lol

 

[satellitedriver]

Was 8.50 in 2006 not much of a jump

Pension pay was the same payout for 40yrs.

 

[satellitedriver]

Yes but I mean I’ve been frustrated by enough unmarked houses to understand the sentiment lol

Me too.
Swing driving sucked.
Rural route and 30 mailboxes on the main road. Turn on the side road and you come to a Y in the road and then another Y in the road and then another freakin Y for miles in a community with only one road in and out.
No one had addresses on their homes.
Many owners only used P.O. box numbers as an address.
It was just stop and ask people if they knew where someone lived.
Signature required on all packages.
Frustrated is putting it mildly.

 

[AKCoverMan]

Me too.
Swing driving sucked.
Rural route and 30 mailboxes on the main road. Turn on the side road and you come to a Y in the road and then another Y in the road and then another freakin Y for miles in a community with only one road in and out.
No one had addresses on their homes.
Many owners only used P.O. box numbers as an address.
It was just stop and ask people if they knew where someone lived.
Signature required on all packages.
Frustrated is putting it mildly.

Now due to 911 servicing everyone has a real address here.

The contract post office on my route will take packages if addressed to the physical address of the post office with the box number listed as a suite or room number.

But early on when I came out here to deliver as a cover driver it wasn’t uncommon to have this:

Me at customers unmarked house: “Hello, is this 123 W Backwater Street?”
Customer, turning and yelling over his shoulder to his wife: “Martha!! What’s our street address again?”

Before they made a street addressing system up here it wasn’t uncommon to have addr sees like
Mile 84.5 Seward Highway. There was (and still is) a lot to be said for driver route knowledge.

 

[Nolimitz]

I hear you.. not at all slaves but they push people at this job and there is a high rate of injuries and accidents that I personally think Are sometimes contributed to people trying to beat the “allowances”… just my real world opinion

wah!

 

[Red Devil]

Mailboxes are classified as Federal property, by "legal" statute.
Owners pay for them and the Fed's control them.
First offense of defacing, or placing anything in, or on, a mailbox is a $300.00 fine.
Defacing someone's front door involves two separate charges, by local laws.

Wow

You are a maroon, huh

 

[satellitedriver]

Now due to 911 servicing everyone has a real address here.

The contract post office on my route will take packages if addressed to the physical address of the post office with the box number listed as a suite or room number.

But early on when I came out here to deliver as a cover driver it wasn’t uncommon to have this:

Me at customers unmarked house: “Hello, is this 123 W Backwater Street?”
Customer, turning and yelling over his shoulder to his wife: “Martha!! What’s our street address again?”

Before they made a street addressing system up here it wasn’t uncommon to have addr sees like
Mile 84.5 Seward Highway. There was (and still is) a lot to be said for driver route knowledge.

911 addressing was a God send.
Not a joke, or exaggeration.
Every home on this road was Rt.1 Box 200 with the addendums, Box200AB, Box ABC, Box ABC1/2, Box ABD 1/4, Box ABCE 7/8,
Box ABD 7/16, ect.. .
Some had the addresses on the mail box painted with marks a lot pin, some did not.
Around a 100 homes/mobile homes on that road.
None followed numerical order, or Alphabetic order.
Same road I had to knock out an attacking German Shepard with my fists.
Saw the name Harvey on the mailbox and asked the man if Oliver H Harvey lived there.
He yelled at his wife, " Do you know a Oliver H Harvey?" She said "do you mean OH your cousin?".
He smiled at me and said I never call him Oliver and forgot his name, he lives 3 houses down the road."
People on BC call me a hillbilly.

 

[burrheadd]

I’m in a pretty well populated area, no dirt roads on the routes I know. And still some people can’t mark their damn houses. And don’t even get me started on the apartment houses in the hood where there are six apartments and none of them are marked…

Same road I had to knock out an attacking German Shepard with my fists.

And the legend grows…

 

[Coldworld]

Now due to 911 servicing everyone has a real address here.

The contract post office on my route will take packages if addressed to the physical address of the post office with the box number listed as a suite or room number.

But early on when I came out here to deliver as a cover driver it wasn’t uncommon to have this:

Me at customers unmarked house: “Hello, is this 123 W Backwater Street?”
Customer, turning and yelling over his shoulder to his wife: “Martha!! What’s our street address again?”

Before they made a street addressing system up here it wasn’t uncommon to have addr sees like
Mile 84.5 Seward Highway. There was (and still is) a lot to be said for driver route knowledge.

You have Amazon drivers in your area??

 

[Coldworld]

No they have gone into many businesses including real estate development, security and facilities management, all kinds of stuff. Some now hold contracts doing work all over the world. But no casinos. I suppose they could but so far they have found other businesses to pursue, and been rewarded handsome

Guess they leave the casinos for the lower 48….they’re a dime a dozen in the west.

 

[satellitedriver]

Wow

You are a maroon, huh

If you wish to insult me do it correctly.
Maroon is a color and it clashes with my Hazel eyes.
Specifically, those who have an IQ between 0 and 25 are idiots; IQs between 26 and 50 are considered imbeciles; and those who have an IQ between 51 and 70 are considered morons. These terms were popular in psychology as associated with intelligence on an IQ test.
The three IQ tests I have taken score me at 140.
What's yours?
Hope it is larger than your belt size.
WOW, huh.