My Driver Won't Back Up

[burrheadd]

I was always first or second on the backing report.

It's tough to be the best (worst?).

I was also
Wore it like a badge of honor

 

[Over 70]

Who has a 500 foot driveway that doesn't at least have enough room for a 3 point turn? I mean if the grass is that nice....

 

[Analbumcover]

I've noticed our sups are a lot less harsh about backing up on country routes.

 

[Rick Ross]

If I were leaving laptops at the end of a 500' driveway I doubt a backing report would bother me much. That's pretty dumb!

 

[MendozaJ]

You got your laptop and your grass was spared...

There's no pleasing you, is there.

 

[over9five]

You got your laptop and your grass was spared...

There's no pleasing you, is there.

We even helped you out by signing your name for you. Jeez, what more do you want?!?

 

[Ms.PacMan]

We don't even know if the driver could tell it was a laptop - some companies care enough to throw another box and packing material around them or the left at location is completely out of sight.

This is exactly why the cost of shipping is only getting more and more expensive - fussy customers who live in the deep woods expecting someone to walk a city block to their poorly designed house.

Corporations are already leaving China for even poorer countries to exploit them and keep costs down.

I can't wait until I never have to deal with or lay eyes on someone like this customer again in my life.

 

[Ms.PacMan]

We even helped you out by signing your name for you. Jeez, what more do you want?!?

You don't know that so just stop. I delivered a laptop yesterday that didn't require a sig.

 

[ethelmae10416]

My bad.

I've been gone a few years.

Sounds like my kinda 1st place

 

[wayfair]

I was always first or second on the backing report.

I tell my customers the same thing.... "someone has got to be my first stop and someone has to be the last"

sadly, the guy who is last doesn't understand

 

[Indecisi0n]

Tell the driver to back really really fast for 15 ft then shift into neutral turn off the car and coast to your house.

 

[AlliSeeisBrown]

*Has decent relationship with service provider for about a decade*
Emails random person because packages aren't close enough to the door.

Nice.

 

[Dragon]

This right here is your answer OP. Fill in doesn't care about tearing up your grass or being unsafe. He or she just wants to get done ASAP, so they can be dispatched to come help drivers like myself and your regular driver.

Carpboy, to many drivers back all the way up the driveway and either hit the house or hit the car/truck parked in the drive way and yes this happens alot...now you know why we do not want any one backing down your long drive way. Our driver has 4 mirrors and a camera to use while backing and still manages to hit something. He will not be that cool driver you know once he hits something, no its not an accident..it's a crash. We have to be harsh about it because it is only a matter of time before its not an object.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Carpboy, to many drivers back all the way up the driveway and either hit the house or hit the car/truck parked in the drive way and yes this happens alot...now you know why we do not want any one backing down your long drive way. Our driver has 4 mirrors and a camera to use while backing and still manages to hit something. He will not be that cool driver you know once he hits something, no its not an accident..it's a crash. We have to be harsh about it because it is only a matter of time before its not an object.

It's too* many

Hope that helps.

 

[burrheadd]

We don't even know if the driver could tell it was a laptop - some companies care enough to throw another box and packing material around them or the left at location is completely out of sight.

This is exactly why the cost of shipping is only getting more and more expensive - fussy customers who live in the deep woods expecting someone to walk a city block to their poorly designed house.

Corporations are already leaving China for even poorer countries to exploit them and keep costs down.

I can't wait until I never have to deal with or lay eyes on someone like this customer again in my life.

You sound stressed I can help with that

 

[Brownslave688]

Regular guy was totally cool - I asked him to not turn in the grass and he honored my wishes. But now I have stuff, valuable stuff, sitting in a bag by the road.

So is this UPS official policy? I would not be surprised if it were, to be honest.

Thanks.

Another acceptable solution if $18 a ton for gravel is too much. Is to put a lockbox at the end of your drive.

 

[35years]

If he has a 500 ft driveway without a proper turn around, and is picky about his grass, and complains about ruts, then he is a pain in the rear.

Driver is doing him a favor by leaving it, especially a laptop. The driver is taking a chance that he might have to pay if it is stolen. The customer will find himself picking up all of his packages at UPS if he pushes it any farther. And he insinuates the driver is doing wrong by him....Wow, just wow!

 

[dookie stain]

I'd back 499' 6" you think I give a damn about some report?

 

[Catatonic]

Nuts, that sucks. I understand the position you are all in.

Thanks all.

Over and out.