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You might not want to ship with UPS Anymore [VIDEO] watch!

break.com — Were any of your presents broken on delivery this year? You probably had this expert as your delivery man.

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  • cavejelly, on 12/27/2008, -4/+466The irony is that this guy has probably been getting raises for running his route so promptly.
  • stevenr21, on 12/27/2008, -6/+370air delivery
  • ileftfark, on 12/27/2008, -8/+363It's not just UPS. Waiting for my FedEx package to arrive this past Monday, I hear a truck pull in front of the house. Not a FedEx truck, but a large yellow Penske box-truck... I go out anyway because it could still be my stuff, or maybe dude just needs directions (I live on a dead end, and people often mistakenly turn on my road and need directions). Well, turns out that it is FedEx, so I ask the guy what's up with the truck. "Oh, we just use these over the holiday season. I'm temporary help until just after Christmas". He seems like the kinda guy that 'hurt his back' at his old job and just collects most of the time, and snaps up little seasonal odd-jobs here and there. Which is probably good for the rest of us, because this man is terrible at what he does. I stood at the back of his truck, as my walkway was still icy from the the sleet the night before. The guy asks me to *help him find my box*! So I'm up in the truck, sifting through hundreds of boxes, any one of which I could've thrown on my front porch without him noticing (I didn't), while this guy is just picking up boxes, reading the label, and tossing them over his shoulder when he finds it's the wrong box, like he was looking for a sock in a pile of laundry. I pick up a box that looks like it could be mine (digital camera-sized), and proclaim "Found It!". He doesn't even verify the package, and scans the label. I hop out of the truck with what could've anyone's parcel, and the guy takes off. Luckily, Amazon packaged it pretty nicely, and the camera is fine. I could've very easily walked out with a 48" LCD TV, and the guy wouldn't even have known. Where the ***** do they find these people?
  • username7410, on 12/27/2008, -4/+322Well, that guys fired, all because he couldn't open a gate and take an extra 10 steps. Idiot.
  • grungegbunny, on 12/27/2008, -23/+333Ordering new awesome electronics from the interwebs: $350
    Picking UPS next day service: $45
    Installing a cam outside your door catching the ***** toss your package in your yard without care: Priceless!
  • googooly, on 12/27/2008, -2/+275"There is your Christmas present bitch"
  • z00k, on 12/27/2008, -2/+221When I use to work for Kodak there was one case I'll never forget... My supervisor got a call a week before Christmas from a distraught female... What happened was she ordered a Leather Bound Photo Book and when it was delivered the mail man couldn't fit it inside the box so he literally slammed it over his knee and forced it in to the mailbox. We reimbursed the customer, but... Seriously...

    Come on.
  • stereoa, on 12/27/2008, -1/+181And that was just a snippet of Chapter 1 in "10 Things I Hate About Life" by ileftfark.
  • TheTaoOfBill, on 12/27/2008, -13/+131This is kinda the expected treatment of your package. It's not just UPS. It's every shipping company. They just generally don't do it out in the open like this guy. But they do it to every package in the warehouse. They simply don't have time to be gentle with every package. They load thousands of packages a day and are expected to do so within a few hours. They are not going to be gentle. It's impossible to be gentle with that kind of time restriction.

    Frankly if you don't pack your stuff in a way that protects it from damage when it's thrown you're an idiot. Use anything you have to pad the contents of your package and shake it around to make sure there is no audible movement inside. As long as it's well padded it should be fine from anything UPS can throw at it. And if it's not well padded then that's you're own fault.
  • OnAsideNote, on 12/27/2008, -6/+110My sister clears the jams at UPS
    If you drop it from your roof and don't
    expect it to work, don't ship UPS.

    Called the drop test
  • mark076h, on 12/27/2008, -0/+81That would have been another sweet video.
  • ZenNemesis, on 12/27/2008, -9/+89What a dick.
  • NoMercy, on 12/27/2008, -1/+76my usp guy is really nice..when im not home he hides my deliveries under my door mat and doesnt even charge extra for that service.
  • inactive, on 12/27/2008, -0/+73I use to know the owner of a gaming PC company, a smaller one. They had to stop using UPS as a shipping option as NO MATTER HOW WELL they packaged the PC it would arrive at the customers house as if they had been kicked around like a football or something.
  • mediaphile, on 12/27/2008, -2/+74Not being gentle is one thing. Two-hand throw-passing a box 10+ feet is something altogether different.
  • Super6, on 12/27/2008, -0/+71My dad works for USPS and he always tells me to do a "toss test" on anything I ship. I can say with great confidence that, even though not everyone will throw the package at its destination, every shipping company throws packages around at sorting centers. They get tossed in 70lb bags and someone's package as to be on bottom, and then said bags get thrown in carts. It's all about speed, not about being gentle.
  • jerbaker, on 12/27/2008, -0/+71"Where the ***** do they find these people?"

    In the bin of people willing to take a job that only lasts a month and pays only $10 per hour.
  • Moklomi, on 12/27/2008, -13/+81I worked for UPS and you cant enter gates your supposed to go no further then 5-15ft on a premises as for apartments unless you specifically request that your package be left in the office or at your door its getting left at the foot of the stairs. Look Delivering is hard and can be very difficult in many places (long driveways that wind up hills or Stairways that are 40 stories tall) and making all stops on a time limit during the holidays can be imposable. What this guy did however is wrong he should have just left it at the gate. But if you see your UPS man/woman try and thank them for not punting your package across your yard or just leaving it outside in the wild to fend for itself. The work these people do is hard and a lot of you have no idea.
  • Destroytoy, on 12/27/2008, -3/+67I've been railing against UPS since January when the listed my package as delivered, and it didn't ARRIVE for another three days. Idiots.
  • zjbird, on 12/27/2008, -6/+66In Florida, you can wait for someone to accidentally take a step onto your property, then shoot them.
  • InTheBurbs, on 12/27/2008, -0/+59Great, grandma got those crystal glasses I sent her!
  • DeadFox1, on 12/27/2008, -1/+58I'm on digg too much.

    http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/fail-o ...
  • Maddoktor2, on 12/27/2008, -16/+72"break".com? Appropo. Very.
  • KenAer, on 12/27/2008, -3/+56Forget the carrier. That's the last dude to touch your package. The overnight transports I used to unload at night is where your package gets the real treatment. We used to just pull the walls of packages down and then double stack boxes on the conveyors where they sometimes got smashes against the doors or fell of the sides to their death 8 feet below. Oops my bad. What can ya do when your super is screaming for 5000 packages an hour?
  • benburned, on 12/27/2008, -4/+56United Package Smashers as I like to call them.
  • thechosen, on 12/27/2008, -1/+52COME ON
  • jerbaker, on 12/27/2008, -1/+45Even with a sign it's legal. At least in California trespassing doesn't legally occur until someone asks you to leave their property and you refuse.
  • gemlarin, on 12/27/2008, -11/+54They get paid to do a job, just like the rest of us. IF it is too hard for them, then it is time to find a new line of work. There is no excuse for this kind of on the job behavior.
  • jdmcadam, on 12/27/2008, -1/+42I have no idea what this sentence means.
  • swordedge, on 12/27/2008, -2/+43I always assume some gorilla is going to handle the package.
  • kungfool101, on 12/27/2008, -0/+40I think it means that if you expect your shipment would survive a drop from your roof, UPS is not going to do anything worse, and your shipment will probably survive shipping with UPS. However, if you expect your shipment to break from a drop from your roof, UPS may deal similar amounts of damage to your package, so you should avoid shipping with them.
  • Darkhacker, on 12/27/2008, -0/+39I worked for UPS too. I had the same job of clearing the jams. What people don't realize is that it's not the throwing that damages packages. It's crushing. We have tiny conveyor belts and so many packages that come through that clearing jams is a full time job. The damage from them getting crushed is far worse than anything dropping it would do.

    When I first joined UPS, I knew that people always complained about mishandled packages, so I wanted to be the good guy that always took care of packages. The fact is that you can't. It's not that people are throwing your packages. Most handle them with care (video being the exception), it's the conveyor belts that crush them. And I don't mean small jams. I had a hook I used as a fulcrum and I had to use all my strength and weight to dislodge some of the jams.
  • Averness, on 12/27/2008, -2/+41Clears the jams? WTF are you trying to say?
  • Jerky1312, on 12/27/2008, -0/+38I've seen UPS leave packages at the door of of people's apartments, where anyone can come and grab it. Usually they'll ask a next door neighbor if they are willing to take the package for them and leave a note on the door, but there are times they wont even do this.
  • jerkychew, on 12/27/2008, -2/+39I worked at UPS. It's a super union shop. He won't get fired. One dude I knew of was caught sleeping in his truck and fired - The union got him his job back with retro pay for the time he had off.

    You should see what happens to some of the packages that never make it out of the shipping locations... I'm constantly amazed that things I order via UPS make it at all.
  • wakingrufus, on 12/27/2008, -0/+37he means clearing the jams that occur on conveyor belts when too many packages are squeezed into the system at once.
  • teknotant, on 12/27/2008, -0/+33I worked for UPS loading trucks and I would never ship anything through UPS without insurance.
  • theOster, on 12/27/2008, -3/+36also, UPS = Union, Fed-Ex = Non-Union
  • shadeOfGrey, on 12/27/2008, -1/+34Yes, unless they have a no trespassing sign on it.
  • koolmoecraig, on 12/27/2008, -4/+34Man, those Mastercard quips never get old, do they people?

  • geoboy, on 12/27/2008, -1/+30She unclogs the tubes? I know a former Alaskan senator that could use her help...
  • Sonixunite, on 12/27/2008, -0/+27I think the word trespassing implies that you are not carrying a package that the property owner is expecting to receive.
  • sogr, on 12/27/2008, -3/+29They should leave those jobs for the late teens and early 20s who might not mind a job that pays 10/hr instead of close to minimum wage.
  • haentz, on 12/27/2008, -0/+25You get what you pay for. I mean... Not YOU, but FedEx...
  • bwales89, on 12/27/2008, -4/+29I work for UPS. Not a bad place, but you better have your package well packed or it can get ***** up. Conveyor belts jam up and boxes get crushed. Kinda unavoidable. That doesn't excuse a delivery guy tossing boxes, but alot of times it's no ones fault.
  • inactive, on 12/27/2008, -5/+29HDS! Got a package people!
  • tidu, on 12/27/2008, -3/+25Can't the guy in the $3600 suit get an intact package from someone who doesn't make that in three months? COME ON!
  • inactive, on 12/27/2008, -4/+26Newegg does a good job, all their packages are throw friendly. Accept for cases.
  • Darkhacker, on 12/27/2008, -0/+22@mediaphile

    It doesn't really work that way. You can only fit one conveyor belt in a truck and that's where some of the most severe jams take place. I never even left my post. I spent my entire shift clearing jams at just ONE truck. So adding more belts isn't an option since the jams usually take place after they're already sorted and are heading for the individual trucks where only one belt fits.

    Congestion is so bad that there is an operator whose only job is to start and stop belts. Jams get so bad that every few minutes you have to yell your belt's name and the operator above stops your belt so you can clear a jam. You have about thirty seconds to do so and if you can't do it, he starts the belt up again anyway. OSHA would probably throw a ***** fit since you're not supposed to be on a moving belt but sometimes that's the only way to clear jams. My manager who was training me forgot to tell me the thirty second rule when I first started working there. So when I didn't clear a jam in time, I nearly ***** myself when the belt started up again and I was still on it.
  • czeman, on 12/27/2008, -1/+22OK, so the gate was closed. It wasn't so high that he couldn't have leaned over and gently set the box down. It was light enough for him to throw it, so I doubt he would have suffered from back strain. Kudos to that homeowner for having installed a camera. That footage provided them with the evidence they would have needed to prove any damage was the fault of UPS personnel.
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