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23 Dec
Postal Service Sends Empty Truck to Chicago
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 at 9:19 am | 32 views
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Me like!
Anyone still wondering how come the PO is $3billion in the red???
Class dismissed!
The driver should’ve loaded up with returnable soda cans…ala Newman and Kramer….he coulda cleaned up.
Some rules(such as stupid ones)are made to be broken.
Merry Christmas All.
@MB: ROTFLMAO!!!
300 miles to deliver a 28 cent postcard and they offered to charge me $54.00 yesterday for two days service to Colorado to get the box there by Christmas and they didn’t even know what I was mailing? Because my kids were going to be out of town for Christmas anyway I opted for the least expensive rate which was $12.57. Quite the salesman I had, I bet he thought I was cheap but they did make money instead of lose it on my package…..at least I think they did.
I wonder if this trucker had to go to the effort of backing his big rig into one of those delivery ramps, shoots or whatever they call them for a post card and did he off load it himself?
Actually, this isn’t that unusual. Ten years ago I drove a regional route for a postal contrator.(An aside, the post office does NOT deliver any of it’s own mail between cities; it’s all done by contractors.) The trucks had to continue to the next stop on the route, whether they had twenty carts of mail, one cart of mail, or no carts. Often, the Kansas City to Omaha segment of the route on Saturday night would be nearly empty. And, every now and then, a monkey wrench would be thrown into the system via weather, accidents or simple mistakes like this one, and then you’d have to adjust. This was nothing more than that. You think this doesn’t happen with UPS? They have an entire division whose only job is to pick up the oopsies and get them back into the system as quickly as possible. This sounds more like someone trying to get his 15 minutes of fame. Believe me, I’m no fan of the USPS, but they are a big business, and all big business have their oopsies.
Oh, and most likely he did have to back into the dock, and break the seal for the dock super, and then unload the postcard. Yeah, we never liked that part of the empty trucks, either. Still had to stop at the dock and prove it was empty.
But then, look at all the stories of the morons with mail piled up in their garage. CYA, folks, CYA.
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