drsmooth wrote:

Phan In Phlorida wrote:UPS used to be good but I've had issues with them the past couple of years. Like when we ordered something "ship to home" from Best Buy months ago and never got it.

A relative who does contract work for UPS has been in one of their distribution hubs. Said it's like something out of a Dr Seuss book that got horribly off track

I worked with a guy who used to work in a UPS distribution center and that's pretty much how he described it. Also, you could give him any city in the US and he could tell you the zip code. It was rather amazing.

Bucky wrote:oh yeah, no doubting that. It just seems like (and backed up by McNeal's anecdote) that this was misrouted because a city had a similar name. That's the part that has me scratching my head.

We sort mail by zip code or bar code. That's what's supposed to happen anyways.

Bucky wrote:Smitty, are you USPS now??

Yes. But retirement stuff is in. Shouldn't be long.

I guess I can add American Pharaoh to "apparently-huge-news-stories-that-I-haven't-read-more-than-a-headline-about". Duggers and Ms Jenner, you've got company!

+1

You guys must be soooooooooo proud

1 wrote:I guess I can add American Pharaoh to "apparently-huge-news-stories-that-I-haven't-read-more-than-a-headline-about". Duggers and Ms Jenner, you've got company!

When I read this earlier I had no idea what American Pharaoh was. Thought it was some sort of reality show maybe.

I went hiking in Zion today and missed all the sports history and greatness. I don't know how to feel.

The Dude wrote:You guys must be soooooooooo proud

I do feel like I'm a better person, yes

702 wrote:I went hiking in Zion today and missed all the sports history and greatness. I don't know how to feel.

feel good that you went outside and accomplished something on your own instead of watching other people do something.

Slowhand wrote:Also, you could give him any city in the US and he could tell you the zip code. It was rather amazing.

hmmm...cities of any size have scores of zip codes

now, if you could rattle off a zip code & he could tell you the town/city - THAT is something pretty sweet

phatj wrote:

1 wrote:I guess I can add American Pharaoh to "apparently-huge-news-stories-that-I-haven't-read-more-than-a-headline-about". Duggers and Ms Jenner, you've got company!

When I read this earlier I had no idea what American Pharaoh was. Thought it was some sort of reality show maybe.

It's the leading contender for next year's Oscars

smitty wrote:

Bucky wrote:Smitty, are you USPS now??

Yes. But retirement stuff is in. Shouldn't be long.

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Smitty, you're a mail guy?

The best service, day in & day out, from any service professional that I've ever experienced has been that provided by one of our local postpersons. This guy should write a book on how to do customer service right. Blasts all the stereotypes to smithereens. Plus, tells the best jokes.

Do you know who I'm talking about ?

drsmooth wrote:

smitty wrote:

Bucky wrote:Smitty, are you USPS now??

Yes. But retirement stuff is in. Shouldn't be long.

,

Smitty, you're a mail guy?

The best service, day in & day out, from any service professional that I've ever experienced has been that provided by one of our local postpersons. This guy should write a book on how to do customer service right. Blasts all the stereotypes to smithereens. Plus, tells the best jokes.

Do you know who I'm talking about ?

We have more guys and gals like that than people might think.

When I lived in Germany, it took like a week to get a piece of mail from Frankfurt to Ulm. When I returned stateside, I realized how good our Postal Service was. Nowadays, priority mail parcels take two days to get from Florida to Seattle.

I was a supervisor in the place that processes parcels to Washington State, Oregon, Alaska and Idaho. It's kinda awesome to see the whole thing work.

drsmooth wrote:

Slowhand wrote:Also, you could give him any city in the US and he could tell you the zip code. It was rather amazing.

hmmm...cities of any size have scores of zip codes

now, if you could rattle off a zip code & he could tell you the town/city - THAT is something pretty sweet

It may have been vice versa, I don't remember for sure. But I do remember him saying that as part of his training they all had to memorize that stuff.

Slowhand wrote:
It may have been vice versa, I don't remember for sure. But I do remember him saying that as part of his training they all had to memorize that stuff.

yeah, I'd think a brain would start to imprint some of that stuff just from continual bombardment of city/zip pairings. I wonder if they expect staff to recognize cities/zips of places whose mail they seldom see coming/going?

1 wrote:

The Dude wrote:You guys must be soooooooooo proud

I do feel like I'm a better person, yes

+1

drsmooth wrote:

Slowhand wrote:
It may have been vice versa, I don't remember for sure. But I do remember him saying that as part of his training they all had to memorize that stuff.

yeah, I'd think a brain would start to imprint some of that stuff just from continual bombardment of city/zip pairings. I wonder if they expect staff to recognize cities/zips of places whose mail they seldom see coming/going?

something like this would explain my issue- dude sees the zipper for 'elkins, WV' and throws it in the bin with 'elk grove city, IL' because he got it muddled. But I didn't think anything happened with that kind of human interaction these days.

my package did leave elk grove and made it to charleston, WV now, so the recovery seems to have been pretty quick.

HillMd makes jeff2sf look like a BSG HOF'er.

The B1G Piece wrote:HillMd makes jeff2sf look like a BSG HOF'er.

Jeff is rolling over in his grave that you didn't start a new thread for this.