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Old 12-05-2017, 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by ghrocketman
They always deliver on my front door step of my condo in the middle of the day
That said, had a cousin that worked for UPS while in college 30yrs ago.
In the warehouse they used to deliberately play 'football' with packages labeled "fragile".
They also used to deliberately "bootprint" packages.
NEEDLESS TO SAY, I found this practice HILARIOUS to all packages not addressed to ME.
PranX like that are almost as good as a high-stinkkk toilet prank.
That happened with USPS parcels here last year, at the hands (and feet) of the "temporary holiday help." (Ten or more years ago, my order of Jet-X supplies--including ruined fuel pellets--arrived soaking wet [along with everyone else's mail in that shipment] after the parcels got snowed on while sitting on carts out on the ramp at the Anchorage airport; the snow melted when the carts were brought indoors.) I can't, however, find any humor in other people's parcels getting kicked around, because someone paid for them--perhaps as gifts for others. (The FedEx "smooshed package" ads and American Tourister luggage commercials with the gorilla *are* funny, but partly because the situations depicted in them *didn't* happen to actual people's parcels or suitcases.)
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