Monthly Archives: July 2012

UPS

Hooky Bob

In my day up, delivering up in the mountains with icy, snow packed roads, the kids called this “Hooky Bobbing”. (Yes, they all knew my name was Bob).

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Bring Jobs Home Act fails. Remember in November.

These are the U.S. Senators who voted today against a bill that would eliminate tax breaks for sending U.S. jobs overseas:

Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), John Barrasso (R-WY), Roy Blunt (R-MO), John Boozman (R-AR), Richard Burr (R-NC), Saxby <Chambliss (R-GA), Dan Coats (R-IN), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Thad Cochran (R-MS), Bob Corker (R-TN), John Cornyn (R-TX), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Jim DeMint (R-SC), Mike Enzi (R-WY), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), John Hoeven (R-ND), Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), James Inhofe (R-OK), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Mike Johanns (R-NE), Ron Johnson (R-WI), John Kyl (R-AZ), Mike Lee (R-UT), Richard Lugar (R-IN), John McCain (R-AZ), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rand Paul (R-KY), Rob Portman (R-OH), James Risch (R-ID), Pat Roberts (R-KS), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Richard Shelby (R-AL), John Thune (R-SD), Pat Toomey (R-PA), David Vitter (R-LA), Roger Wicker (R-MS).


The bill failed in the Senate. Taxpayers will continue to subsidize corporations that move American jobs to China.

Remember in November.



Posted by Teamster Power at 4:38 PM 7/19/12
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UPS

What Brown could do in 1926

The United Parcel Service has always been known for innovations in package handling, including its delivery equipment.


The company acquired its first delivery car, a Model T Ford, in 1913. In 1926, the company introduced a new van for parcel delivery that bears a striking resemblance to thepresent fleet of delivery vehicles.


In 1922, the United Parcel Service acquired a company in Los Angeles with an innovative practice at the time known as “common carrier” service, making it one of the few companies at the time to offer such a service.


The service incorporated many of the features and operating principles of the company’s retail store delivery service with features not then offered by many other private carriers, or even the parcel post.


According to the company’s official website, this common carrier service included automatic daily pickup calls, acceptance of checks made out to the shipper in payment of C.O.D.s, additional delivery attempts, automatic return of undeliverables, and streamlined documentation with weekly billing.


“Perhaps the most key feature was that UPS was able to provide its extensive service at rates comparable to those of parcel post,” the website says.


In March, 1926, CCJ captured a photo of the latest UPS truck put in service in Los Angeles for its common carrier service. The van was built by the Crown Motor Carriage Co. of Los Angeles.

CCJ Digital Magazine