Category Archives: UPS
The Guard Shack
We have guard shacks at the Denver buildings, but they aren’t manned quite like this.
Always a Target
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).
When UPS had Style
At Least the Mirrors are Tucked In
Hoffa
What Brown could do in 1926
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.
The United Parcel Service has always been known for innovations in package handling, including its delivery equipment.
CCJ Digital Magazine
Not Good
The truck loaded with packages sheered off an ornamental light pole and plowed through a row of flower pots. It went into the plate-glass window of the museum’s lobby about 8:30 p.m. The window, which is punctured at its base, is a spider web of cracks.
WASHINGTON – A UPS truck jumped a curb and broke through a concrete barrier, crashing into the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on the National Mall Monday night.
Cooling Off
A UPS truck traveling eastbound on NE 96th Street in the Village of Miami Shores struck a tree and continued breaking through a pedestrian barrier, ultimately coming to rest in the bay. The UPS driver made it to shore and was not transported to the hospital.
( WALTER MICHOT, MIAMI HERALD / June 27, 2012 )