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Doing Time at UPS
Driving a truck for UPS may soon replace community service as the punishment of choice for many criminal driving convictions. Judges across the country have begun seeing the benefit of sentencing troubled motorists to 5 years at UPS instead of
3 years probation and 6 months of community service. "It's a win-win situation, it satisfies the need for punishment and the offenders get trained to drive safely," said Jack Hammer, spokesperson for United Parcel Service.
 While the program is still in it's early stages, results are already evident. One repeat offender who drove 3 years at UPS said that he learned the rules of the road. "I'm never going back," he said, "I'd rather let my girlfriend drive than risk going back to UPS. It's a hell hole."
"I used to take driving for granted", says Rex Easley, another offender who has worked at UPS for 2 years now. "I rolled through stops signs, I parked on the wrong side of the street, I figured no one was watching. Then I went to UPS and now I feel someone is watching all the time. I pulled a five year sentence, it feels like a lifetime."
While life on the inside can be brutal at times, the lessons these lawbreakers learn are good ones. "You work hard and you learn to do your job, nobody is going to do it for you. There's no help," grinned Hammer with a glint of masochism. "It looks like torture, but it's not. It's tough love."
Tough love in the workplace is a somewhat controversial concept, but it seems to be working at UPS. The UPS culture is rooted in tough love techinques and UPS used tough love on it's own employees long before the idea gained popular support. "We've always believed that pain produces results," Hammer explained, "We like to pile on the work, idle hands are the Devil's workshop. Add a big dose of humiliation and and an occasional threat and you've got the secret to our success."
The Road to Retirement
All of us are dreaming about retirement. But very few of us know any details about what hoops we will have to jump through when the time finally comes. I know someone who plans to retire next August, and he has agreed to share with us each month the steps of setting up his retirement.
Let's join him now as he prepares for the first big step, filling out the forms.
All UPS employees in the Central States Pension Plan who worked one hour into 2008 automatically became participants in the new UPS/IBT Full-Time Employee Pension Plan. So, at 9:30 am on Jan. 2, I called my BA and asked how I begin the application to retire this year. He said I needed to call UPS at 1-800-643-4442 and request the forms. At lunch that day I made the call.
UPS was very nice on the phone and said I needed to make my request in writing to Atlanta and include my name, employee id, current address and expected date of retirement. I mailed off the information the next day.
It took about 2 weeks to get a letter back. The short form that I received is not the form to apply for retirement benefits, it's the form to apply for that form or for an estimate of my pension payments. You can only apply for your retirement if you are less than 90 days from retiring. They can process your claim for benefits in 30 days. They will return your estimate in 30 to 45 days.
About a week after I got the form in the mail, I got a phone call from UPS Retirement. Of course I wasn't home, I was at work. But when I called them back a very helpful lady told me she had been assigned my case and with a little additional information she would send me my estimate of benefits. She said the estimate would be based on a termination date of Sept.6. I said wait a minute, I've been trying not to get terminated for 30 years and now you're talking about my date of termination, can't we call
it my date of retirement?? She said they refer to as my date of termination.
Now keep in mind that your pension years and your UPS years are not the same. I will have 30 years with UPS on Aug. 28, but it takes 40 weeks or 1801 hours (which ever comes first) in a calendar year to get a pension year. So for 2008, estimating 190 hours a month, by Sept. 6 will I have 29.9 pension years and that is what they will base my estimate on. If you had a later anniversary date, after say Oct. 1, you would most likely have 30 penision years when you celebrated your 30th UPS anniversary. But if your annivesary date was June 1 and you got your 30 UPS years then and retired,
you would probably only get a 29.5 year pension.
 These estimates are for full time benefits only. If you have part-time years, your part time pension benefits not come from this plan.
But your years figure in to your total picture. For example. if you have 6 years part time and 19 years full time, you are eligible for a 25 and out pension. But your benefit will be split between your full time (19/25) years (at the full time rate) and your part time (6/25) years (at the part time rate) and you will get two checks. One from the new plan and one from the UPS part timers pension plan. If you are expecting $2500 a month at 25 years, remember that that amount may be less if you have part time years or if you are under the age of 57 when you begin to draw your pension.
The full time years pay the full amount only if you begin to draw your pension at 57 years of age or older. Younger than 57 will pay $500 a month less. If you want to know what your part time years will pay, ask your HR dept for the phone number and call them and get an estimate, just as you want to do for your full time years. Always get your information in writing.
So, next month I should be able to share with you what is contained in the estimate of pension benefits. In the meantime, I'm thinking of buying a countdown clock and putting it in my package car. I want to know exactly how many days I have left.
Watering a Customer's Tree
Here is a funny blog entry concerning a UPS driver doing his business in someones front yard. Read on and I think you'll agree that while the original story is entertaining, but the comments added by other bloggers are even better.
A UPS driver came to my girlfriend's house to deliver a package. She had just gotten up, so she waited for him to walk back to his truck before she went outside to get the package. As he started walking back, she came to the front door, but did not go outside. As the driver was walking back, he assumed that no one was home since no one came to the door when he rang the doorbell. He stopped...looked around for a second...went to the nearest and only big tree in the front yard...unzipped his pants and proceeded to urinate on the tree. The house is on top of a hill, so hiding behind the tree would not have done him any good. I wish she had the guts walked out on him while he was doing his business...
And the comments:
 He had better been holding his key ring with his pinky.
When ya gotta go, ya gotta go.
The important thing is safety. Did he exit / enter the vehicle on the passenger side? Did he keep his back straight and use his legs to lift any heavy objects?
Did he have 3 points of contact when exiting the package car steps ? Must have been a rookie ! On our package day as a new hire, my driver had all the good clean rest rooms mapped out.
You mean no one has tried to suggest yet that when he unzipped, he then had 3 points in contact with the ground?
Was he wearing a reflective yellow vest? Was he holding it with two hands?
Which package was she more interested in?
Gives new meaning to "What can Brown do for you?"...
If he had been a DHL driver he would have done a number two, on the package, then sat it on the porch and lit it on fire, then rang the doorbell
Time management studies suggest that he had 6 minutes for #1 and 7 minutes for #2. Can you confirm the minutes involved, if over the limit I will file a greivance on your GF's behalf.
Bagging Packages
Drivers were getting terminated at an unbelievalbe rate last month and the main reasons were bagging packages and failure to work as directed. Both stem from some call the "perfect storm", too much work, too many hours and
the company insistance that you run misloads. When these three things come together, drivers find themselves working 10 to 11 hours a day, hating it, and trying to find ways to get off at a more repectable time.
Unfortunately, one of these ways is to bag packages. Bagging a package means to not sheet it or run and hide it in your pickups and bring it back. Some drivers will put it in a smalls bag and throw it on the belt at night, thus the term "bagging a package". UPS operates on the somewhat erroneous notion that if that if your EDD shows you had 300 packages in your car today and
you only sheet 297, then you bagged the other 3. That may not be true because some of those may have been misloaded into another car. But regardless, they are using this theory to justify going throught the cars at night or on the weekend looking for packages that did not get sheeted or attempted and were just brought back. If they find one in your car, there's chance you are
going to get fired for it.
The other problem is failure to work as directed. This usually stems from a driver finding a misload that will cost him a lot time to run. When he notifies the center that he has it, they almost always tell him to run it. Some drivers have taken it upon themselves to decide they don't want to and say no. That's not a good idea. Those drivers are getting fired too.
To make matter worse, some drivers believe that the Union will automatically get them their job back after a week or so and a week off doesn't sound too bad if you're working over 50 hours a week and wouldn't mind a little time off. This is foolish thinking. Take my advice, work as directed, don't bag packages and use get with your steward to address problems with hours. There are
smarter ways to get weather the perfect storm than to get fired.
Things That Don't Make Sense
There are some things about UPS that just don't make sense. I try not to let these things bother me, but since PAS has made my job so easy, I have nothing else to do but drive around all day thinking about some of these things.
One thing
that has really got me to thinking lately is the way UPS attacks the 9.5 issue. A driver with a 9.5 problem usually has a variety of things that need to be addressed such as start time, load quality, looping, add/cuts and performance. But the company only addresses one of these; performance. We recently had every manager and the division manager out on
car on the same day with drivers who had complained about their hours.
 When drivers show an improvement in their numbers on the day of an OJS ride, UPS wants to write those numbers on a stone tablet and hold them up in front of the driver forever. Usually these numbers are somewhat skewed as in our case last month when the preload had been tipped off and the load quality was well above par. The drivers received no OCA's during the day, they had no meet points, they didn't have
a last minute add/cut. They weren't held in the building waiting for late air or any of the things that happen to us on a daily basis that have a negative effect on our on-road-stops-per-hour.
Many times the manager riding along will make a promise to work on the load or the looping or anything else that the driver says he is having problems with. But unfortunately that promise is not written on the stone tablet and is soon forgotten. The driver comes away feeling threatened and somewhat cheated. Management gloats about the improved numbers. I heard that one manager in our building has even been
ridiculed because he didn't get improved numbers. Makes you wonder what the real purpose of the ride was.
When management does performance rides like this, they always seem to pick a pretty good day when there are a lot of stops but not a lot of bulk. I've brought this up to management and they always act innocent saying they can't predict a good day to ride. I wonder is that's true. With all their technology, they should be able to predict what's coming down the pike. If they can't, then either the technology isn't as
good as they say it is or they aren't smart enough to use it to their advantage. I don't that either of those statements are true. That only leaves one other reason they would say they can't predict the volume.
UPS Guy Works Through Morning Snow
Telluride UPS Driver Moving On
Telluride, Colo. --
It was about 7 degrees Kelvin yesterday, so cold the bronze statues were shivering, and any human possessing all his brain cells would have been inside by the fire with a cappuccino and a book about South Pacific islands.
But Tom Eide was out lugging boxes on main street, in the snow, without a hat.
Eide’s a UPS driver, and he’s delivered to Telluride, south of main street, for 14 years. He says he doesn’t notice the cold, and he humps boxes with a smile, usually with something funny to say to his clients.
But Friday is his last day here. And a Telluride fixture will move on.
“I’ve loved it,” he said, his breath forming cumulus clouds. “It’s a tough job, but there’s beautiful scenery, and I’ve really enjoyed getting to know people on a personal level. And for those two reasons I hate to go.”
He’s taking the Norwood and Nucla route. Sure, those towns are farther away from his home in Montrose, but there are half as many deliveries, and very few buildings taller than one story.
In other words: more driving, less lifting.
Because four years after Eide, now 53, started working for UPS, he had his first neck surgery. He’s had four neck surgeries since, and one shoulder surgery.
Through all the surgeries, Eide kept delivering.
If he can make it four more years, he can retire with health benefits for himself and his wife. And then he can do something fun and cerebral, like work at bookstore or a golf shop or, as he jokes, “Help my wife find a few more jobs.”
 (His wife Susan runs a preschool in Montrose.)
When his daughters were younger, he told them he was a boxologist, and they thought that was about the coolest thing ever. His daughter Jessica used to help him out during the Christmas rush, when the box flow felt sisyphean.
“I used to make her carry all the heavy packages,” he jokes. “That convinced her completely to become an accountant.”
He put both his daughters through college, and they both live in Denver now.
Eide has a nine or 10 hour workday, although he usually steals half an hour to have a cup of coffee at Between the Covers bookstore, what he calls the best coffee in town. You can find him there many afternoons.
“We call that his office back there,” joked Alice Martin, who works at the bookstore.
Sometimes, when the UPS headquarters can’t find him, they call the bookstore and ask for Tom.
“He’s always got a big smile and a cheerful hello, even though we know he’s in terrible pain,” Martin says. “Being a UPS driver is probably the worst thing for him.”
At a local hotel, he lugs a huge stack of sheets and towels.
“I’ll bet this weighs about 800 pounds,” Eide jokes. It was probably closer to 120 pounds, but still. “The secret is to lift with your back.”
And still he smiles. He usually gets smiles back, like a brown-suited Santa delivering toys. Telluride, so remote and so affluent, orders a lot of stuff. And so Eide is, in some ways, the town’s traveling Target, sometimes the best or only way to get socks or a Nintendo or a Dora the Explorer lunch box.
He greets the hotel’s front desk clerk with a hello, and hears the gossip from the bars last night.
“Whatcha got for me?” the clerk asks him.
“Boxes,” he says. “Some great boxes.” His standard joke.
He meets his friend George in the elevator.
“I’ll bet all this snow makes it easy on deliveries,” George says.
Eide shrugs.
“My motto is: bring it on,” Eide says.
But some days, after big loads, he spreads out on the floor of his house to let his back rest.
It was all hugs and handshakes Thursday, and will likely be on Friday, his last day.
“I can’t believe you’re leaving,” says the woman at the shipping store.
“I’ll miss you,” says the woman at the eyeglass store, hugging him.
They were far from the only ones.
Telluride The Daily Planet
A major surgery is a small price to pay for a career at UPS.
Anonymous
The Big Idea
Now that things are beginning to slow down and return to normal, the brainiacs at UPS that think up big ideas are working overtime. Their latest brainstorm involves how to determine who gets the day off when a center has extra people and someone gets to go home.
 The way it has worked in the past is that if someone needs the day off, they are the first to get to go home if the center has an extra guy. Either someone has indicated in advance that they need a day off or the management team simply goes around and asks who wants the day off. It usually doesn't take them very long to find someone.
The contract does not address the question of who gets to go home, it protects the rights of the person who wants to work. They cannot send a seniority person home is a less senior person is working anywhere in the building. And the building is a big place. We have 8 centers dispatching over 400 routes a day. So the brainiacs have decided that the contractual way to
decide who gets to go home would be to send home the lowest seniority driver in the building every time there is an extra driver. But unfortunately, that involves cooridation between the centers. If we have an extra guy today, we have to call all the centers and see if they are putting a less senior person on the street and if so, our guy goes over there and runs that route that day. If they can't free up a supe, then he has to run it blind.
Contractually, if they are laying off the lowest senior driver, the company has to call him at home an hour before his start time and tell him not to come in. If they don't and he shows up for work, then they owe him 6 hours for showing up.
What do you think the chances are that the company can cooridnate this effort every day between 8 centers. Slim and none. The brainiacs need to abandon this big idea and come up with a new gimmick to annoy us. Maybe they could cap us at 8 hours a day, oh darn.
UPS Guy Gets an Answering Machine
Know Your Contract
Your contract is divided into 2 parts. The first section is the National Master Agreement and the second part is the Central Region Supplement. Everyone should have a copy of the contract and be familiar with it. Here is an example of what it says concerning vacation selection.
Article 16, ......Central States Supplement
Vacations
"Seventeen percent (17%) of the employees in a center will be scheduled off each week during the months of May, June, July and August."
See page 192 of your Contract Book to see how this will be applied in your center based on the number of employees on your seniority list.
Read Article 16 to learn all the details of vacation selection. Vacations are selected during the month of February. This is the last year for Feb. vacation selection, henceforth, all vacations will be selected during the month of November.
There is language concerning how the weeks are selected in areas where lower seniority employees have a problem getting summer vacations due to a large number of high seniority employees, what happens if vacations are not selected during
the February selection period or if you find yourself on worker's comp. when your vacation arrives. It also explains the rules surrounding working through your vacation. If you have questions about vacation selection, read Article 16, then talk to your steward and the two of you can approach management together.
"For the remaining months, the Employer will schedule vacation in relation to expected volume with a minimum of ten percent (10%) per center. (Note: that's a minimum, not a maximum)
UPS in the News
 Charleston, W.Va -- Chuck and Linda Richardson danced their way into a news conference this morning to the 50 Cent Song "In the Club" that says, "go shorty, it's your birthday." On his 48th birthday Wednesday Chuck Richardson went to bed telling his wife he was going to be a millionaire. No truer words have ever been spoken. On Thursday Linda got the call that Chuck indeed won a "Second Chance Drawing" with the West Virginia State Lottery Headquarters!
Chuck is a UPS driver from Logan County. He'll head back to work Monday but in the meantime, he's just soaking it all in. He and Linda gladly accepted their $685,000 check (a million dollars after taxes) Friday morning.
Traverse City, MI -- The icy roads are at least partly to blame for an accident that sent a UPS truck into the side of a train in Clare County. It happened near Lake Tuesday afternoon. Deputies say the UPS driver tried to stop on the ice and slid into a moving train. The impact sent him spinning into the ditch; the train crew didn't even know it happened. The driver suffered only minor injuries.
Havelock, NC -- A United Parcel Service truck rolled into a ditch and hit a tree along U.S. 70 Saturday morning, slightly injuring the driver.
According to the Havelock Police Department, the driver of the truck, whose name was not available, did manage to get out of the cab and was transported to Craven Regional Medical Center in New Bern with non-life threatening injuries. According to police, the tandem tractor trailer truck was headed east to the UPS center in Havelock at about 4:30 a.m. Saturday when it ran off the right side of the highway and struck a tree, flipping the trailers into the roadside ditch and mangling the cab.
Pontiac, MI -- An 89-year-old Davisburg man is in critical condition after he collided with a UPS semi truck Wednesday afternoon.
Some time before 2:40 p.m., the man, driving a 2003 Ford Taurus, crossed M-59 at Mill Street when he was struck by the tractor trailer heading east on M-59. When police officers arrived on the scene, the man's vehicle was against a building at the intersection. The driver of the UPS truck was not injured.
 Everett, MA -- Chad M. LaFrance, 30, was driving a tractor-trailer loaded with 9,400 gallons of gasoline when his truck overturned at the Sweetser traffic circle Wednesday morning, setting off an inferno that consumed 21 cars and two apartment buildings - but without injuring or killing anyone.
As residents coped with the accident's aftermath, a relative of the truck driver confirmed yesterday that in 1997, LaFrance admitted to an FBI agent that he scrawled a bomb threat on the outside of a package handled by a UPS facility in Chelmsford where he once worked. According to federal court records, LaFrance scrawled in red on the package, "Tick. Tick.Tick. The time is running out. UPS Sucks. Danger. Explosive illegal bombs enclosed. Watch handling."
LaFrance, who now lives in Dover, N.H., was sentenced to six months probation for his actions, according to US District Court records.
Lakewood, CA -- A wheelchair-bound person was dragged approximately one block by an 18-wheel big rig in Lakewood before the driver realized there was a collision, authorities said.
The accident was reported at 6:08 p.m. at Del Amo and Lakewood boulevards at the Lakewood Center, according to a Los Angeles County Fire Department dispatcher.
A witness said that the person, a paraplegic in a wheelchair, was struck and dragged under the rear wheels of a United Parcel Service freight truck about a block.
Monroe County, MI -- Five Ohio residents were hurt late Friday night and I-75 traffic was snarled into the wee hours Saturday when a UPS delivery van rear-ended a passenger car that had stopped on the freeway near Luna Pier.
Michigan State Police were dispatched to check on the report of a PT Cruiser stopped in the southbound lanes of I-75 near Luna Pier Rd. Before they could arrive at the scene, it was hit by the UPS van, reported to be traveling at about 60 mph. The van driver said he saw no lights or flashers before the collision,
 Lafayette, LA -- After the busiest shipping day of the year, the Federal Aviation Administration is investigating accident at the Lafayette Regional Airport.
Officials said a UPS plane was preparing to take off, but, before leaving the run-way, clipped an American Eagle plane. The FAA is calling it "minor."
It happened around 10:45 Monday night when the UPS Boeing 757's wing hit an American Eagle turbo-prop plane.
UPS officials said the incident was so minor, the two man crew inside the jet didn't even feel the bump when they hit the other plane.
There was no one on board the AE flight. The rudder and horizontal stabilizer of the aircraft were damaged.
Livingston, MI -- A Tyrone Township woman on Monday rolled over her Lexus SUV from her downhill driveway into an adjacent pond as a UPS delivery truck made its way up the driveway.
The woman had her two children in tow.
No injuries were reported in the accident, which occurred at the woman's White Lake Road home at 1:45 p.m. The woman slammed on her brakes once the UPS truck came into her line of vision, attempted to reach the side of the driveway to avoid the truck and rolled over into the pond, Livingston County Sheriff Bob Bezotte said.
Bezotte said the UPS driver — who did not collide with the SUV — rescued the woman and her children from the pond.
UPS is a Negligent and Irresponsible Company!
Back in August, our studio sent a package to one of our customers in Fremont, CA. The package was insured for $950 and contained a 30x40 enlargement picture that was mounted and laminated and also framed. We sent it to them using UPS Ground. The package was delivered in promised time, but when the couple received the picture at their door, they noticed that the package had a huge break/dent in it all the way down pass the packaging and on to the enlargement itself!
The damage to the package was so severe that the original 2 layers of 1.5" foam layers were crumbled like cookies and more than half of the packaging material has already been lost by the time the package was delivered!
Luckly the frame that the enlargement was in was unharmed and was in perfect condition. They immediately told the UPS driver that they wanted to file a claim with UPS, but he refused to accept their claim because they are not the Sender. NO SH*T they're not the sender, but they are the people paying for this precious wedding enlargement portrait and why would they want a big whole in their wedding portrait!?!
2 Phone calls later from us, the sender, UPS has agreed to accept this claim and has sent a driver to pickup the damaged package to get it checked out and possibly issue a check to cover the damage that was done.
When the driver went to pick up the damaged package, he insisted on taking the frame that was undamaged and shipping it in the originally damaged packaging that CAN NOT provide any protection for the frame in transit! We had no choice, it was either all or nothing the driver told them, so they reluctantly let the driver take the package.
2 weeks later, we receive a beated up box with a frame in it that didn't even resemble the original frame that we originally shipped. I asked our driver what happens now, he told us that if they returned the packaging to you it must mean that they've approved of the claim and a check should follow shortly.
We thought, great news! So we didn't call anyone at UPS and just waited for our claims check to come.
Today, I called UPS and asked for the status of this claim and gave them the tracking number of this package. The person on the phone asked me for my fax number and told me that she was going to fax me some paperwork so that I can get it resolved. I thought that was strange, I thought it was already taken care of....? I get the fax and it says that it was not packaged properly and that the claim has been denied.
WTF?
They will not pay for the damage done to the picture. But more unbelievably, they will not take responsibility for the complete destruction that they have done to the frame, which was fine!
So the latest is that NO ONE from 1-800-PICK-UPS can help me anymore since it has already been denied. And one of my LOCAL rep's will contact me before the end of the day Monday.
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Eye Candy in Brown Shorts
For a few years now, I've had the lovely opportunity of meeting some interesting delivery guys. Remember that it's pretty tough to get up to this house. My driveway is steep and long, and you can not see the road from up here on the mountain. If you don't know that there is enough room to turn around near the house, you will back up your vehicle all the way UP the driveway so that you can easily get DOWN the driveway. You do NOT want to have to go DOWN backwards.
Many guys with trucks have made their way up here. And for delivery guys, I certainly like the Fed Ex guy. The Fed Ex guy has always been so pleasant - he comes up the front porch to get a signature and off he goes. And he's cute. Four extra points!
As for the UPS guy, I need to whine. He is a short, disgruntled, angry man who grunts and bitches, and looks like he has smoked too many cigarettes in his seemingly 30 year career in the brown outfit. He would bring me the packages with nary a smile, and for about 2 years now he just stopped driving up to the house. Yeah, you read that CORRECTLY. And I have to DRIVE my garbage down to the road; DRIVE to go get my mail. It's THAT bad.
So Mr. Brown would leave the package at the bottom of my driveway. And it wouldn't matter the weather or the season. OR the PACKAGE! I've ordered some pretty expensive items over the years, and I was lucky to not have anything stolen. I eventually made it a habit to check the tracking on any package coming here and once I see online that it was "delivered" I would DRIVE down to the road to find it next to the bushes near the road. You'd think that complaining to the company would make a difference, but it has done nothing. I understand that the driveway is daunting, but take a swig and suck it up, buttercup!
Fast forward to today. I was down in the garage, tending to some garbage items when I heard a truck. It didn't even dawn on me at first that it could be a truck coming up my driveway. I looked around my garage to the front yard, and there it was. That brown truck. I knew that my hubby ordered something that was to be delivered today, but I figured that I was going out a couple of times, and that if it was at the bottom of the driveway, I'd find it.
But no. The brown truck was backing up my driveway to the house. And there he was.
A new UPS guy.
It was like Christmas morning. This guy was young, Italian, and had the biggest brown eyes I've ever seen. I quickly apologized about the driveway, and he was grateful to know that he could just drive up in the future without worrying about any turn around space.
Now I've enjoyed having a high school senior "boy" tend to my lawn. I've enjoyed all the talk about getting a pool boy whenever we get a pool. And please know that I love my hubby to bits, and would never stray. BUT THIS, ladies, is gonna make my DAYS.
And I'll be ordering things online every DAY.
MamaLee
Got Shoes?
 I got a new pair of work shoes last month online and I think you ought to check this out.
They are made for drivers like us, they are even called "Pro courier". They meet the UPS standard for a sturdy work shoe, but they look and feel more like a running shoe. And they have safety toes, for those of us who
occasionally drop a box on our foot. I wish I could say they were made in the USA, but of course they aren't, but they are sold by a small locally owned business in Wisconsin. They are called TheBootPro and they ship UPS. And they are offering a 25% discount off the suggested retail price good through February 2008. "Here is a coupon code for UPS drivers worth 25% OFF any boot order: DEN7D.
It expires 02/28/08." Just click on the UPS truck on TheBootPro home page.
I tried them in the snow because I'm always concerned
about traction when I get a new pair of shoes. I don't want to be ice skating in the back of the truck. They had great traction, I could leap in and out of the package car with confidence ( not really, I don't leap anymore). But honestly, you should check them out, they come in 2 styles, the oxford and the high top.
And, best of all, you can have the UPS logo put on the side!! (Or Teamster)
How cool is that!!!!
Oxford ProCourier
6" Hiker Style ProCourier
Enhanced Grip Sole
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