Walking out of my door the other day I ran into the UPS Delivery Man. It was 5:00 PM. He was delivering the next two books on my reading list: Play, by Stuart Brown and Who’s Got Your Back Trauma film by Keith Ferrazzi.
I asked him where his truck was parked. It clearly was not in front of my house. He laughed.
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I live on a cul-de-sac; aka a dead end street for those of us who aren’t pretentious; a narrow dead end street. UPS is now not allowing their drivers to back up more than 50 feet. My street is more than 50 feet long. No U-Turns either unless they meet a certain criteria. Yep, he must now walk the packages down the street for delivery to the seven homes.
Yikes!
“Would they really know if you backed up or made a U-Turn”, I asked.
Eight Days a Week buy Virus Apparently so. Seems that these trucks are monitored to watch every move the truck now makes. Dave, the UPS Man, shared how there are wires all over the truck and that a Real-Time Google Earth like package is used to monitor a driver’s every move. I guess no more hanky-panky or taking naps in the truck either?
I started to walk up the street with Dave. I was really curious about this. “So like I could be getting you in trouble because you’re talking to me rather than delivering packages” was my next question. He chuckled and remarked well if someone really wanted to make an issue I guess so.
Born Yesterday hd This blew my mind. But I really loved Dave’s spirit and attitude about the whole thing. You could tell some of it didn’t make a whole lot of sense, but he was just being a good UPS Soldier. Companies are always trying new things. Some work. Some don’t. Some ideas are innovative; some are not. Some increase employee morale; some throw employee morale off a bridge. Some lead to layoffs; others lead to layoffs followed by scrambling to hire people.
Now I know that the folks at UPS will say it is about driver safety, keeping rates down, being a Greener Company, blah, blah, blah. And I know that women (and some men) who lust after their package delivery man might find this nice as these men in shorts parade through neighborhoods for longer periods of time. But this really is Big Brother watching at its finest.
I’ve also got to wonder if there really is a savings here? The UPS Man used to arrive in my neighborhood about 2:30PM. Now he arrives over two hours later? I guess I also wonder, how you the reader, adapt to change when it seems to make no sense?