Nosy UPS Seasonal Helper

[Veer_G]

I just got a shipment from PSA, and the young seasonal worker just couldn't help himself. He had to impress me by noting the contents of the box, because, of course, he probably asked the driver what ORM-D meant.

If I complain, he gets canned, and then maybe I have to hose down one of my thresholds. Or, he's truly ghetto-fabulous, and I wind up having to clean up aisle no. 3 anyway.

So lovely it is out here in the seclusion of the country.

 

[Mike Casselton]

I guess that proves ups doesn't train their drivers or delivery personnel in handling (potentially) hazardous material.

 

[The DFC]

Fed Gold Match 308?

 

[Strykervet]

I guess that proves ups doesn't train their drivers or delivery personnel in handling (potentially) hazardous material.

Oh hell no, should've seen the look on this one asshole's face when I told him shot putting 4500 .50 BMG primers over the porch could result in him and his truck taking the shortcut off the property. No, the big orange explosive hazard sticker wasn't enough. It came with 48lbs. of gunpowder too but it was primers he should've handled better. This was the same asshole that I reamed once already for leaving an "assault rifle" (an FAL) on the porch. And I'm the one to get saddled with the bullshit laws.

I called 'em and pointed out the only difference between a truck bomb and a package is how he handled it, but it was lost on them too. When they finally fuck around and blow something up, I'm sure I'll be the one to get stuck with another goddamn law with more hoops to jump through. You know, for safety, the singular goal of government.

On the other hand, I've no shit seen a guy hack his way into a pallet of 120mm mortar shells and fuzes with a goddamn fire axe. I tried hiding behind a five ton but I knew I was fucked if he set one off. I'm normally the one to get a kick out of fucking with the boom, but not a fan of mishandling it at all.

Count yourself lucky explosive shit wasn't shot putted to your front door or left in the rain by the side of the road.

 

[Mike Casselton]

When I worked production manager at an ammunition company the machines would occasionally smash a primer.
If we got lucky, the machine was down for 30 minutes to clean and check timing.
Usually the smashed primer would ignite the feeder tube and primers in the flip/ feed motor.
The sound was a cross between a shotgun blast and firecrackers.
It would scare the puddin clean out of you when it went off.
The ceiling above the machines looked like it had been shot with buck shot.

I learned a whole new respect for those tiny primers the first time it happened.

 

[Badfinger]

Years ago UPS delivered an upper I ordered from J&T out of Kentucky. He handed the box to my wife who was standing in the driveway talking with a very liberal school teacher who lived next door and said "what's your husband doing building a machine gun in the basement?" Both women were shocked and my wife said "NO" I'm sure his is not." Then the jerk say's "Oh yeah, well that company only makes machine gun parts!" Not true, what an ass.

 

[MarinePMI]

On the other hand, I've no shit seen a guy hack his way into a pallet of 120mm mortar shells and fuzes with a goddamn fire axe. I tried hiding behind a five ton but I knew I was fucked if he set one off. I'm normally the one to get a kick out of fucking with the boom, but not a fan of mishandling it at all.

Count yourself lucky explosive shit wasn't shot putted to your front door or left in the rain by the side of the road.

LOL! I can relate to that. Some EOD guys were tossing WP arty rounds into a demo pit in Northern Iraq. One WP round hit another round already stacked in the pit, and broke open. Everyone ran for cover pretty quick after that, as several TONS of arty rounds started cooking off...sometimes you just can't fix stupid.

As to the local UPS guy here; he's pretty cool and always makes sure to swing back by the house at the end of his shift, if I wasn't home to sign for some ORDM package. He asked once, why the package was so heavy, and I mentioned it was 1,000rds of prototype ammunition for testing. He asked how I was lucky enough to land that gig, and a short discussion ensued. Now, he waves as he drives by, and always looks out for any packages that are heading my way, ensuring they are tucked away behind things on the porch if I'm not home and a signature isn't required. A real nice guy, that takes his job seriously and with a degree of professionalism that just isn't that common these days.

 

[Stooxie]

I usually think of two things in such situations.

1. If they had more brains they wouldn't be UPS drivers/mail carriers/etc.
2. Whatever, he's trying to make small talk and "connect," probably a little nervous energy as well. Sometimes those are good opportunities to show people that gun owners are good people.

I live in a thoroughly suburban neighborhood, I can only imagine what my mail dude and delivery folks are thinking. Almost every day something gun related shows up (mostly catalogs and junk mail). Plenty of ORM-D boxes, too!

-Stooxie

 

[powdahound76]

My old mail guy was from Geno’s neck of the woods and a gread guy if not a little goofy....... also had a big beard. ?

Anyways, saw me loading some rifle cases one day and asked where I was gojng shooting. Said he wanted a place beyond 100 yds too.
After that, all packages from anywhere firearms related were either delivered later when someone was home or taken through the gate to the back porch.
He always got a nice Christmas gift.

Should have see him deliver a box from LRI...... he was almost as happy as me!

A few weeks go UPS left some cases of 9mm on my front step....... fortunately I have old lady neighbors. Nothing escapes them. Plus they are quiet, polite, and old fashioned.

 

[supercorndogs]

I took ammo to ship at UPS once. The kid behind the counter said they did not ship ammo. I showed him the ORM-D sticker on the box, I had printed from their web sight, and told him he needed to look it up because i had just been on their web sight checking their rules, and they most certainly did ship ammo. He told me i would have to come back when the supervisor got their. I told him nope, and he needed to either get his phone out of his pocket and look it up, or take my word for it, but I wasn't going to make another trip because he didn't know how to do his own job. He took the package while acting like petulant little bitch. Then my wife chewed his ass too. LOL.

 

[308220]

LOL! I can relate to that. Some EOD guys were tossing WP arty rounds into a demo pit in Northern Iraq. One WP round hit another round already stacked in the pit, and broke open. Everyone ran for cover pretty quick after that, as several TONS of arty rounds started cooking off...sometimes you just can't fix stupid.

As to the local UPS guy here; he's pretty cool and always makes sure to swing back by the house at the end of his shift, if I wasn't home to sign for some ORDM package. He asked once, why the package was so heavy, and I mentioned it was 1,000rds of prototype ammunition for testing. He asked how I was lucky enough to land that gig, and a short discussion ensued. Now, he waves as he drives by, and always looks out for any packages that are heading my way, ensuring they are tucked away behind things on the porch if I'm not home and a signature isn't required. A real nice guy, that takes his job seriously and with a degree of professionalism that just isn't that common these days.

That is how my UPS driver is. Hes also a shooter and we always bullshit about guns and ammo when he stops. Cool guy.

 

[Longshot231]

I met the UPS driver at the truck one day as I knew he was bringing a case of ammunition.

When he commented that the package was very heavy, I replied, "Yep, I got a good deal on ball bearings."

The next time around, I think I'll order some transmission gears and a fly-wheel.

 

[dang472]

Our former UPS guy used my wife’s name on a box to find and “friend” her on Facebook. While sitting in our driveway. I really didn’t want her to have to make the call, but what the fuck? Could’ve been innocent, might be a guy who socially awkward or really is into being a good UPS driver. Or really wants to be in my wife and knows when I’m gone. She called UPS and requested a different driver. Not sure if the guy got fired or sent to another route.

 

[Blue Sky Country]

Oh hell no, should've seen the look on this one asshole's face when I told him shot putting 4500 .50 BMG primers over the porch could result in him and his truck taking the shortcut off the property. No, the big orange explosive hazard sticker wasn't enough. It came with 48lbs. of gunpowder too but it was primers he should've handled better. This was the same asshole that I reamed once already for leaving an "assault rifle" (an FAL) on the porch. And I'm the one to get saddled with the bullshit laws.

I called 'em and pointed out the only difference between a truck bomb and a package is how he handled it, but it was lost on them too. When they finally fuck around and blow something up, I'm sure I'll be the one to get stuck with another goddamn law with more hoops to jump through. You know, for safety, the singular goal of government.

On the other hand, I've no shit seen a guy hack his way into a pallet of 120mm mortar shells and fuzes with a goddamn fire axe. I tried hiding behind a five ton but I knew I was fucked if he set one off. I'm normally the one to get a kick out of fucking with the boom, but not a fan of mishandling it at all.

Count yourself lucky explosive shit wasn't shot putted to your front door or left in the rain by the side of the road.

What about the guys that would power drill through old Civil War shells that they dug up? I wonder what was going through their heads when they decided to put a high speed bit through metal casing, except the red hot fragments of shrapnel that followed in the next few seconds of course?

In the last 15 years, at least 4 or 5 people took themselves out in that fashion.

Like one of my coworkers would say: "Common sense does not grow in everybody's garden".