Give your package to any UPS driver making deliveries?

[13Gigatons]

I have a Prepaid label and don't want to drive 12 miles to UPS place. Can I just flag down the UPS truck when he comes down my street?

 

[Nik]

Yes you can.

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
I have a Prepaid label and don't want to drive 12 miles to UPS place. Can I just flag down the UPS truck when he comes down my street?

You can try, but I will put money on him not stopping.

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: Nik
Yes you can.

^

 

[KLin]

Schedule a pickup

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
I have a Prepaid label and don't want to drive 12 miles to UPS place. Can I just flag down the UPS truck when he comes down my street?

I doubt it. He's the deliveryman and I'm pretty sure it's not his job so you're basically just asking a random guy to run your errand for you.

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: gorcorps

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
I have a Prepaid label and don't want to drive 12 miles to UPS place. Can I just flag down the UPS truck when he comes down my street?

I doubt it. He's the deliveryman and I'm pretty sure it's not his job so you're basically just asking a random guy to run your errand for you.

If they're already stopped, you can hand them a box as long as the box has a valid UPS shipping label on it. He'll scan it and take it. Unless it's a scheduled daily delivery route, they're required to take it (scheduled daily delivery routes have a morning drop-off-only and an afternoon drop-off / pickup where pickup is only allowed at the afternoon or evening route. I used to manage my old company's UPS account). If he's just driving by, like was said before, don't hold your breath on them stopping for some waving loonie on the side of the road

 

[Crono]

Don't those trucks have mail slots? Or is that FedEx?

 

[Farang]

I got arrested when I tried this

 

[13Gigatons]

The truck stops at about 5 or 6 houses per day when they come driving down my street. My neighbor across the street always seems to have something being delivered.

BTW: I tried to schedule a pickup but there was an extra fee for that.

 

[13Gigatons]

Originally posted by: Farang
I got arrested when I tried this

Say what?

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons

Originally posted by: Farang
I got arrested when I tried this

Say what?

Eww, I just got it.

 

[13Gigatons]

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons

Originally posted by: Farang
I got arrested when I tried this

Say what?

Eww, I just got it.

It was probably a very small package in his case.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: KLin
https://wwwapps.ups.com/pickup/schedule">Schedule a pickup</a>

This. I asked a driver that was making a delivery to my home if he could take a pre-printed labled package and he ask me if I had pre-scheduled it. I told him no. He said that he would have to call in and ask before taking it and it was a YMMV depending on what dispatch thought that he could carry/deliver. He called and they ask for the tracking number and took it, but it was a YMMV situation.

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
The truck stops at about 5 or 6 houses per day when they come driving down my street. My neighbor across the street always seems to have something being delivered.

BTW: I tried to schedule a pickup but there was an extra fee for that.

Just catch the driver when he stops. Don't make him wait or anything, just have it all ready to go. Be like "It's all ready to go, have a nice day!" and hand him the box. Or put it on the driver's seat when he's out of his truck making the delivery.

Edit: oh, and of course there's a fee for scheduling a delivery. UPS is a company in the business of making money

 

[amicold]

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
I have a Prepaid label and don't want to drive 12 miles to UPS place. Can I just flag down the UPS truck when he comes down my street?

You can or at least should. The delivery trucks load up packages from small businesses at the end of their routes anyways.

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: amicold

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
I have a Prepaid label and don't want to drive 12 miles to UPS place. Can I just flag down the UPS truck when he comes down my street?

You can or at least should. The delivery trucks load up packages from small businesses at the end of their routes anyways.

Only the late afternoon / evening routes do. Morning delivery trucks are not supposed to accept outgoing shipments.

 

[rudeguy]

Sounds like Nik has been spending some time with Savoyboy. Got something you want to tell us Nik????

 

[Old Hippie]

Can I just flag down the UPS truck when he comes down my street?

Depends on how much you tipped him at Christmas.

I'm sure mine would.