How does UPS work?

[BucsMAN3K]

So I've been tracking a long awaited package of computer parts, and the latest tracking says it has arrived in my city. Tomorrow, however, UPS does not distribute packages.

Is it possible, though, that I could pick the package up from wherever it is stored Saturday? And does anyone know if they store the packages at local UPS stores like Fedex, or do they have a huge Indiana Jones type warehouse?

 

[FoBoT]

if it has never been attempted delivery, then i think you have to wait until monday

 

[coolred]

Yeah they have to attempt delivery once before you can pick it up

 

[BucsMAN3K]

That sucks, I was willing to help them out.

 

[mwtgg]

Call them up, and they'll drop kick it right over.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: BucsMAN3K
That sucks, I was willing to help them out.

Well, it's not that they wouldn't mind your help, they just want to follow their own procedures/policies so to watch their own asses.

Someone, somewhere will definitely try to scam UPS and things could get messy if they didn't have procedures to follow.

 

[Injury]

The packages literally go from being delivered on a truck to being put on another truck.

 

[JDrake]

Originally posted by: Injury
The packages literally go from being delivered on a truck to being put on another truck.

holy crap

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: JDrake

Originally posted by: Injury
The packages literally go from being delivered on a truck to being put on another truck.

holy crap

Yep, there are a team of 2 or 3 people working on each incoming truck putting the packages on a conveyor. The conveyer passes by a group of people who sort by the big letter on the label who put them on different conveyors based on the letter, then another 2 or 3 people at the end of the conveyer putting them on the outgoing trucks.

The people sorting them are expected to sort about 40 packages a minute.

 

[BucsMAN3K]

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: JDrake

Originally posted by: Injury
The packages literally go from being delivered on a truck to being put on another truck.

holy crap

Yep, there are a team of 2 or 3 people working on each incoming truck putting the packages on a conveyor. The conveyer passes by a group of people who sort by the big letter on the label who put them on different conveyors based on the letter, then another 2 or 3 people at the end of the conveyer putting them on the outgoing trucks.

The people sorting them are expected to sort about 40 packages a minute.

Most importantly they're union workers...so I'm waiting 'till Monday. Don't think I wouldn't have tried a Mission Impossible style breaking and entering to retrieve my parcel early though.