I know UPS has a few different modes of employment. Some guys supposedly lease their vans, and are kinda self-employed. I'm not sure.
I see my UPS driver still delivering packages at midnight.
I have never had much of a problem with UPS. I just hope they arn't taking advantage of their employees.
I have thought about making a better, smarter, bigger mailbox. A mailbox that would be more secure. I don't want to give away details, but would what do you guys think?
Say if you could buy a mailbox that would scan your mail, and alert you you through an email? A larger mailbox you could lock remotely after recept of a important delivery. Or, is it a bad idea?
I've never had a problem with shipping insurance, or a company replacing an item that was stolen. I have never had a problem with stolen mail, but it's a problem in certain areas. I'm just throwing it out there, is it a bad idea.
Mansions here with people who run some kind of home finance business getting dozens of cheques a day and gigantic amounts of legal docs have special boxes that lock once you close the lid, so they leave the lid open and once closed it's self locking. Can't remember who makes them.
Combo lock you can securely change remotely would be good for airbnb rentals or self service po boxes, like German packstations.
Like this? http://www.steelmailbox.com/html/dvault.html
> Say if you could buy a mailbox that would scan your mail, and alert you you through an email? A larger mailbox you could lock remotely after recept of a important delivery.
All that technology-stuff seems like extra complexity for little value. Why lock it remotely when you could design it with a one-way door and regular key lock and have it locked all the time? What use are the email notifications/scans of the outside of the items if you can't do anything until you're at home anyway? There might be a small amount of benefit to being notified if the mailbox has items in it to retrieve, but I'm not sure if it's enough to justify the cost and complexity of the feature.
Don't feel too bad for them. Drivers are the most desired position. When I worked there guys were waiting 10-15 years to make it to a driver.
They bid on routes, based on seniority. Some bid on late routes (i.e. boxes where the last pickup is 7:30pm, etc.) on purpose as anything over 8 hours was time-and-a-half. Back around '00 they started at $50k for drivers, so it adds up.