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… and you can use it to gain illegal entry into people’s homes!

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Please see this…

http://www.urbanvancouver.com/node/edit/1097

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Note that UPS trucks are custom designs, too (and are reportedly forcefully scrapped at the end of their life, rather than sold used). I suspect the trucks also have subtle design elements that make them more effective tools (reliability/usability/etc).

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The shirt in the post below has the same great hidden collar stays. It’s got many other handy features as well. Great shirt.

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/000358.php

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A friend of mine also had picked up a UPS uniform. He shared a great tale of riding the Chicago metro with a friend, while carrying a package of his full of clothing.

As they stood there in the somewhat crowded train, the friend asked him somewhat loudly “What’s in the box?”

He replied “Don’t know. Should I open it?”

THe friend replied “Sure.”

So he began to tear into the package, as all eyes around him were horrified at the sight of what seemed to be a UPS man tearing into someone’s package.

Of course, no UPS man would deliver a package by metro, but the uniform itself is a powerful signal to most people.

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I was talking to our UPS guy and it appears some guys bought UPS uniforms on Ebay and went to a jewelry shop in downtown San Francisco. They knocked on the side door and the clerk asked where’s our regular guy? They said he’s out sick and the clerk opened the door and the guys promptly robbed the place.

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lies!
all lies!

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Fed-X Steel-toed sneakers are highly
prized on the secondary market, not
for their costume party value, but
for pure utility.

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ooh darren, you look very fetching in that shirt! rawr

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I work for UPS, so all these boinboing posts are driving me crazy lately.

1) Technically it’s against company policy for an employee to eBay their browns. This time last year I heard some stuff around the facility that corporate was trying to track down people who were eBaying their uniforms.

2) UPS package cars are either retired from road service and used as ground support equipment at air facilities, or are scrapped. They’re not resold to the public. Part of brand-imaging.

3) Package car drivers are to exit their car on their left foot. And it’s not for efficiency, it’s because someone somewhere down the line thought that people would notice that and it’s to present a uniformity across the company.

4) Package car drivers have to check their rear-video, both mirrors and their guages every twelve seconds.

5) You can slide into driving sooner than 5 years. But you would be equivalent to a substitute teacher and then you would get the absolute worst assignments.

6) It’ll take 6 more years to fully phase out the old logo.

7) That’s 6 things about UPS you probably could have lived your whole lives without knowing.

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8) If you work in a jewelry store and a guy in a UPS uniform drives up in a Plymouth, don’t open the side door.

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Brown Does Shirts Right

Blogger Darren Barefoot recently visited a thrift store. One of his purchases, a UPS driver’s shirt, turned out to have all sorts of well-conceived design elements — a built-in stay in the collar, for instance, and a special section in…

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