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No negotiations for a UPS shirt sans company logo? It seems that you both would have won that way.

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I am very impressed that there is an interested in reclaimation. It is pretty impressive to see their level of brand protection. You did the right thing, my boy.

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I know it probabaly won’t ease the pain of loss, but just in case you might want to investigate getting a tactical cop shirt. I purchased one after reading Kevin Kelly’s review (located here: http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/000358.php) and I purchased another shortly thereafter.

They’ve got all sorts of built in features you might appreciate, and they’re really built to last.

Hope it helps-

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Hmm…I’ve got a UPS shirt around somewhere too - the long-sleeved kind. Never thought about it being a liability…glad this all worked out easily.

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Things are a lot more fun when people are ornery and inconsiderate.

The story of one guy being reasonable is really far less interesting than a picturesque fight of the little guy against a huge corporation over the very clothes on his back.

But still, it was probably the nice thing to do :)

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And remember, you’ll find your next one at a thrift store. Yes, it’s just that easy.

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Brownmail! What a concept: now we can all troll thrift shops, buy up errant UPS shirts and resell them back to UPS at a tidy profit!

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My friend Sarah had a New Haven police jacket that was decommissioned (all appropriate legal marks removed) that she’d purchased at a store on Cape Cod. I was with her once when a policeman hassled her. Really, he was upset about it. He looked at it carefully, though, and even checked out the name inside, and he knew the guy had retired at some point. It wasn’t illegal, but he was pretty clear he thought it was a bad idea. It was a great pea jacket–this incredibly heavy wool. I think she stopped wearing it, but I can’t recall the resolution. You really don’t need officers mad at you, especially on such a small campus as Yale.

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I am going to ask this once, seriously. Since I started keeping track, 6 out of 8 UPS packages I have received have arrived with injuries that could only have been received via the now infamous “UPS STOMP.”

1 out of 17 FedEx packages has arrived with a small dent in its corner.

0 out of 5 DHL/Airborne Express packages have arrived damaged.

WHY DO YOUR EMPLOYEES SMASH MY PACKAGES, UPS???

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Brown Reply:
November 13th, 2009 at 7:53 am

the sorting machines do most of the crunching.

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RogerX: Who are you talking to?

Jen: You’d think so, eh?

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Just to clarify for everyone. I’m familiar with UPS’s policy on uniforms. The shirt is, in fact, company property. All UPS uniforms are assigned to each driver. The security reason is that delivery people such as UPS, FedEx, or DHL employees are typically given a greater level of access to customer premises. It’s a way of protecting the customer, protecting their brand, and keeping them from having to buy more shirts (yes, I’m not going to attempt to say it’s COMPLETELY noble ).

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UPS, DHL, FedEx, all are better than USPS… I got a package from the US Post that looked like it’d been run over with a lawnmower, and they gripped at ME for not having “proper packaging”. So, I need 12 inches of foam on all sides of any package I send with those guys? I wonder how delicately it’d be treated if i stamped “Warning, old sweaty dynamite” on the package…

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in high school i worked for an air cargo contractor with ups. i routinely observed conveyor line sorters and plane unloaders tossing packages with reckless abandon. not to excuse it, but sometimes the flow of packages is so great that the only way some people find they can keep up is by relaying small boxes by throwing them down the line. the planes do have to take off exactly on schedule. once, though, a few of my less enlightened co-workers were playing soccer with a box of live maine lobsters.

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I spent two years working the unload shift at UPS, and have good and bad stories to tell. My favorite was when someone sent a package through with “Please Kick Carefully” written on all side.

We treated that package like it had our mother’s crystal in it.

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wow, never new about the UPS issue. i had a whole UPS winter outfit in the 90’s that i got from a buddy who worked there. you say they should have bar-codes - what about RFIDs.

well done.

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Got to be impressed at how cool UPS were over this. In a world where giant corporations routinely treaten to sue individuals in the hope of scaring them into jumping through hoops, it’s nice to know that at least one company still understands the power of a polite request.

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I met a guy on match.com once, and he came to my apartment to pick me up for a date…he showed up in his UPS uniform! Maybe he was hoping the “men in uniform” thing would work for him, but I never went out with him again.

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I just started working for UPS and before receiving my ill-fitting uniform I was warned that legal action will be taken if I try to sell any piece of it and if I lose a piece of it it comes right out of my paycheck. I doubt the uniform pieces out there for sale are from the UPS employees but rather from the company that cleans and supplies them.

They are serious about getting their stuff back, but if you are going to buy one of their uniform pieces I suggest the pullover jacket it is very warm.

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