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Originally Posted by marvjung
I'm inclined to agree.
I worked for UPS as well as a college student and they allowed only 4 to 5 hour shifts. After my first day, I understood why; I worked as a truck loader and I would take all the boxes off the conveyor belts and pack them into the trucks. We were trained to get the boxes in, as many as possible, into the trucks - whether we punched, kicked, forced the boxes into the container. Imagine Tetris, but you're allowed to use brute force, even when the pieces don't quite fit.
I agree completely that this is a more subtle scam based upon taking money from the shipping company itself. If the package had a very slight 4 or 5 inch slit in it, upon packing into a truck, using the methodolgy that I was trained in to pack a truck, that 4 or 5 inch slit could, and would have, easily expanded wide enough to make it look as if something fell out after a few poundings.
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Those were the days huh. I worked in that warehouse for 5 years. Definitely a young mans game but where else could you go to college and work part time for $12-15 bucks an hour in the late 80's. Those trucks were brutal BTW. I got out of those and up at a Pick-off spot in the rafters as soon as I possibly could. Still a hard job but not quite as backbreaking.
I remember they also had a program, if they recruited you to the management team as a part-time supervisor they would also pay for your college education. Pretty sweet if you were ambitious and didn't mind being a whipping boy for the full-time management.
I'm starting to wonder if the guy under-insured the package on purpose, because normally packages of that type of value get handed directly to a clerk by the driver as soon as he gets back to the building. The package is then looked over and re-taped or even re-packaged into an additional box if it looks weak.
I wonder if he insured it for under 5K to get it on the trucks un-noticed. He would have to have some knowledge of how UPS worked to decide on that method but it's not out of the realm of possibility.