Santa Tracker for the Great Brown Truck

[Mtneer]

It's nerdy but fun. If you're signed up for UPS My Choice, they send you an email for incoming packages and it includes a link for "Follow My Delivery." You can get live updates on where the truck is with your package. Like a kid waiting for Santa, you can watch the truck get closer and closer...faucets for the bathroom remodel so not quite as exciting as a new toy.

USPS is pretty good with their email updates on when a package is out for delivery and when it was dropped off. This is very important for me since they don't come to the house and our box is a couple miles away. Sucks when companies use SmartPost so they trade off from FedEx to USPS for final delivery.

I don't get updates from FedEx but thought I signed up for it (need to investigate). Less important since they deliver to the door.

[00tec]

The only one I get notifications from is FedEx

[theGinsue]

It's nerdy but fun. If you're signed up for UPS My Choice, they send you an email for incoming packages and it includes a link for "Follow My Delivery." You can get live updates on where the truck is with your package. Like a kid waiting for Santa, you can watch the truck get closer and closer...faucets for the bathroom remodel so not quite as exciting as a new toy.

USPS is pretty good with their email updates on when a package is out for delivery and when it was dropped off. This is very important for me since they don't come to the house and our box is a couple miles away. Sucks when companies use SmartPost so they trade off from FedEx to USPS for final delivery.

I don't get updates from FedEx but thought I signed up for it (need to investigate). Less important since they deliver to the door.

I hate using the "Follow My Delivery" feature - but do it every time.

In a past life I must have offended UPS. Every time I'm awaiting a delivery, I watch the truck on the map & I see the truck pass my subdivision street (about 6 houses down) 2 separate times and even watch (and saw it in person) the truck coming down my street then turn away from my home at the intersection (I'm on a corner lot) -- each time the truck LEAVES my subdivision, only to return to tease me a couple of hours later. According to the "Follow My Delivery" app, the truck I'm watching avoid my home is the one my package(s) is on. Very frustrating.

[ray1970]

I just order so much stuff from so many different places that I couldn?t possibly keep up with tracking everything so I just don?t bother.

[Gman]

I get notifications from FedEx. The closest tracker I've seen is from Amazon where they update you and let you know how many stops until your house. They also give you map where you follow the truck to your house.

[ChickNorris]

I just order so much stuff from so many different places that I couldn?t possibly keep up with tracking everything so I just don?t bother.

Its like Christmas everyday @ Ray's house.


Explains the midgets.

[ray1970]

Yep. Elves.

[Great-Kazoo]

only time those trackers work is about 30 -40 minutes after i signed for the package.


Your Package was Delivered


Yeah thanks. good thing i was coming down the road as he stopped in front of the house.

[StagLefty]

only time those trackers work is about 30 -40 minutes after i signed for the package.


Your Package was Delivered


Yeah thanks. good thing i was coming down the road as he stopped in front of the house.

If you knew how many times I say "no shit" to an Alexa notification after the fact [ROFL2]

[Double00]

As a UPS driver this scares the living s%!t out of me!

[ChickNorris]

As a UPS driver this scares the living s%!t out of me!

I have assumptions but could you expand anyway?

[Double00]

Don't like it when random people come up to me while I'm eating my lunch and ask for their Iphone. Makes my spidy sense go off. As I live on my route I don't like people tracking me to my house.

[FoxtArt]

I'm going to hazard a guess that there's some people that aren't watching the Santra tracker, they'll be out there hunting that fat bearded santa bastard down because they want their PS5 YESTERDAY.

Which to a driver, is probably going to look like someone raging out all over the road.

ETA: Just saw the reply, the house thing is creepy side effect. Major fail on UPS. Too many possibilities for abuse vs the actual benefit it provides.

[Double00]

As I deliver the same neighborhood everyday its not much of a problem. Plenty of people get stupid over phones and meds. I do have a couple of crazy's though. Just send to will call.

[ChickNorris]

Don't like it when random people come up to me while I'm eating my lunch and ask for their Iphone. Makes my spidy sense go off. As I live on my route I don't like people tracking me to my house.

Oh s*$t, that's far worse than I imagined; being publicly tracked to my residence. Has anyone ever approached you there?

Tangential related, I worked for UPS a long, long time ago. Started as a seasonal worker & then stayed on. My routes included Inverness & the Kiowa area but this was before that level tracking was available. A simple DIAD by comparison to now (first gen maybe?). Today's tech might have even been helpful at the time as Kiowa & Elizabeth were still considered rural. I was given a truck full of packages, sent out on my own & after only one week as a 'helper' on another route in your area. I had a lady who might have bought everything Speigel catalog ever offered at the time as I went to her house near daily. She made coffee for me, had it ready & kept the dogs inside until after I left. My route had grown so much with housing developments that I was delivering by what fell out of the truck when I opened the door, sorters did their best though to fill the aisle with one subdivision so I could at least get in after the first hour or two. I was eventually given a helper the following year & we came up with a jingle on a particularly awful day, on the way back to the hub in Commerce City, during Christmas week in a blizzard. To the tune of Jingle Bells:

Dashing through the snow, in a rental Ryder truck ~
Down the hill we go, we can't stop oh F ***
Not equiped with chains, because UPS is cheap~
My DIAD's down, my toes are cold & I need some sleep~

Oh jingle...

I stopped working there later that year. Good money for me at the time, paid off several student loans but I didn't find any other reward working for the company.

[Double00]

Never had anybody come to my house. Plenty of people will come up to me and ask if I have their delivery. My standard answer is "I don't know who you are". Its amazing how people think just because it a UPS truck you have their pkg.

[Irving]

Why/how could anyone follow you to your house? Are you delivering out of your personal vehicle?

[Double00]

If i take my lunch at my house it's pretty easy to see the big brown truck.