Santa Tracker for the Great Brown Truck

[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.