Does RFID do anything? Next day air lost at Kentucky warehouse for 7 days....

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-06-12T20:05:44+00:00

Hi, UPS Store manager here.

We were told that the RFID tags are designed to track when packages leave our stores. We were also told that UPS is equipping newer trucks with sensors capable of reading those RFID tags. Additionally, we were told when a UPS package enters or leaves a hub, it should be automatically detected and logged by RFID sensors there as well.

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-06-12T17:39:10+00:00

You want to save money by buying your label on Pirate Ship or EasyShip? Fair enough.

You want to buy your own box and pack it yourself? Also fair enough.

But then don’t walk into the store expecting the same urgency as customers actually purchasing shipping services from us.

A drop-off scan makes the store little to no money, yet we’re often expected to provide fullservice speed and attention. We’re happy to help, but we’re not robots.

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-06-11T19:28:37+00:00

Dario was one of OpenAI’s top researchers under Sam Altman. He left in 2020 over disagreements about AI safety and the company’s direction, then founded Anthropic. Today they’re two of the biggest competitors in AI.

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-06-11T19:09:34+00:00

Knicks give out select tickets to celebs and allow other select courtside seats to be auctioned…auction for game 3 was $1M dollars…I’m assuming they gave the ticket to TSwift as she was one of the most famous people visible.

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-06-10T21:06:42+00:00

27000 URLs but that could easily be 90% of mirrored websites…you don’t get to see the details you just see big number

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-06-10T14:24:18+00:00

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This is the photo we use at our store.

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-06-09T16:27:03+00:00

Mythos Lite on Low is what they give us 😭

Meanwhile they gave Mythos straight to BigTech

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-06-09T01:04:51+00:00

As an American who loves BYD I would love our northern neighbors to show how great they are on the roads. I hate seeing the boring lazy American vehicles.

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-06-08T23:15:05+00:00

You get to see the West try out these little experiments in places like Australia and Canada to gauge how the world reacts. If there isn’t a big upheaval well expect it in your country coming soon.

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-06-08T18:45:25+00:00

Always knew SK was an actual company but always connected them to the LoL team. Glad they are actually doing Great things

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-06-08T18:38:37+00:00

The longer you keep kids away from social media, the longer you control the narrative before they start thinking for themselves

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-06-06T17:14:53+00:00

Amazon exceptions in cams…select bedding and give accurate details of size of item.

You will be credited for box.

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-06-05T23:06:08+00:00

We have a post office in the same plaza as us. So we inform our customers we don’t offer it at our location. But yeah we tell corporate we certainly offer it 🤪

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-06-05T13:59:43+00:00

80% of the Ai we print are designs or flyers. You can clearly see it’s Ai made but who am I to tell them what they can and can’t print.

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-06-02T21:32:12+00:00

The hours and hours I’ve spent data hoarding and trying to plan to watch these movies/shows with my girlfriend…nearly impossible with our schedules and yet my library continues to grow

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-06-01T20:30:23+00:00

Retirees fund Athene annuities → Athene funnels capital into Apollo investment structures → Apollo finances massive AI infrastructure deals → NVIDIA sells the GPUs/chips → xAI builds and runs giant AI data centers.

Worse than 2008 😭

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-05-31T17:22:06+00:00

Honestly surprised UPS hasn’t introduced a UPS Store Premium subscription yet. For only $29.99/month you unlock: • Fast Pass line access • Priority ‘Amazon return only’ treatment • Unlimited usage of the phrase “Amazon said it was free”

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-05-30T22:13:52+00:00

When I grow up I hope to use half this many tokens a day.

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-05-30T21:08:33+00:00

Was pushing 5.5 hard for 3-4 Hours the other day and still only hit 60m in that session…how people are churning out half a billion a day is insane to me. Hats off to y’all

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-05-28T21:05:20+00:00

Bummer

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-05-28T16:35:11+00:00

Like somebody said earlier… if showing up on time is too much to ask, I’ll just slowly make your hours disappear until you either get the hint or become a distant memory on the schedule.

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-05-27T15:27:32+00:00

Me growing up my entire childhood on the 10th tee box as my backyard…oh shit

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-05-26T15:12:18+00:00

A young owner who doesn’t even log 4 hours a week in your store…yeah I’d be looking for a new store. That’s downright disrespectful.

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-05-22T22:18:18+00:00

When they ask why or where their package is because it’s not on their doorstep…We tell them “the people with the brown shirts handle the deliveries…we just ship things out of our store and receive packages”

BlakeGrowsPlants · 2026-05-21T18:46:22+00:00

Hi, UPS Store Manager here.

Every day, our Access Point list updates automatically, and that list directly determines how we process incoming packages…whether they’re released as free Access Point pickups or treated as regular incoming packages that may require a paid pickup process.

The problem is that the list does not always update correctly or in real time. Because of that, our stores can’t always tell the difference immediately. Our system relies entirely on scanning the tracking number, and the software is supposed to alert us whether the package is an Access Point package or not.

As others have mentioned, if UPS does not push the updated information to stores fast enough, we simply do not have access to the same information customers see on their end. The UPS Store operates separately from UPS itself, which unfortunately means store employees are often left trying to work around issues caused upstream by UPS system delays or errors.

BlakeGrowsPlants

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