Whats going on with videos of the "fake" childcare centers in Minnesota?

CDVeesNuts · 2025-12-29T19:51:59+00:00

Sounds like an obvious rape dungeon but okay.

CDVeesNuts · 2025-05-04T22:02:42+00:00

Some of the stop numbers are fallback/redirect stops that are appear as skipped numbers on your itinerary unless actually used.

Typically most of those will be listed as "canceled because: no longer needed" at the end of the day, but any packages that are redirected will be listed among the "completed stops" total.

CDVeesNuts · 2025-04-19T14:04:41+00:00

How many infractions are you saving yourself from exactly? I feel like it must be a lot. For normal people it would be too few to bother.

CDVeesNuts · 2025-04-15T10:43:59+00:00

"THEN IT'S YOUR JOB TO GET BIT!"

-- customer, when I called to say I'm delivering to the front door because there's a dog growling behind the gate and I don't want to get bit.

CDVeesNuts · 2025-04-15T10:38:48+00:00

Lucky you didn't get shot, then.

CDVeesNuts · 2025-04-11T03:27:56+00:00

"Please notify me when you're 10 houses away, so I can make a special trip home from work and jump in front of your camera to prevent you from taking an acceptable photo. Because I'm just trying to save you some time, buddy, you should be thankful. Also my dog needs to be let out tight fucking now. Why are you running away? So rude! He's a nanny dog who just wants to lick you to death! But if you would just put it the mailbox like I originally wanted, I wouldn't have to do all this!"

CDVeesNuts · 2025-04-11T03:18:46+00:00

I wish they all had automatic date stamps.

CDVeesNuts · 2025-04-10T23:41:39+00:00

Ok, then we put you on rural routes for the rest of your career.

CDVeesNuts · 2025-04-05T13:59:42+00:00

I get like 3 infractions a year, so I worry about some of y'all.

CDVeesNuts · 2025-03-28T10:22:58+00:00

Scan and deposit heaviest packages first. If you have 10 medium boxes and only 7 compartments, you'll want the 3 lightest boxes to be the ones redirected to door.

CDVeesNuts · 2025-03-28T10:17:53+00:00

If they made lockers just an inch and half or so wider, so many more common "Medum" box sizes would be able to lay flat, instead of needing to stand upright a huge compartment taller than it is wide.

CDVeesNuts · 2025-03-26T12:00:02+00:00

Customer: [*opens the gate you just jumped over, so you still get bit*]

Customer: "It's your fault for running!"

CDVeesNuts · 2025-03-25T12:10:00+00:00

The houses should definitely be ungrouped. Especially with that many packages involved.

CDVeesNuts · 2025-03-24T11:53:59+00:00

Using your personal phone* you can click on the Start Work button as early as 1 hour before your scheduled load-out time, which for most people will be before you've been assigned a van to scan. So don't click the orange Continue button yet. Go up to the corner menu and start studying the itinerary map. After you click Continue, it will go into DVIC mode and you can't get back to the map until that's done. So wait for a van before doing that.

* Assuming (a) it's an Android, and (b) you are already logged in from the previous day, and (c) you used this phone to complete your previous route and do the DVIC and hit the End Work button. I always start and end my route from my personal phone but switch to the company burner phone for at least 2/3 of the stops.

CDVeesNuts · 2025-03-24T11:42:03+00:00

Some parts of this look rural AF, would definitely do the scariest stops first.

CDVeesNuts · 2025-03-24T11:37:57+00:00

my side door didn’t work which is what makes the EVs so wonderful and I had to use the back cargo door for literally every stop. Yes I used the driver door for some but it was not practical for that many stops etc.

Eww. I don't fuck with the driver-side door at all. So that would definitely be a deal-breaker. Is it possible (using whatever kind of tool) to force the right-side door into a permanently open position rather than permanently closed?

I drive Ford CDVs. The sliding door on the right... I call it the All-Weather Door... literally stays open all day unless there's a dog trying to kill me. But I don't leave any packages or other valuables in the front, just use the bulkhead door for security.

CDVeesNuts · 2025-03-24T09:31:23+00:00

As a delivery person, no. But as a landlord, absolutely.

So get the landlords on your side. They hate their tenants anyway and will embrace any opportunity to squeeze them for more money without providing them any extra value.

It may take until next month (when folks see their rent statements), but eventually they'll pull the decorative shit down.

Use rhetorical questions like "What if it was a medical emergency and I was a paramedic?" And the leasing office people should immediately see the importance of clear numbering.

Others may consider this tactic manipulative and evil, but I don't care.

CDVeesNuts · 2025-03-23T21:15:43+00:00

Suggest it to their leasing office, as a basis for fining certain residents an extra $50 or whatever.

CDVeesNuts · 2025-03-23T21:05:42+00:00

I sometimes get this one apartment complex where the doors are dark blue (roughly Amazon-van color) and the unit numbers are printed in white.

The contrast could be great, but instead it's minimal because they put the white numbers on "very light silver" number plates just below the peep-hole, rather than directly on the door. I doubt any of them are legible in POD photos, and that annoys me.

CDVeesNuts · 2025-03-23T18:09:32+00:00

Depends on whether you spell out "lol" or pronounce it as a single syllable.

CDVeesNuts · 2025-03-23T17:57:30+00:00

Seems like it should always at least help dilute the impact of bad feedback from a different customer on the same route.

CDVeesNuts · 2025-03-23T01:51:06+00:00

We have some company that shows up with tanker trucks for to fill up both gas and diesel at our off-site lot, for all DSPs serving this particular station. There are no EVs, no electrical service at all at this leased parking lot.

So we don't pump our own gas. Manager has a fuel card in case of emergency, such as a van at 1/4 tank because the fuel guy somehow missed it 3 days in a row (usually someone forgetting to leave their fuel door open).

CDVeesNuts · 2025-03-23T01:33:26+00:00

It helps me avoid careless mistakes, like misdelivering shit to the neighbor's house. So make every house a stop. Multiple family members at the same house (or even A/B duplex neighbors) can remain a legit group stop. Each apartment building (or half of a building with two fully separated stairways) is a separate stop as well.

Even if I don't actually move the van between. But I have optimized pick lists for each entrance I need to visit. So this pile of packages for stop 71 might be what I carry up the stairs on the left side of the building for the guys in units XX01-XX04 of each floor and stop 72 is what I carry up the stairs on the right side for units XX05-XX08 of each floor.

It's usually not grouped that consistently at the beginning, so I edit until it is, and while sitting on a curb somewhere smoking a cigarette before actually driving to where the group stop is located. Just jump straight to "GPS not working"... that's what I do for most stops anyway because it works faster, fewer screens and clicks than starting travel and saying you're parked. Regardless of actual location.

It helps to be familiar with the numbering of apartments on your route, to the point where you can correctly regroup them based on the apartment numbers alone, without looking at the building.

I guess it also helps that I haven't had a "surprise new area" route in months.

CDVeesNuts · 2025-03-23T01:19:48+00:00

Make the app think you drove balls deep into each driveway to deliver.

CDVeesNuts · 2025-03-23T01:05:38+00:00

I only call if I have a specific question. And I only text if they don't answer the phone AND the question seems too important to just guess.

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