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Other how did my UPS driver know that the little box he delivered this morning contained my new iPhone 14 Pro Max?
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Money has a really strong smell, at least to me. I used to work as a bank teller. I can just imagine how easy it must be for dogs to sniff it out.
They can not only sniff out US currency, but most of the major currencies of the world! There are also customs dogs who are trained to sniff out food and plant materials in luggage. Can you imagine how complicated that must be?
Honestly, dog noses are almost miraculous.
Yes. but what do you get THAT delivered into
my neighbor's 180-pound overweight Doberman can come and guard it for me.
what's next? iPhone sniffing dogs that sniff out a dozen iPhones with SIM card slots from someone who smuggle them across the Canada/US border?
I could have used a money-sniffing dog when my father passed away last Christmas.
He stashed money all over the house. We found it in the most unlikely places. 11 different currencies(he travelled a lot). It took us almost a week before we were confident that we didn't leave any.(just before we sold the house) At last count, we found over $9000 in cash(again 11 different currencies), plus over 50 pounds of euro, British, and other foreign coins. He would bring back the foreign coins after his vacations over the years. The paper money were easily exchanged at the local banks... but the coins, well, nobody would take them. We even found money in the most unlikely places: empty iPhone boxes that he collected over the years. 
That wouldn't bother me.
It would bother me if the driver said, "hey, Jane, here's your personal massager."
I’m so sorry for your loss. I lost my dad around the same time. He went into the hospital a couple of days before Christmas and passed away there a month later. I’m STILL slowly working through my childhood home, which I discovered has some serious mold right in the room I most wanted to go through (my dad’s workshop where I spent so much time with him).I could have used a money-sniffing dog when my father passed away last Christmas.
I now have full charge of my mom’s care, so it’s all rather challenging to juggle on top of what we were doing for my widowed father-in-law. I guess it will get done when it gets done. I’m glad that you were able to recover the money. It all sounded like a rather stressful treasure hunt.
my dad had surgery a few months before he suddenly died in his sleep. I was just happy that he didn't suffer at the end.
when we were on the "treasure hunt", we weren't stressed out about it. It was more like "oh, come on, Dad, when did you become a squirrel?" We laughed about it. He also had a safety deposit box which we couldn't access. We had to get our lawyer to contact the bank and waited 2 weeks before they opened it for us. He kept nothing valuable there... just old documents and his stars.(he had 3 star at time of his retirement)
it was almost as if he knew he was leaving us.... he had removed the passcode from his iPhone 12 Pro which I bought him. if he hadn't, it would not have been possible to download all the photos that he took with it for a year. (he used to be a "fanboy" of Android and I managed to convince him to switch)
I prefer UPS as they almost always deliver to businesses in the morning/ early afternoon and private homes after dinner whereas FedEx will to deliver to homes during working hours. My 14 came FedEx but I was off that day and was home to sign for it!
UPS delivers to my house close to 6 or after. Fedex is ANYTIME is good for them but not me. LOL I've had fedex come at 1pm, 3pm, 5pm, 9am, 10:30am. With fedex it's a crap shoot
Where I live the UPS drivers route is the same area everyday. I must be at the end because my UPS guy always comes around 6pm. He said he would never be in this area in the morning or right after lunch. He said he's in my area in the evening..doesn't that depend on where your house is situated on the UPS driver's route?
James
10 years ago, I moved to a new house and I thought that I would be UPS package first thing in the morning. The house was less than 1 miles from the UPS center.(strangely, next to the elementary school) Unfortunately, that did not happen. My subdivision was actually that at the very end of the delivery routes.
at my current house, my next door neighbor is a driver for UPS for the last 20 years. Guess what... UPS trucks come around 5PM... no earlier.... (even slower when my neighbor is home and the UPS drivers start chatting with him) Just yesterday, he and the UPS driver were chatting for almost 10 minutes. I could see that the driver had my Amazon package in his hand.... after their chat, he walked across the grass and handed me my package.
In our area I honestly believe UPS makes a conscious effort to deliver business deliveries during "business hours" and then reload the trucks for the afternoon shift to deliver to private homes.doesn't that depend on where your house is situated on the UPS driver's route?
UPS does not generally reload trucks during the day, but yes, they do prioritize business delivery and pickup to be sure they get there when the business is actually open.
Yes, I live in the downtown of a large city, so my UPS driver has a lot of both business and residential stops.
When I’m tracking a delivery, I can watch him do a loop and drive to the businesses in the area, driving within half a block of my place more than once, before getting to residences later in the day. I used to get frustrated, seeing it so close, yet not coming to me, but then I realized there was method to it.
When I’m tracking a delivery, I can watch him do a loop and drive to the businesses in the area, driving within half a block of my place more than once, before getting to residences later in the day. I used to get frustrated, seeing it so close, yet not coming to me, but then I realized there was method to it.
the old saying "be careful what you wish for" strikes again...
somehow, the UPS deliveries in my subdivision now come first thing in the morning... (instead of the usual 4PM to 5PM)... I do mean FIRST thing in the morning, as in 7:00AM to 7:30AM.
that combined with the fact that Amazon switched to 100% USPS deliveries to 99% UPS deliveries in my area a couple of months ago.... I usually have 3 to 5 Amazon orders arriving every week... well... you do the math.
(Amazon doesn't have its own trucks in my city)I don't need to wake up until 8:00AM every weekday morning. For the last several mornings, I was still in bed at 7:15AM and I heard the UPS truck roll up on my driveway. At least the driver was nice enough not to ring the door bell, but my cats and dogs saw him and started running the front door and then up to my bedroom to wake me. I have never gone through coffee so quickly.