He said this, "I once saw a guy with his dog in a USPS tub on a dolly crossing Main St. I was so offended for what he was using our equipment for that I confronted and confiscated our tub. I i take my job and resources seriously."
What crazy uses have you seen our equipment? Drop me a note here.
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While visiting a friend in juvenile hall, USPS flat tubs were being used to hold confiscated items that were not allowed behind the front doors of the facility. In this same place, USPS flat tubs were being used to hold ice melt by the front door. Didn't really think I should confront them since the employees all had guns. :)
A friend told me about visiting a business where they had about 3 dozen of our small mail hampers with the company logo spray-painted over our information. When he mentioned this, his escort gave him a funny look as if to say "Is there a problem here?"
I was helping to do media here in Las Vegas several years ago. One of the TV stations came over to do a story on the fact that we wanted people to return our flat tubs, there was a lot of publicity on that at the time. After a brief interview in the lobby, I helped the camera man carry some equipment to his van. There in the back of the van, he had one of our tubs filled with cords and other miscellaneous items. He got very nervous, dumped the tub into his van and handed it to me without saying a word.
Another time my manager and I went to a charitable organization that asked people to send them their used greeting cards. They recycled them, however, they received a lot more than they were equiped to handle. They used our hampers to store them in their back lot area. There were over 200 hampers sitting outside filled with used cards. Some had weeds growing out of the cards they had been outside so long. Those were all eventually picked up after they empted them.
While on vaction in NY, NY four years ago, coming from a one person Post Office in Colorado. I visited some Post offices while I was there. But what really inpressed me was I saw our equipment every where. The two pictures that I love are hanging over my desk. One is a homeless guy going up the middle of the road the wrong way pushing one of our hampers, I couldn't stand it not knowing what he had in that hamper.
I ran out into the street and peeked in, no there wasn't mail. It was half full of aluminum cans.
The other picture is of a FedEX truck unloading in front of a hotel he had three of our tubs.
He was loading them with his deliveries.
So if you live in NY, NY alls you have to do is look around!
A couple of years ago I went to an estate auction. There among the things to be sold was a stack of our flat tubs. I "bought" them for $1.00.
I waited on a guy at the window who saw our cages and commented that "they" sure liked them to store split wood in!
On the Jurassic Park ride in Orlando, there is an orage postal pallet among the props.
I went to a church yard sale that had all of their items neatly arranged in USPS flat tubs. They said it was so they could carry everything inside quickly if it rained.
Ive never seen our tubs anywhere.
I have seen our tubs being used to store newspapers for selling in Juarez, Mexico. As soon as you cross over there are vendors using them to hold the newspapers or cigarette cartons which they carry while trying to sell their items to cars in line heading back to the U.S.A.
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