GeneticHeirloom
Member
Are you tired of not knowing how a shipping depot works?
Wondering how nice your packages are handled in the mail?
Do you like to use Purolator?
If you do, Here is how there Shipping depots operated.
*Note* I'm not releasing any illegal information, there was no contract with my employer to not discuss details involved with my job, Anyone who wants to experience this first hand just has to go to the local Employment office, usually under day labour.
All Purolator shipping depots were the exact same, not in design, but in how it operated.
We would get upto a dozen 50 feet trailers a night, full to the roof for the first 30-40 feet and then a cascade of a couple hundred different sized boxes over the last 10 feet. I and another worker who would smoke up on our breaks and lunch had a beer roller system on wheels that we threw and I mean chucked all the packages on. It was constant the entire shift and we never had a chance to really look at parcels or else the sorter would shout out "hey dickhead wake up!".
So after my stint as the unloader, loading was the same thing except you chuck them in.
After that I was made sorter, where you have over a million boxes come through your shift and you have to pick out 4 or 5 zones over and over, the boxes are just thrown on so you end up jumping on the track and tripping over boxes to read the label and throw it back into your station, then look at all the boxes that have passed your station and make your way back.
when all that's done, the driver loads the packages into his small truck and takes em to your door.
Left about 4 years ago, infrastructure was at least 10 years old, doubt they've changed it at all.
NOTE* If you ever want your package to be around officers or management and have its contents looked over and documented make sure to get chain of signature parcel service.
THIS INFO WAS FOR MULTI-PROVINCIAL MAILING SHIPPING DEPOTS, NOT ACROSS BORDERS.
And NOTE:
NEVER SHIP ANYTHING ILLEGAL.
Wondering how nice your packages are handled in the mail?
Do you like to use Purolator?
If you do, Here is how there Shipping depots operated.
*Note* I'm not releasing any illegal information, there was no contract with my employer to not discuss details involved with my job, Anyone who wants to experience this first hand just has to go to the local Employment office, usually under day labour.
All Purolator shipping depots were the exact same, not in design, but in how it operated.
We would get upto a dozen 50 feet trailers a night, full to the roof for the first 30-40 feet and then a cascade of a couple hundred different sized boxes over the last 10 feet. I and another worker who would smoke up on our breaks and lunch had a beer roller system on wheels that we threw and I mean chucked all the packages on. It was constant the entire shift and we never had a chance to really look at parcels or else the sorter would shout out "hey dickhead wake up!".
So after my stint as the unloader, loading was the same thing except you chuck them in.
After that I was made sorter, where you have over a million boxes come through your shift and you have to pick out 4 or 5 zones over and over, the boxes are just thrown on so you end up jumping on the track and tripping over boxes to read the label and throw it back into your station, then look at all the boxes that have passed your station and make your way back.
when all that's done, the driver loads the packages into his small truck and takes em to your door.
Left about 4 years ago, infrastructure was at least 10 years old, doubt they've changed it at all.
NOTE* If you ever want your package to be around officers or management and have its contents looked over and documented make sure to get chain of signature parcel service.
THIS INFO WAS FOR MULTI-PROVINCIAL MAILING SHIPPING DEPOTS, NOT ACROSS BORDERS.
And NOTE:
NEVER SHIP ANYTHING ILLEGAL.
