one of my fellow carriers told me of a phenomenon she calls "Data Drop".
Data Drop is when you bid off of a route and have been off of it for a short while, and another carrier asks you info about your old route like a no such number, or if a certain customer from that route is UTF.. and you have absolutely no idea. Out of sight out of mind. It's like you never carried the thing.
i used to think it was funny when i would see a customer on the route, talk to them, and then see them off the clock somewhere in my civilian clothes and they would walk right by me like they couldn't possibly recognize me unless i was wearing blue polyester.
well, the reverse just happened to me..several times in one night.
i was at my son's curriculum night at school.
i deliver in the same zip that i live in and lots of customers old and new have kids in school with mine.
so at curriculum night i had two families come up to me and ask why i wasn't there mail carrier anymore. i recognized their faces, but had a complete data drop as to their names and where they exactly lived..and i was their mail carrier just a year ago!
another lady told me "you're my carrier!" and i swear to God i couldn't even place her.
i did a total data drop on her and i'm still her carrier... i guess i need people to be standing in their yard or i have no idea who they are!
scary.
2 comments:
That is soooo true!!! Ha!
I went regular in May so I have totally data dropped all info that I held while I was a PTF running all the other routes!!!!
I delivered 7 years on the auxillary route and someone asked me the other day about an address and I was CLUELESS!!!!
Now I don't feel so bad!!!
One time leaving the copy shop a lady starts talking to me and I faked it for 3 minutes trying to think what customer it was, then later I realized it was my cousin's wife!
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