What do you think a full-time UPS driver makes?
Doug Heffernan, on The King of Queens, was a UPS driver. And the character was drawn as a man of modest means, who perhaps struggled.
Now the show makes no sense.
Newser -It’s good to be the king. But if you can’t be the king, it’s not so bad to deliver boxes to the king in a big brown truck. USA Today reports that full-time UPS drivers will make an average of $170,000 in annual pay and benefits under their new contract. Part-time employees will make a bit more than $25 an hour, though with full health care and pension benefits, CEO Carol Tome said in an earnings call this week. The company and the Teamsters union agreed to the five-year contract while on the brink of a potentially paralyzing strike.
Based from my exposure to their drivers lately, I suspect they are only hiring recent border crossers.
Yeah, but how much do they pay in Union dues?
After my husband graduated with his useless Masters in Philosophy he worked for UPS. He made really good money but couldn’t stand the head office people. It wasn’t as though he had to deal with them often. He found a job teaching at a junior college and it paid significantly less with lesser benefits. So much for the degree in advanced bull shitting which was useless as gender studies.
Welp, there goes Amazon free delivery.
@Brad – The amazon drivers around here are worse!
Doug Heffernan was employed by IPS- International Parcel Service.
Great show with great cast including hottie Leah Remini…
Bad headline.
Doug worked for a fictional company IPS.
At least I know what a fucking headline is. – bfh
$170,000 a year ain’t nothing compared to the jobs Beachmom and Mary R Sitt have been offering in the comments… Their son’s brothers uncles cousin is pulling in 20k per month working from home a few hours a day.
IPS
https://kingofqueens.fandom.com/wiki/International_Parcel_Service
I mentioned this to our UPS guy at work.
He was as surprised as I was about the figures and he’s been with them so long he gets one week vacation a month. He claims maybe some upper management gets that but he says he’s nowhere near that.
$170K will go a lot farther in little rock than it will in NYC
but, $170K is still a lot of money for a delivery boy job
I have an old college buddy who got the big bucks, but he operated at arm 35000 feet.
He also had some Air Force experience flying various USAF cargo planes from C141 to C5.
“at around 35000 feet”
My mom used to call the idiot living next door the UPS man – Useless Piece of Shit.
got a close relative that drives for UPS. don’t know how much vacation they get but, I think they earn more time as they get more years in service. they work every day until their load is delivered, sometimes 12 hours or more, a day. during the Christmas season sometimes they get a helper & still pull 12 hour shifts. after the Christmas season it’s almost as bad w/ all the returns.
they have (at least in this region) no air conditioning in their cabs. maybe a self-brought small cage fan, or 2, that they can mount in the inside of the cab. the cargo bays usually reach temps of 120 + in the summer. the bays have no ventilation, not even a roof vent. you’d be surprised by the number of drivers that pass out from the heat in the back of the truck.
they deliver full sets of auto & truck tires & rims, large bricks of ammo, large screen tv’s, gun safes, garage lift-jacks, furniture, etc. …. practically anything you can order off of Scamazon (which they deliver to & from their warehouses practically every day). they also do many USPS deliveries that the Post Office will not handle due to weight.
FedEx has become the worse for me. most all my damaged packages come from them. when O’Breezy was pResident he made them take a lot of Sammies (Somalis) as drivers to keep their US gov’t contracts. had several drivers back off my driveway into the woods & get their vehicles stuck. they come up to the house & expect me to rectify their situation.
the Post office is almost as bad … most mail & packages have been coming later & later. one time it took 6 weeks for a check I sent my sister for my portion of our mom’s new phone for Christmas … & I lived in MD & my sister lived in NC! the MVA sends out license registration renewals over a month early because the mail deliveries are so slow … one time my registration didn’t come in time & I had to get a note from the MVA (sent to my e-mail) to carry in the glove box. they said it happens a lot … go figure
https://youtu.be/8R2syyseBJg
And here I wasted that time finishing high school…
Most of my AMAZON deliveries come postal…USPS!