UPS Follies

So, I come home from work today and see four boxes at my door.

• Which baffled me because I am expecting a delivery, but not before tomorrow, and it definitely won't run to four boxes.

I got closer and saw the boxes were labeled "AVON".

• Which further baffled me because I (trust me) have never and will never use Avon products.

Then I looked at the address label on the top box.

• Some genius of a UPS driver had left me boxes which should have gone to the same condo unit number across the street.

Sheesh.

From what I could make out from the boxes, they were all Avon sales materials. And they were all not heavy, so I just carried them across the street and left them at the proper door.

A unique sight

This morning while driving to work I had a first-time-for-me sighting. I passed a UPS tractor-trailer where the trailer was a flat-bed that held four large cargo containers of the sort that slide into planes for transport. I was especially surprised to see at least one portion of each container was transparent and I could see boxes that were stacked in them as I drove past.

It honestly never occurred to me before that such containers would be used anywhere but airports, but after doing a little thinking about it, I realized it must be most efficient to move these containers from the plane straight on to a flat-bed trailer when the distribution center that will transport all of the boxes in the containers to their final destination is not near an airport that UPS services.

As I saw this on northbound Interstate 15, I'd imagine the containers were most likely on the way to UPS distribution centers in Escondido and maybe other north San Diego County cities.