{"id":7542,"date":"2008-12-28T03:07:06","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T03:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/ups_driver_hurls_package.html"},"modified":"2008-12-28T03:07:06","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T03:07:06","slug":"ups-driver-hurls-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/ups-driver-hurls-package.html","title":{"rendered":"UPS Driver Hurls Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you have <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Parcel_Service\">425,000 employees<\/a>, some will definitely do things which embarrass headquarters. Such is the case with this UPS driver who seemed to try to make a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.break.com\/index\/ups-man-throws-package.html\">basket<\/a> with this package. No word on how many points he will get for this one but odds are he received at least one pink slip followed by the words, &#8220;Don&#8217;t let the door hit you in the rear on the way out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bMWxmLaC3Vk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bMWxmLaC3Vk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/p>\n<p>He is pretty lucky in fact the resolution of the video is not great enough for him to be recognized.<\/p>\n<p>This is yet another example of how the web can take over a company&#8217;s branding and messaging in ways they cannot control. Viral videos like this have to be the worst nightmare for those in public relations and I would estimate this video is worth millions of dollars in negative publicity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you have 425,000 employees, some will definitely do things which embarrass headquarters. Such is the case with this UPS driver who seemed to try to make a basket with this package. No word on how many points he will get for this one but odds are he received at least one pink slip followed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,215,1,162,196,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}