Please use U.P.S. tomorrow to thank them for dumping Bill O'Reilly

[Botany]

http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/9491

UPS Halts Advertising on Bill O’Reilly's Popular Cable Show
Submitted by Eugmc on March 28, 2009 - 10:52am. Business & Technology Consumer News Entertainment News Television
Bill O’Reilly has lost the United Parcel Service as an advertiser as popular website Think Progress took issue with the FOX News harassment of
websites managing editor Amanda Terkel. Think Progress has sent correspondence to all the sponsors of the show with UPS the first pull
advertising for the highly rated show "The O’Reilly". UPS sent this letter to ThinkProgress:

Thank you for sending an e-mail expressing concern about UPS advertising during the Bill O’Reilly show on FOX News. We do consider such comments as
we review ad placement decisions which involve a variety of news, entertainment and sports programming. At this time, we have no plans to continue advertising
during this show.

Here is a segment from O’Reilly's nemesis Keith Olbermann talking about the incident on his show Countdown from earlier this week:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOtb7thIbSo&feature=related

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I want U.P.S. to have a great day tomorrow ..... feel free to copy this post and pass it around the"internets."

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Use them all the time

Brown rocks!

[Botany]

2. I am going to send some cheese to california just because they

dropped O'Reilly ...... I would like to see this idea go viral.

[mod mom]

6. and their employees are always so nice!

[FreakinDJ]

3. Attention Ebay Seller - spec UPS shipping ONLY

Love the Brown

[Maraya1969]

12. They charage ZERO to pick the package up at your house. And it's a real convenience.

I think they will pick up until at least 7PM because I had a package delivered at that time.

EDIT: To update that I tried to get that service with the US postal service and they wanted $14 for it.

Oh and you can schedual a pickup right from their website.

[OKNancy]

13. The US post office picks up packages for free

all the time for me. They do it on the regular visit. You can request a pick-up online too and it's free.

I love UPS too, but I like the post office better for sending so I don't have to buy a scale or go to their stores.
I love the Post Office flat rate boxes.

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

4. k r

[Cirque du So-What]

5. An interesting research project

would be to count the number of posts from naysayers who have over the years contended - in the strongest of terms - that boycotts are utterly useless. At least the example of UPS now stands as empirical evidence that we CAN affect the revenue stream of RW demagogue bullies who shout into bullhorns.

[Horse with no Name]

7. Love those teamsters

What can Brown...do for you??
Seriously. I live in an area where I have the UPS guy's phone number.
He is awesome. If I have a package and I am not home to receive it, he will leave it in town at my SO's office(where he makes daily deliveries).
I love UPS.
This tickles me.

[pipi_k]

8. We must have the same UPS guy!

We have his cell phone number. He said we can call him if we ever have something for him to pick up.

If the roads are too bad for him to drive on, he'll leave our stuff with a neighbor who owns a business in town, and then the neighbor drops it off here on her way home (she lives on our road).


Almost all of the UPS drivers we've had here in the past 13 years have been friendly and courteous.

There was only one guy, working the roads when we first moved here, who was a bit of a problem. We called him "Mad John". He would come screeching down the hill (dirt road, steep hill) and whip into the driveway, which was shorter then...actually ended in thick forest just past the garage/barn. He would slam on the brakes, turn around fast, and just take time to toss the package out the truck onto the porch and then whiz back out again and up the hill. Never said "Hi"...always had a sour look on his face.

Well, one winter the roads were real bad from a snowstorm and we were coming back home from someplace when we discovered the road was blocked by Mad John's big brown truck which had gotten stuck. Even though we were only driving a little Ford Ranger pickup, Mr P hooked Big Brown up to it and we freed him from his snow trap.

After that, he was a whole lot more sociable, and instead of whizzing into the driveway doing 50 MPH, he only did 25....

And he always said "Hi" as he threw our package out the truck window...

:7

[sagetea]

9. Always have, always will.

I like UPS, I only use their services for our business and they've always treated us very well.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

10. I'll do that - Thanks! nt

[Earth_First]

11. kick!

[Stephanie]

14. Actually, I do have something I need to mail

A book for my sister - thanks for the idea.

[Pool Hall Ace]

15. I always the UPS store for all of my copying and faxing.

Unfortunately, only the USPS has access to the building I am most likely to ship to, but I will certainly use UPS as often as I can.

[Hepburn]

16. Right on....

...and let them know why! :patriot:

[Gabi Hayes]

17. one small step for a company, but lest we forget:

http://dbacon.igc.org/Strikes/07ups.htm

.......For two decades unions have been backed into almost every major strike in the country, strikes not of their own choosing. They've been defensive battles, planned months, and even years, in advance by the companies. In the Detroit newspaper strike, for instance, the newspaper agency went to the police department in Sterling Heights, where its printing plant is located. It promised to pay all the overtime costs of scabherding four months before the strike started. By contrast, the unions, hoping desperately to avoid a strike, did hardly any planning at all. That scenario, over and over again, has left the companies holding almost all the cards.

By contrast, the most important single factor distinguishing the UPS strike from most of its predecessors of the last 15 years, and one of the most important reasons why it succeeded, was that it was an offensive strike, not a defensive one. It was a struggle in which the union was prepared, fought over issues which it defined, and one which relied overwhelmingly on the efforts of the members themselves.

In an era in which unions have become afraid, for good reason, that strikes can lead to permanent replacement and destruction, the battle fought out at UPS shows that strikes can be successful. They are still workers' fundamental weapon to enforce their will on giant corporations.

The strike settlement made important progress on the dispute's central issue - creating full-time jobs for part timers. About 57% of UPS' 185,000 Teamster workers labor part time - in many terminals two-thirds, or even three-quarters of the employees. They make up eighty percent of new hires since 1993.

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lots more at this most interesting link, which provides some some optimism for strengthened labor rights.

dunno if this would've happened in the current environment, but UPS is notorious for the way they underemploy their workers, in order to screw them out of benefits

[Mike 03]

18. It will be my utmost pleasure!

In fact, I have a book order from Amazon coming on Tuesday. I will tell him at the door how happy I am about this.

Great suggestion, and great post.

[Mike 03]

19. Kick and Rec. This is great to know! NT

[elleng]

20. Sure.

Only reason NOT to do so is they don't do weekends and holidays.

[Matariki]

21. You could UPS O'Reilly a loofah.