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Courier sacked over abusing parcel addressed to NSW premier

<p>A courier has been fired after filming himself destroying a package addressed to Gladys Berejiklian. </p> <p>The delivery driver with Couriers Please was captured on video inside a sorting room, and quickly went viral on social media. </p> <p>In the video, the man holds up a package that shows the NSW premier's name on the label. </p> <p>He then talks to the camera and says "Ladies and gentlemen, f**king Gladys."</p> <p>He turns to a co-worker and continues, <span>“I’ve got a shipment for Gladys. Look, look, look. You know what to do with this?” before throwing it across the room.</span></p> <p><span>He looks back at the camera and looks pleased with his actions, before seemingly spitting into his mask. </span></p> <p><span>The courier company in questions addressed the issue, saying it has been made aware of the unfortunate </span>incident. </p> <p><span>“CouriersPlease has been alerted to a video circulating on the internet in relation to a parcel addressed to the NSW Premier’s office,” the company said in a statement.</span></p> <p>“The content of the video in no way reflects the values or code of conduct at CouriersPlease."</p> <p>“The freight handler in the video was dismissed immediately as part of our investigation, and we are also speaking with our franchisees and employees to ensure everyone adheres to our code of conduct.”</p> <p>The video comes as NSW continues to boast record-breaking COVID-19 case numbers each day due to the deadly Delta variant. </p> <p>Greater Sydney residents have entered their 10th week in lockdown, which has been extended until the end of September.</p> <div class="caas-yvideo-wrapper yvideo caas-yvideo-elem" data-video-index="0"> <div> <div class="caas-yvideo caas-yvideo-rendered" data-videoconfig="{&quot;autoplay&quot;:false,&quot;duration&quot;:0,&quot;height&quot;:360,&quot;lang&quot;:&quot;en-AU&quot;,&quot;media_id_1&quot;:&quot;435ac257-8079-3355-afac-d35c8e77af5e&quot;,&quot;pageSpaceId&quot;:&quot;14589907&quot;,&quot;queryParams&quot;:null,&quot;region&quot;:&quot;AU&quot;,&quot;site&quot;:&quot;news&quot;,&quot;startScreen&quot;:{},&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw-records-over-1200-cases-012256825.html?format=embed&amp;region=AU&amp;lang=en-AU&amp;site=news&amp;player_autoplay=0&amp;expName=y20&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:640,&quot;thumbnail&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:{&quot;raw&quot;:null}},&quot;YVAP&quot;:{&quot;accountId&quot;:&quot;145&quot;,&quot;timeout&quot;:8},&quot;expName&quot;:&quot;y20&quot;,&quot;playlist&quot;:{&quot;mediaItems&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;435ac257-8079-3355-afac-d35c8e77af5e&quot;}],&quot;videoRecommendations&quot;:true,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;au-news-must-watch-playlist&quot;},&quot;videoAlias&quot;:&quot;nsw-records-over-1200-cases-012256825&quot;,&quot;hidePlaylist&quot;:true,&quot;comscoreC4&quot;:&quot;News&quot;,&quot;articleUuid&quot;:&quot;c28420c6-a96e-4ecd-8443-eaed15c0f008&quot;,&quot;pct&quot;:&quot;story&quot;,&quot;pblob&quot;:&quot;revsp:y7.yahoo7news;lu:0;pct:story&quot;,&quot;expBucket&quot;:&quot;news-AU-en-AU-def&quot;,&quot;expBucketName&quot;:&quot;news-AU-en-AU-def&quot;}"> <div class="player"> <div class="vp-content normal vp-browser-ua vp-browser-safari vp-browser-safaridesktop vp-browser-desktop vp-browser-macintosh vp-device-desktop vp-muted vp-state-video vp-mode-video vp-flag-paused vp-hide-controls" aria-label="Yahoo Video Player"> <div class="vp-main"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p><em>Image credit: 7News</em></p>

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Courier loses package containing family’s $863,000 inheritance

<p>No one likes to have a package lost in the mail, but it was a particularly bitter pill for one Canadian family to swallow after learning that the parcel containing their $863,000 inheritance was lost by US courier company UPS.</p> <p>In February, Lorette and John Taylor from Ontario were finalising Lorette’s father’s will and sending out the inheritances to her siblings, including her brother Louis Paul Herbert, who lives around 440km away.</p> <p>They visited their bank to get certified cheques but were told bank drafts would be more appropriate given the sums involved. Cautious about sending so much money across the country, the Taylors inquired if there were any anti-theft protections in place.</p> <p>“I was told there were procedures to deal with that,” John told <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/toronto/ups-td-canada-trust-bank-draft-1.4447384" target="_blank"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">CBC News</span></strong></a>. “[We were told we would just] fill out some documentation and a new draft would be issued.”</p> <p>So, the couple went ahead, hiring UPS to ship the bank draft from their lawyer’s office to a UPS store near where Louis lived. It made its way to a distribution centre near Toronto, but that was the last they saw of the money.</p> <p>“I’m waiting at the UPS store, around 3 pm because that’s when they said the guys came in ... nothing shows up,” Louis recalled. “I came back in the evening. Nothing shows up ... and I’m wondering, ‘What’s happened to my inheritance?’</p> <p>“I should have just driven [to the lawyer’s office]. It’s something I kick myself in the rear over every day.”</p> <p>A spokesperson for UPS admitted that, “While UPS’ service is excellent in our industry, we are unfortunately not perfect. Occasionally, the loss of a package does occur.</p> <p>“Our records indicate that our team followed UPS protocol and an exhaustive search for this package was completed by our Operations and Security teams. Unfortunately, we were unable to locate the package.”</p> <p>As compensation for the loss, however, the courier offered the Taylors just $33 for the “inconvenience”.</p> <p>Understandably, the Taylors were unhappy with this result and a three-way battle began between them, UPS and their bank, TD Canada Trust, trying to recover the money.</p> <p>Finally, after 10 months, the bank has apologised and released the funds back to the family just hours after CBC News broke the story last week.</p> <p>“We understand that we’ve reached a resolution with our customer," a TD Canada Trust spokesperson said. “It’s clear to us we didn’t get this right along the way and that there was more we could have done to come to a resolution faster.”</p>

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Is this Australia's most careless courier?

<p>The race to be crowned Australia’s most careless courier seems to be heating up. Less than a week after an Australia Post worker was exposed for his <a href="http://www.oversixty.com.au/finance/insurance/2017/11/australia-post-worker-caught-on-camera-carelessly-throwing-parcels/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>cavalier approach to packing a delivery truck</strong></span></a>, another delivery driver has been caught out.</p> <p><a href="https://au.news.yahoo.com/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>7 News</strong></em></span></a> reports the courier has caught on CCTV violently throwing fragile packages over the fence of Adelaide woman Josie Grummel, who captured the footage on CCTV.</p> <p><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F7NewsMelbourne%2Fvideos%2F10156007587689301%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560" width="560" height="315" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p> <p>“F***ing a**hole,” she told 7 News. “There’s facilities out there to put them or he could have just neatly put them over the fence, there’s no need to throw them. It clearly says that it was fragile, and this way up, which it wasn’t.”</p> <p>The products, delicate air diffusers which were supposed to be Christmas presents, “were packaged very well, luckily, because he gave them a good chuck”.</p> <p>What are your thoughts? Do you think more should be done to regulate courier behaviour?</p> <p><em>Image credit: Facebook / 7 News</em></p>

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