The most weird things I had encountered during working at the UPS store in Cockeysville Baltimore is that for one identity there can be many different looking/shape/height persons.
The owner of another UPS store located at Towson, Peter appeared close to our store owner that visited our store more often than other store owners.
After moving to the new location in July 2019, one day Peter talked on the phone with the senior associate Raj to borrow blank label rolls. He walked in with bright yellow polo shirt, skinny, small face, short black spiky hair. Raj recognized him right away and greeted him and handed him with the label rolls. He helped us on processing USPS packages little bit because at the moment one customer brought more than 40 packages to be shipped. This was my first time seeing him.
Later there was annual regional stores online conference and for some reason, Raj couldn’t attend. So the store owner asked me to stay at the store for extra time to attend the meeting and report to him next day. There I saw a totally different person as Peter. He was with long face with narrow eyes, less hair volume appeared more soft…mostly totally different personality.
One afternoon an average height middle aged white guy with little potbelly, long face, thin hair and an extremely short round faced guy with a lot dark eye circles walked in. I greeted them. The taller guy introduced himself as Peter although he looked totally different the Peter I saw before and the short guy as the owner of the other store. The other store owner once visited us to borrow label rolls as well, much taller and stout than this little guy. Both of them reminded me some colleagues in AAI Corp I encountered once or twice. They pointed the name cards on the register, saying they look good and asked me where they were printed. Those name cards are the basic ones (cheapest ones) ordered from UPS store market place. Every store owner and associate with little experience know it. They asked me if they could look inside the packaging room. Although I felt they were phony, but for the courtesy, I showed them in. Time by time we let some customers to see the packaging room to make them feel comfortable to leave their items with us.
They looked around a little bit and left. Next day I told the store owner about it and expressed my concern. The store owner made phone call to Peter to verify if he did visit us previous day. To my surprise, Peter confirmed everything.
Then another afternoon, Raj called in to inform me that Peter would bring a guitar to pack up because his store was short of guitar box. A tall, skinny, lush black hair, triangular faced white guy came to the store to pack up a guitar. I was packing some paintings with frames while he packed up the guitar and left. Newly hired associate Tarsha told me she saw him many times in the post office where she used to work for. He was not polite person.
Next day our store owner told me he watched the surveillance video when Peter entered in the store and called him on the phone. But to my knowledge, the guy didn’t talk on his cell phone in the store.
Bob is a tall, big white guy with thin light colored hair. He visited our store often to do notary services in 2019 . Our store owner stopped that.
One afternoon in 2021 a guy looked similar to him, but much shorter and smaller than him with black hair came in, told us he was Bob and asked about a package. I told him to leave his phone number and if there was package, I would call him to pick it up. Karon, the associate was there as well. He left the store for a better job couple days later.
Later we did receive a package for him and I informed him to pick it up. When he was arrived, I was at back office working on some paperwork. Tarsha greeted him. I heard the conversation and walked out. There was a younger guy with black thick hair, big body build…I showed the package to Tarsha to release it to him.
I’m not sure what they were up to, but sure that was their games…We as commoners have to pretend not to see, basically ignore it.