We’re Nationwide 2/27/2012
Well, admittedly, 43 of the vehicles are just whirling around Southeast-to-Central Michigan, as usual, but today we’re also tracking one Driver on her way back from Fort Lauderdale, FL, where she delivered an enormous, 2000 lb. engine, and another Driver headed towards Maryland with some other crucial stuff.
With our new 2012 rates & services, Metro Delivery has actually REDUCED the long distance prices by 12.5%, and as a result, people are hiring us for a lot more interstate dedicated deliveries recently. Now we need bigger monitors for our vehicle tracking…
“Serving Southeast Michigan and Beyond” is what it says on the side of the vehicle, as she’s stopping for a bagful of oranges for the trip back from beyond to Southeast Michigan…
Fat Thursday
…We ate 93 paczki. 65,100 calories.
There’s still 2 left, but nobody can bear to look at them.
Fat Wednesday
…Here are the totals from yesterday’s paczki massacre:
By the latest count, there are… 17 and one half paczki left, which means that Metro staff consumed… 77.5 paczki, or an estimated grand total of around 54,250 calories.
Fortunately, we have lots of opportunities to burn off the calories, what with all the stairs, and all the boxes, and all the walking… So, come on, people! There’s 17.5 paczki in the kitchen! Let’s see that powdered sugar fly! WE CAN’T LET THE PACZKI WIN!
Happy Locally-Sourced Fat Tuesday from Metro
It’s 3:01 PM and, as a company, we’ve eaten 4.75 dozen of paczkis so far. Mardi Gras beads have also been provided for the more festive drivers.
The beads we got from Fantasy Attic, in Depot Town, Ypsilanti- those excellent paczkis are from the sublime Washtenaw Dairy of Ann Arbor.
The custard ones always seem to go first around here…
We also got some apples (from Frog Holler Produce in Ann Arbor) to mitigate the cardiovascular risk.
The official Metro record for paczkis consumed by one individual in an 8-hour shift, set by a member of the Dispatch crew in 2004, stands unchallenged again so far, this year.
What is the official Metro record for paczkis consumed by one individual in an 8-hour shift, you ask?
He ate TEN paczkis in 8 hours. TEN. That’s legendary. We’d tell you his name, but we’re afraid his health insurance would drop him if they heard about it.
Metro Welcomes #142 to the Fleet
Our newest e-250 Van…with the NEW “Serving Southeastern Michigan, 24/7/365″ signage on it, so people hopefully understand better just what the heck we’re up to, all over the place at all hours.
Click on the photo to see all the gorgeous detail.
Views from the Road: The Uniroyal Tire
Metro Delivery loves the Big Tire on I-94 between Detroit Metropolitan Airport and Dearborn- although it’s enough to make even our biggest vehicles suffer from feelings of inadequacy.
photo by Christian
Everybody around Detroit knows this, but that giant tire used to be a Ferris wheel at the 1964/1965 New York World’s Fair. Once the fair ended, it was shipped by rail to Allen Park to loom ominously over the freeway.
When you get up close, it’s not unusual to discover a few arrows sticking out of the sidewall, here and there; that would be some bowhuntin’ Michigan wiseacre trying to cause the world’s biggest blowout.
Penguin News: New Penguins at the Detroit Zoo
Presto, official penguin & mascot of Metro Delivery, would like to take this opportunity to welcome the new penguins in town, recently arrived from the defunct seabird exhibit at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago and currently chilling around 11 mile and Woodward.
Presto would like to assure the rockhoppers that they’ll find the Detroit Metro area to be a rockin’, hoppin’ and totally cool place to perch, and speaking of perch, he knows a terrific delivery company to deliver cratefuls of fish, if anyone’s feeling peckish after the long waddle from the West.