--- title: UPS Worker 'Hides' Package in Hilarious Viral Photo description: A photo shared by a Texas woman on Facebook proves that true hilarity can ensue if you give a UPS worker specific instructions to follow. canonical: https://time.com/5702588/ups-worker-hides-package/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-10-16T20:22:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:00:54.195Z og:title: Woman Shares Hilarious Photo of UPS Worker's Attempt to 'Hide' Package og:description: And it's delivery service at its finest og:url: https://time.com/5702588/ups-worker-hides-package/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltda13727c0f88082b/698a0466656a3f6156bd9125/ups-hides-package.jpg?branch=production&width=510&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 510 og:image:height: 287 og:image:alt: UPS-Hides-Package og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Woman Shares Hilarious Photo of UPS Worker's Attempt to 'Hide' Package twitter:description: And it's delivery service at its finest twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltda13727c0f88082b/698a0466656a3f6156bd9125/ups-hides-package.jpg?branch=production&width=510&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Comical Photo of UPS Worker's Earnest Attempt to 'Hide' Package Is Delivery Service At Its Finest > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 16, 2019 8:22 PM UTC  Susan Sheldon/EyeEm—Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 16, 2019 8:22 PM UTC It’s always a good day when a [delivery person](http://money.com/money/5478747/amazon-is-paying-people-20-an-hour-to-deliver-packages-using-their-own-cars-and-the-competition-is-cutthroat/) goes above and beyond to meet your needs. But it turns out it can be a hilarious one when they purposefully don’t. A photo recently shared by Texas woman Ebony Freeman on Facebook proves that true hilarity can ensue if you give a [UPS](https://time.com/4863239/ups-dogs-facebook-page/) worker specific instructions to follow. The shot in question shows a delivered package very obviously sticking out from both ends of a [doormat](time.com doormat) that reads “Please hide packages from husband.” “Oh my god look! The UPS guy actually hid it under the rug!” Freeman captioned the post, which has been shared over 49,000 times and liked nearly 8,000 since it went up on Oct. 8. Freeman tagged her friend Amanda Harper in the post, who [_Good Morning America_](https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/story/postal-worker-hilariously-honors-wifes-request-hide-amazon-66269188) reports bought her the doormat. “I instantly laughed and the first thing I did was send \[a picture\] to Amanda before posting it on Facebook,” Freeman told _GMA_. “I had no clue it was going to get that much traction.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5702588/ups-worker-hides-package/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5702588/ups-worker-hides-package/"},"headline":"Comical Photo of UPS Worker's Earnest Attempt to 'Hide' Package Is Delivery Service At Its Finest","datePublished":"2019-10-16T20:22:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:00:54.195Z","description":"Now that's customer care","url":"https://time.com/5702588/ups-worker-hides-package/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","UPS","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltda13727c0f88082b/698a0466656a3f6156bd9125/ups-hides-package.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltda13727c0f88082b/698a0466656a3f6156bd9125/ups-hides-package.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"UPS-Hides-Package","caption":"","creditText":"Susan Sheldon/EyeEm—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5702588/ups-worker-hides-package/","name":"Comical Photo of UPS Worker's Earnest Attempt to 'Hide' Package Is Delivery Service At Its Finest"}}]}] ```