MyBikeLane

That UPS driver has $0 due in outstanding tickets. UPS pays a flat fee to the city every fee to cover all of it's parking tickets. Most of the tickets written to UPS trucks would be dismissed anyway because trucks making deliveries are actually allowed to double park in NYC.

#1 Sorry, but stopping, standing or parking in a bike lane is illegal except for emergency vehicles responding to an actual emergency (and when turning, parking or avoiding an obstacle in the road, with due caution). Double-parking in a bike lane for deliveries is illegal, regardless of any "deal" the City makes with violators.

The Finance Dept has a "Stipulated Fine" program which reduces the amount that frequent violators like UPS must pay.

Hopefully one day the City will drop that program, and instead dedicate exclusive curbside space to commercial deliveries. That would 1) Save companies like UPS money, 2) improve bicyclists' safety, and 3) remove parking spaces for private cars, further discouraging unnecessary driving.

I was not debating the legality but rather whether or not the driver owes the city any money.

UPS owes the city money. Unfortunately, it is only a fraction of the full ticket price. See the links section (in the footer of this site) for a document describing how UPS and Fedex have bullied the city into this.

So I tried to make a complaint via the UPS website and, typically, there is no place to make a complaint against a a driver who maybe driving erratically, parking like a douchebag, or whatever (see what happens when employees own stock in the company they work for).