I worked for ups for about 3 months before they laid off our entire shift. I already knew it was coming, more than half of what I did was unload trucks in Ohio that had been loaded in Texas and reload them for either Georgia or Kentucky. They eventually just started routing them all to the station in Kentucky, where they were already driving within 25 miles of to get to me in Ohio.
You can just cut the tape at the top along the fan, than peel the left over tape off the fan and start again. The tape on the bottom is for either a 5th filter or just a peice of cardboard across the bottom for stability.
Honestly I always felt it came from having to flee a communist dictatorship and developing a fear of anything that even remotely resembled socialist ideals for fear that it'd happen again.
If he didn't want to be attacked with a shovel he shouldn't have put on that uniform.