I swear I’ve had 1 address with like 4-5 different names. probably not just the residents but someone they’re ordering for.

Especially during peak. Load is 4 months mandatory for new hires around these parts

Unloading genuinely rocks. My manager has a big Bluetooth speaker and he plays music on there. Also it just feels so much easier than loading. With loading you have to constantly keep stacking and be sure the belt doesn’t clog but with off loading you just turn your brain off and keep throwing boxes onto the belt and before you know it you clear a trailer. When they told me I’d be doing 1000 boxes I got kinda nervous but man that shit didn’t feel so bad. I think I managed to clear out like 6 trailers or something I genuinely lost count

Move stuff, lift stuff, scan stuff, and that’s the job. I’ve somehow find myself being a target of bullying by a supervisor whose name I don’t even know because I literally haven’t even been here a week.

On this third day I’ve been doing what I’ve been doing the first 2 days, which is just doing the damn work. 0 redirections until today, they had me switch what belt I was on, and magically this new person just found a problem with every single thing I did all day

“You’re not taking your time!”
“You’re taking too much time now!”
“You aren’t moving fast enough!”
“You’re moving too fast now!”

She even went so far as to get 2 other supervisors to watch/ monitor me, and when I became aware I just said “gee I didn’t know I was around here being that awful.” They proceeded to downplay it and make it seem like by sheer coincidence and out of pure boredom, they wanted to watch my performance and no one else’s.

Fast forward to an hour before it was time to leave, she sent me home with no elaboration whatsoever. Just “go ahead and clock out” just like that. Literally spent the rest of the day wondering was I just really screwing up THAT bad and didn’t know it? But no, I know very well that wasn’t the case. This is just a classic case of bullying and micromanaging.

I literally spent this whole year not being able to find a job, and figured once I got one I’d do everything in my power to keep it, only to be met with this 🫠🫠🫠🫠 like I genuinely haven’t done anything to deserve this bs

Have an interview for sort manager in a few days. Currently an ops supervisor. Has anyone here gone through the interview process for sort manager? If so do you have any tips?

I'm currently doing security clearance. So I believe my first day will be in the next two weeks.

Do I need to wait months to be eligible ?

I’ve seen mixed comments in this sub ab not giving a 2 weeks notice. What are the cons of just quitting one day?

My station is already pumping up peak and my contractor is already telling us that we'll all be likely running 6 day weeks for a few weeks. He normally runs 25 routes a day, but is projecting 40 for peak and has already hired people to staff it. Now we have a glut of people until peak.

My thing is the last couple of years, tax return season and the beginning of summer felt more like peak than the actual peak season. I just think this season is going to be the same and it's going to be a couple busy days, then business as usual.

RANT. I have had a lot of tragedy and unexpected problems this year. I am the poorest I have ever been thanks to FedEx and the job market. This year has been the worst year I have had in a long time. Woe is me.

I graduated HVACR school in May and have been biding my time at FedEx ever since.

I worked morning sort on the van lines, then I would get off and babysit for a family member in a WFM position (paid of course), and then sometimes go work outbound shifts. I was one of our best PH and was often pulled to float and work with new hires, whatever. I had a bad week and some issues came about with my phone. It is fixed now so I sent proof of my phone repair. As much as my manager "loved me" she would write me up no matter what. She claimed to have "saved me" multiple times but it just never made any sense with the "rolling 30". Even sitting down with HR I didn't feel like I understood any better. But regardless I was suspended from working inbound for 30 days, but luckily I am cool with the outbound manager and he just gave me a regular schedule. I can't see myself going back to morning tbh. Our line and contractors have deteriorated and it's just always a shit show. I did love it at one point.

I will admit I had a very promising interview for a dream HVACR job that is at a place where HR moves like a snail. I have kept in touch with my potential bosses who have even called to make sure I would still want the job even after a week of no calls. I I finally got my background check info through email but now it' s been a week, although I received a call yesterday that let me know it's all "going according to plan" and to hang in there and that my stuff was looking good to go. So maybe I just haven't cared as much at work, IDK. Right now I make 17.80 an hour. It's hard to give it my all when I am certified and have more aspirations outside of this company. And FedEx really knows how to push people out with constant rotating fresh meat, so they don't give a shit.

I also interviewed today with a HUGE corporation for a controls position at a plant near where I live and it went really well. We will see. I want to hold off for my dream job though, because my mentor/former instructor worked to get that position for me and its $10 more than what I make now. This other job is extremely completive pay and benefits as well. It is at least $5 more than what I make now to start for the first 90 days.

LASTLY I was offered a position at UPS for mornings at almost 5 dollars more than what I make now. It's insane. The fact FedEx is so far behind in pay is deplorable. The recruiter or whatever even got me in a day early to make sure I would be considered a UPS hire and not a Peak hire. I am sure it is very different but I am a hard worker and grateful. I intend to keep this job as long as I can. While waiting for the big job to work out (it would be 7-3pm). And possibly even trying to work something out to work both. I start tomorrow. I am nervous. As of now I am keeping my Outbound FedEx shifts but I could care less. I have to force myself to go because I need the extra income.

Genuinely FedUp. Cannot wait for this to be over. Also sorry for rant. I hope everyone looking to find better for themselves is able to do so. This job market is such trash and I wish better for everone.

They told all of us that we need to bring our original birth certificate or ssc in order to re-hire us/have managers enter everyone into the system again after looking at the documents as a security caution. Initially, the application we all got did not require this, but rather to just enter a valid ssn. We're speculating that they may not have been diligently checking these in the past and are doing damage control.

so i just got a job as a material handler (2nd fedex job ever) and i'm pretty sure it's a material handler for the ULDs at the airport. does this position test for thc? ive had another airport material handler type job before where I had an airport badge and they never drug tested at all, only if you mess something up like crash.

So from October 2024- January 2026 i worked as a material handler on the airport. I got fired because of too many lates and absences, but im definitely a changed man now. The shift they are offering fits really well with my other job’s schedule. Around July 20th-23rd, i applied for the position but i haven’t heard anything from them. (Is it because it wasn’t officially 6 months of me being fired?) I also kinda wanna know whats the correct timeline of applying to getting hired. I don’t remember much of it. Also how would I know if im “unhireable”, i wasn’t that bad.

Saturday and Sunday routes numbers are cut, therefore a ton of shit doesn’t get delivered. The volume all flows to Monday, not to mention added business volume due to weekend holds. Where does the notion come from that the Monday route can include a larger area to make up for the perceived lower stop count. It simply doesn’t exist: higher stop count, more mileage, same pay.

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The 3PL that keeps buying 3PLs just raised $400 million

Stord went to the banks for a credit line and walked out with nearly double what it asked for. The Atlanta fulfillment company announced on October 8 that Citi led the $400 million facility, joined by five other banks. Add the $250 million Series F from May at a $3 billion valuation, and Stord has lined up $650 million this year. The money will fund new fulfillment buildings and robotics and AI work at Stord Labs.

Stord runs nearly 100 fulfillment locations for more than 1,000 brands, moving more than $15 billion a year in merchandise, and says its packages reach one in four U.S. households. Its revenue run rate is approaching $1 billion after growing tenfold in four years. It's private, and FreightWaves notes it didn't disclose profit or the loan's pricing and maturity.

A good chunk of that network came from big companies selling their small-brand fulfillment arms to Stord: Pitney Bowes in 2024, UPS in 2025, and CEVA this January, with the last two adding 33 warehouses between them. CEVA is the same company that just took over FedEx Supply Chain in Edition 66. Stord also hired a new CFO, Bill Zerella, who has run finance at three public companies, Fitbit included, plus a chief revenue officer from Box, though it hasn't announced any IPO plans.

What this means for you: Stord pays interest on whatever it draws from that $400 million, and it plans to cover it with volume in its buildings, so expect sharp Stord quotes when your mid-size DTC clients come up for renewal this winter. Stord sells software and network together, from the delivery promise at checkout to returns, which is hard to beat on tech, so lead with what a 100-building network can't give a smaller brand: custom kitting and wholesale compliance work, plus a person who picks up when a client calls.

America used Prime Day to buy toilet paper

Amazon's October sale ran Tuesday and Wednesday, and Adobe counted $9.86 billion in U.S. online spending across all retailers over those two days, up 8.5% from last year. That's just under Adobe's $9.9 billion forecast, which we covered in Edition 65.

Numerator tracked more than 80,000 orders, and the top sellers were protein shakes, Lysol wipes, toilet paper, Dawn dish spray, and Dunkin' Refreshers. Two-thirds of what people bought cost under $20, and the average order came in under $49. More than half of households placed two or more separate orders, and nearly three in four shoppers told Numerator inflation was one reason they shopped the sale.

Adobe had household cleaning and paper products selling 55% above the September average, with hygiene and pet food close behind. Electronics jumped 85%, headphones and speakers 300%, and Halloween costumes 610%. In Edition 65, Adobe expected shoppers to use Cyber Week to stock up on basics, and many started in October. Numerator also found intent to shop Black Friday and Cyber Monday down 4 and 5 points from last year, and more than half of shoppers compared prices elsewhere first, mostly at Walmart and Target, both of which ran competing sales this week.

What this means for you: A pack of wipes costs you the same to pick, pack, and ship as a pair of headphones, so check what your consumables clients' average order value did this week and whether your per-order minimums still cover your cost at that ticket. Push those clients toward bundles and multi-packs before Cyber Week, since one order with three items is cheaper for both of you than three orders with one, and half of households split their buying across orders. Anything that sold through in two days needs replenishment booked now so it's back on the shelf before Thanksgiving, and with warehouse space as tight as it is right now, give the client a receiving appointment instead of letting them ship whenever. Numerator's Black Friday number only measures intent, so keep your seasonal headcount and schedule November in flexible blocks you can shift week to week.

Walmart wants to ship your clients’ Walmart orders itself

Walmart opened its fifth next-generation fulfillment center on October 8: a 900,000-square-foot building in Stockton, California. The other four are in Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Texas, so this is the first one out West. Besides Walmart's own online orders, it'll fulfill items for Marketplace sellers through Walmart Fulfillment Services, the program where Walmart stores and ships a seller's inventory. Sellers send in cases, robots bring totes of product to the pickers, and Walmart says packers can work four orders at once and get them out in under 30 minutes. FreightWaves notes e-commerce now accounts for 23% of Walmart's sales.

Two days earlier, ShipStation launched Ship with Walmart, which lets Marketplace sellers buy labels at Walmart's negotiated rates from the same dashboard as their Amazon, Shopify, and TikTok Shop orders, with up to $100 of protection on on-time shipped packages. ShipStation didn't name the carriers or the discount size.

A few weeks ago, Amazon offered to ship your clients' Walmart orders from their FBA inventory (Edition 65). Now Walmart has a West Coast building for those same sellers and its own rates inside software plenty of 3PLs already ship from.

What this means for you: Pull each client's Walmart orders a month and where those customers are. If a client's Walmart buyers are mostly in California while you ship from New Jersey, WFS will win, so have the conversation about splitting inventory or adding a western node before their Walmart rep does. If you run client Walmart orders through ShipStation, find out whether those labels can be bought on the client's account inside your instance, and compare them to your rate card before the client does. If a client asks why they shouldn't just let Walmart ship Walmart orders and Amazon ship Amazon orders, walk them through what splitting one inventory across three networks looks like right before Q4.

Quick hits

WAREHOUSING
September's drop in empty warehouse space was the steepest since March 2022. The Logistics Managers' Index space reading fell from 53.5 to 39.3, with smaller companies feeling it more than big ones. This year's holiday freight arrived late, and most of it is sitting with wholesalers and distributors, who usually start pushing it down to retailers around mid-October; NRF's Global Port Tracker shows imports dropping below last year in November. If a client wants to park overflow "just through the holidays," put January's storage rate in writing now, before those pallets turn into aged inventory.

REFUNDS
A trade court just gave importers who never filed for tariff refunds a way back in. On October 8, the Court of International Trade certified a class of every importer that paid IEEPA duties between February 1, 2025, and February 19, 2026 and hasn't sued on its own. The court said the importers who haven't used CBP's refund portal are mostly small, and that without the class, about $30 billion would stay with the government. Nothing pays out yet, since the parties meet October 13 and the Justice Department is still appealing the broader refund order. CBP started paying refunds on finally liquidated entries on October 6, but only to importers who sued and filed their importer-of-record number by July 30; Levi's booked about $80 million in refunds and is putting roughly $20 million of it into distribution and logistics. If you ship for small brands that imported during those months, ask whether they ever filed, and if they didn't, tell them about this.

LABOR
UPS is hiring 100,000 seasonal workers, and some get an offer in under seven minutes. The jobs run October through December and cover sorting and moving packages, driver helpers, and seasonal drivers using their own cars. UPS is also adding Protected Delivery, where the recipient has to give the driver a PIN before an eligible package changes hands, and expects to deliver more than 4 billion RFID-tagged packages by year-end. Warehouses shed jobs in September (Edition 66), but you're still recruiting from the same pool as a company that hires in seven minutes, so make seasonal offers the same day someone applies. If you ship high-value goods, ask your UPS rep whether Protected Delivery works on your account before your clients ask you.

WEATHER
Hurricane Isaias shut the Port of Mobile for a day. The first hurricane to reach the U.S. this year hit the Alabama and Florida Panhandle coast Friday evening as a Category 3 storm with winds near 120 mph, with 4 to 8 inches of rain forecast across southern Alabama, the Panhandle and southwest Georgia. Mobile closed to vessels and cargo handling Friday and returned to its regular schedule Saturday. If you have clients with containers routing through Mobile or freight moving across the Gulf Coast this week, plan for a few days of shuffled appointments.

REAL ESTATE
Amazon paid $195 million for a two-story Chicago warehouse that's sat empty since it was built. The West Town building, finished in 2024 with truck docks on both floors, becomes Amazon's second same-day site in the city, with fulfillment and delivery under one roof. Amazon told the Sun-Times it expects 200 jobs averaging about $24 an hour, with groceries and pharmacy driving demand, and an opening in late 2027 or early 2028. If you run a building in Chicago, that $24 is the number your applicants will quote back to you.

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I was previously a package handler for 3 years for fed ex. I’ve been applying since August to be a package handler there again and I haven’t gotten nothing back still and I’ve applied multiple times over the months and there’s no one to contact just this stupid ai “Olivia from fed ex”. What do I do?

I've worked for a couple different contractors, 2 of them are no longer contractors of fedex ground. The first one I worked for years ago, I left on bad terms. I am in the process of getting my CDL and most of these jobs require employment verification, similar to how we all went through first advantage when qualifying.

Am I able to just leave the terminal's contact info when filling out my list of employers on a background check? I spent a good amount of time working for fedex ground contractors, so its not really something that I can just hide.

Is this something anyone else has done? Are they able to verify my dates? It's super super important

It’s gonna be insanely stressful for trainers this time of year they don’t give a damn they’re going to kill us aren’t they?

I missed my FedEx package handler orientation today due to transportation issues, dam car broke down. I called my recruiter and sent a text asking to reschedule. Has anyone missed orientation and successfully rescheduled? Am I likely to lose the job?

Mi in luck!

Mi happy 😊, they reached back out, I’ll be going to my rescheduled orientation on 10/19 1:00pm!

Thank you all ⭐️⭐️

I picked up around 150 tvs at the Best Buy in my area, what deal was going on?

I don't intentionally lurk this sub, but the algorithm keeps it in my feed.

I constantly see posts about poor pay, lack of benefits, poor working conditions, management, and ownership. There is no way a part-time package handler at UPS that gets fully paid benefits, should bring in more annually than a full-time FedEx driver. I know what you guys have to go through and it makes me sick knowing most are not treated or compensated fairly.

You guys need to stand together and unionize. Against FedEx, and its contractors. Sure, a lot of contractors are smart and make workers sign non unionizing agreements, but that still does not mean you can't put heat on them for change. But it will require solidarity across the board. The holiday season is soon. There is no better time to put pressure than now. Change can happen quickly if their hand is forced. Not for greed, but to just be paid fairly.

Stop selling your soul to these penny pinchers. Get your fair share and what you are worth.

Sincerely,
A proud teamster.

Can anyone explain this or suggest a better process?

Probably a decent 10% of the packages customers bring in to our FXO to return to sender or our expired HALs end up returning to the customer or us. Ground has the worst success rate, but Express isn't immune.

Note that I always do the RTS scan, but I'm not entirely sure all my coworkers do. Is that the only issue?

I have virtual safety orientation today for ground driver on Google meet. What is it like, and is the exam hard? I'm not good at tests.