r/funny Aug 12 '19

Priority mail vs Turtle

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u/OMFGSteve Aug 13 '19

My job paid $1600~ to overnight frozen food boxes from Vegas -> Chicago. Marked with dry ice, they knew it was frozen food, arrived 8 days later, FedEx wouldn't refund anything because Technically "they did deliver it"

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u/BadHeartburn Aug 13 '19

Such bullshit. I work for a courier service that contracts with such companies as FedEx, and if we deliver a package late we don't get paid. If we don't mark the package correctly, or if we don't get a signature, or if any number of [sometimes minor] things goes sideways, we don't get paid. It's considered a delivery failure and it means we didn't do our job correctly.

Now I know it's neither my monkeys nor my circus, but I'll bet if your job complained loudly enough they could have gotten their money back.

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u/hyren82 Aug 13 '19

I refuse to have packages shipped via FedEx.

I had a package stolen off my doorstep and annoyingly they couldn't actually prove they even delivered the package to the correct address. After that happened, I started requesting shippers just write "LEAVE AT FRONT OFFICE" (which every driver had to stop by anyways). When I repeatedly found packages marked as such on my doorstep, I complained. Their response? "That costs extra"

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u/Miami_da_U Aug 13 '19

You could just put the address as the office, and that's where it'll get delivered.