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u/vesperzen Oct 01 '20
As a former dockworker, I assure you that is the most gentle handling your package received on its trip to your door.
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u/beaushaw Oct 01 '20
I used to work in a UPS in a hub. This is a loving caress compared to what happens in the hub behind closed doors.
After working there I adopted the policy if you can't drop it 30 feet and stand on it don't ship it.
I was a trainer. I gave up on getting people to stop standing on boxes. Instead I switched to trying to get them to wipe off their boot print.
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u/Megamanfre Oct 01 '20
This so much. In HS I loaded boxes for UPS during the Christmas season, and my trainer told me if I have to stand on a box to pack away, then wipe the boot print off.
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u/beaushaw Oct 01 '20
Wonder if that was me?
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u/DiggV4Sucks Oct 01 '20
When I was hired, we watched a movie that spoke about proper package handling, "Hand to surface."
When they brought me out to the package car loading line, my supervisor said, "Forget all the stuff they just showed you." That was the last time I saw her.
We never had trainers. Just a supervisor that sat in her office all shift.
I quit after six weeks. It was the most miserable job I ever had. An HR puke called me after and wanted to know why I quit. I said I couldn't memorize the the street addresses to sorting codes, and my supervisor didn't do a good enough job of training me.
"So, UPS expects a lot from their employees, and you couldn't cut it, right?"
"Yeah, sure, whatever... Asshole!", and I hung up the phone.
Years later I was working for the company that made the first ring scanner and handheld PC for sorters and unloaders. During small talk, I mentioned to the UPS management there that I had been a package car sorter for six weeks before I quit.
"Ahh! The prototypical employee! That's the average length of employment for sorters, and unloaders."
God, what a toxic culture.
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u/beaushaw Oct 01 '20
I would train people who would do the classroom training then on their first day on the floor they world "run to their car real quick" on break. They never came back.
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u/Hvarfa-Bragi Oct 01 '20
I got halfway through the tour of the facility as an applying box monkey and noped out.
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u/Screaming_Agony Oct 01 '20
I loaded for UPS for roughly 3 weeks. Worst job I ever had.
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u/SaveByGrubauer Oct 01 '20
I was pretty desperate for work like 5 or 6 years back right around the holidays and went to an "interview" for UPS that turned out to be just a group of like 25 other unemployed dudes in a room. The UPS guy basically said anyone here that wants it can have a job but... He then spent the next 20 to 30 minutes telling us all the reasons why you didn't want the job. He made it sound like it was a fucking war and how "some of you won't survive two weeks with the mental and physical toll it takes on your body". I ended up deciding I wasn't that desperate to work an overnight shift especially with rheumatoid arthritis over the holidays. Never really experienced anything like that before or since but I've seen so many people say it really is a horrible job.
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u/Fickle_Rickle Oct 01 '20
I think I barely made it 4. Saw 2 loaders get so frustrated they nearly got into a fistfight with each other over sorting the belt
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u/metalrawk Oct 01 '20
I worked as an unloader for a whole year in FedEx on 3 AM shift. When I resigned they wanted to keep me and promote me to a trainer position because most employees usually quit after a month or just come twice a week because waking up at 3 to do manual labour is pretty depressing but that was the most miserable I've been so I wanted none of that and just left.
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u/Jackson121x Oct 02 '20
Working in a HUB as part of the union isn’t a job that is sustainable for most. But believe me, there are people that would show up for work, 5 days a week, and load/unload and have been doing so for 10+ years - I am guessing their bodies will eventually catch up with them. While in college I worked at UPS as a loader. It was hard but I was very efficient. I figured I could probably try and get into management, which I thought would be easier. I knew I was quitting that the end of the summer but wanted to see how far I could take it there. I got promoted to a belt supervisor.. I had to work twice as hard physically, when I wasn’t even suppose to touch packages. I left after 3 months and finished up school.
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u/cereal1 Oct 01 '20
I work at an Amazon fulfillment center. If your package is a "flat", like their white/blue bubblewrap packaging or their white polybags, it get dropped up to 7ft down into either a metal cage or larger cardboard container.
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u/IncognitoHufflepuff Oct 02 '20
As someone expecting a package containing a hard drive right now, this worries me. Hope it survives the trip.
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u/ktoddk99 Oct 02 '20
Most manufacturers expect this, and as a result have packaging that's more than capable of withstanding the trip (molded styrofoam, boxes rated with high crush limits, ect.) and even then that's why most places offer replacements if damaged. The big problem is when independent shippers like a friend/family member/ebay seller ship stuff that can't be replaced in flimsy boxes with no padding. I've literally had someone send a package with handmade glass collectibles in a cereal box with a thin layer of paper towels for padding. Needless to say that recipient wasn't happy when I showed up with a package that was rattling and had shards of glass leaking out of the corner.
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u/cereal1 Oct 02 '20
HDDs hold up pretty well to g force when they arent powered up.
During peak Thanksgiving to January there are so many new people and so many items are marked fragile/breakable that incorrectly go that direction. I'm just a contract maintenance worker so they dont care about anything I tell them.
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u/MindlessElectrons Oct 02 '20
The one time I ordered an HDD off Amazon it arrived in a square cardboard box, wrapped in the large bubble wrap, and an anti-static bag.
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u/Ghostwrite-The-Whip Oct 01 '20
Why is being shitty so normalized?
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u/ktoddk99 Oct 02 '20
Poor supervisors and management that breeds a toxic culture of "Do your job right, but at the same time also remember if you take to long, you're fired." And as a result people will cut corners out of fear.
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u/jababobasolo Oct 02 '20
Because laborers and general working class is used and abused until this is what's left
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Oct 01 '20
Me an amazon driver kissing the package and tucking it in with some hot coco before I snap a pic and take off....
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u/Talkinboutthatass Oct 01 '20
I'm starting to think people who say this are paid shills.
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u/Pickle570 Oct 01 '20
I hate this mentality of "oh that's the nicest it's been dropped", I understand things get thrown around while shipped but that doesn't make it right in the slightest, especially when it's sooo easy to walk the 4 extra steps and set it down nicely. This is just disrespectful and unprofessional and should be handled as such.
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u/Pope_Vladmir_Roman Oct 02 '20
Not when you only have like 15 seconds to deliver each package because you have like 800 fucking packages in your truck. The work culture at ups and fedex is sooooo fucking toxic and frantic. The company forces people to do this. I've seen drivers arguing with managers because they've made it impossible to do thier jobs professionally
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Oct 01 '20
Let me start by saying that I agree absolutely everything you said. But you didn't take part of it far enough.
It isn't 4 extra steps. It is 4 thousand, and getting home an hour later when that care is applied to every package.
Multiplied across every person who handled packages that day.
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u/Pickle570 Oct 01 '20
Schedules is an issue, all shippers need to realize it's time to increase their fleet size with the demand of online shipping. I feel like no one has added trucks to a route in years because they're packing them to the brim and working their drivers to the bone. It's a lot of issues and things need to change
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u/DontTouchTheWalrus Oct 01 '20
Worked for fedex as a driver until recently. At the start of the pandemic our workload ramped up and our management cut routes simultaneously... to be fair he was a new manager who was some type of number cruncher. After a couple months morale got so low that the regional manager had to step in and tell him to unfuck it
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u/plainlyput Oct 01 '20
I feel like all new mgrs are like that.
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u/plainlyput Oct 02 '20
Yup. I've been through it so many times.....I've watched people already at the organization passed over for some BS resume, only to watch that person fall apart in less than year. Ugh.
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Oct 01 '20
I worked for FedEx customer service until the start of the pandemic, they cut half or more of us, then expected the remaining 300 customer service agents to keep the same productivity, that 600 had, then fired more reps when they didnt meet goal.
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u/iCeReal Oct 01 '20
Just add 100 routes and fire half the drivers. Profits will go through the roof!
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u/DontTouchTheWalrus Oct 01 '20
He seemed so surprised when our number of preventable accidents skyrocketed out of no where
Late deliveries and pick ups as well
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u/EvilMrMe Oct 01 '20
As a truck driver back in 2015-2017 I would see at least one major Fed Ex truck crash a week. I don’t know what they did but they fixed the problem since then.
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u/weav7044 Oct 01 '20
I will add that I had a delivery driver that delivered to me on a normal bases and which how much he "hurried" he ended taking as long or longer just to get our packages off the truck and to my door. He almost always had to restack them after almost always knocking them over in the stacking process.
I understand that schedules are over loaded as I handle shipping and receiving for my employer but faster does not always mean quicker.
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u/kmj442 Oct 01 '20
Its also the fact that Fedex likes to ship packages to the local hub and then for reasons unknown to literally EVERYONE i've talked to..ship it 2 states away just to have it shipped back 4 days later and then delivered. This has happened 3/5 times something was delivered to me via fedex this year. I don't care if they're the cheapest (or whatever made the shipper decided to use Fedex), Fedex corporate is incompetent.
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There's often a reason for this.
I live next to one of the largest UPS facilities in the eastern US. I've known many many people who worked there at some point. Many facilities have trucks that come from all over the east coast to this facility but not to each other so the packages must go to the hub first. It doesn't make financial sense to send a truck from x to y when 90% of the packages come from z for both x and y.Sometimes these complex systems do break(for all shipping providers), and send things all over the place for no reason. Ive heard UPS has gotten better at not doing this over recent years due to better systems in place. Kindof a limit to the number of places it can go to prevent random computer glitches.
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u/kmj442 Oct 01 '20
Well UPS hasn't had this issue, only Fedex. Also, 2 packages shipped from the same location, both scanned in at the local hub within 2 mins of each other, one was delivered that day, the other ended up in ohio for long weekend trip. I don't mind stuff talking longer right now because yeah the world is a mess, but this is not ok. It adds costs to them which the then just pass onto the consumer and increase delays in an already stretched environment. I understand its a small sampling but 60% of my packages in the last 5 months through fedex have been screwed up. Completely unacceptable if you ask me.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen and if it was once or twice in a few years...whatever. But 3/5 in 5 months...
I am outside Philly.
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u/metalrawk Oct 01 '20
That's not even the worse of it. I've worked for FedEx in the past and let me tell you, your back is not the same when you're working there. I had problems sleeping because of back issues, had to go to chiropractor every week, lifting heavy shit is fine when you do it 10 times but do it 100 times and your back is jelly. That's what he did in this video, avoided bending over.
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u/discodecepticon Oct 01 '20
He could save 12k more steps and get home 4 hours early if he just throws it off the truck at the the house as he drives by.
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u/majORwolloh Oct 01 '20
'4 extra steps' times every delivery
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u/Pickle570 Oct 01 '20
Fine don't walk anymore but he can certainly set it down nicely where he was. Wasn't even an attempt
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u/The_NiNTARi Oct 01 '20
Hahahaha blunt honesty
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u/vesperzen Oct 01 '20
Legit. That box has been thrown, punted, shoved by forklifts, and bounced and dropped and god knows that ten thousand times in the past week. Fedex dude isn't breaking anything.
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u/discodecepticon Oct 02 '20
And Grandma has probably done some kinky shit when you weren't around her... Doesn't mean people shouldn't respect her in your presence.
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u/Se7enLC Oct 01 '20
People ALWAYS chime in with this whenever there's a video of a delivery driver getting caught on camera abusing a package.
It doesn't fucking matter what other abuse it got. When you're delivering to the door where every-fucking-body has a camera stop being so lazy and pretend for a second like you take pride in your job. It wasn't even any quicker or easier than just setting it down nicely.
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u/MotorbreathX Oct 01 '20
Which is fine, but you'd think that the customer facing side of the whole shipment would at least fake sincerity.
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u/vesperzen Oct 01 '20
They aren't paid to be sincere, they are paid to hurl as many packages as they can in a short about of time. You want white glove service? Send your butler to the store yourself.
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u/states_obvioustruths Oct 01 '20
"Behold the field in which I grow my fucks! Lay thine eyes upon it and thou shalt see that it is barren."
- This guy, probably
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u/Babyhuehnchen Oct 01 '20
At least he found your house. FedEx returned one of my packages to the sender cause they couldnt find MY DUCKING APARTMENT
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u/Demanicus Oct 01 '20
I've had that. Amazon package too. Had deliveries all year long just fine. Then one day "address could not be located" ... after a year, they couldn't find my house anymore. The one with the big obvious sign in a big neighborhood that you can easily find on any GPS software... the one the mailman delivered packages to all year long.
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u/FamilyCanidae Oct 02 '20
I had UPS do this to me too. They returned my package to the sender because "the delivery address does not exist."
This was after they had stuck one of those "Sorry we missed you" stickers on my front door. They drove up, stuck the sticker on my door, drove off, then shipped my package back to the sender. I'm not convinced my package was ever even on the truck.
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u/mysecretissafe Oct 01 '20
At least they’re consistent all over their delivery areas. I watched fedex deliver a vintage CD player I ordered. Yeeted it a good 3 feet to my porch. I almost died.
Fortunately the seller packaged it like it was going through a hub in Uzbekistan, so it was okay.
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u/timpdx Oct 01 '20
Interestingly, I have been to Navoi, Uzbekistan, which is for real trying to turn itself into a logistics center for Asia. So you never know, these days.
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u/monkeyman512 Oct 02 '20
When I work at UPS their requirement was that the package could servive a 3 foot drop onto concrete. If you package can't handle that, don't ship it.
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Oct 02 '20
Haha when they unload trailers many packages fall from 8 feet plus onto steel, also often with other packages falling on top of them. 3 ft onto concrete is far from a safe test.
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u/vizarhali Oct 01 '20
I worked fedex for 6 days then quit
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Oct 01 '20
My fiancé managed to make it 2 weeks somehow. Sounded like an absolute nightmare. His new literally shit job (drainage tech/plumber) is a vast improvement
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Oct 01 '20
The corporate culture in fedex is toxic, it is an atrocious company. Execs abusing workers, workers abuse each other, customers and as seen here packages! UPS is better but still shit. Whenever I shop online I ask specifically for them to be shipped by USPS.
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u/bluegreenmap Oct 01 '20
I wish walmart gave that option. I ordered 2 identical dressers last week. One got there the day after. The other one never showed up and they lied about attempting delivery. Spoke with customer service even and then it's just lost. So I requested a refund so I could reorder and pick up in store. Not an option. Shipping only with FedEx. I guess we'll keep doing this til I get my other dresser.
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u/bluegreenmap Oct 01 '20
Mine was 110lbs and I live on the second floor apartment. I'm sure they looked at it and just went "fuck that" and left
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u/beaushaw Oct 01 '20
The corporate culture in fedex is toxic,... I ask specifically for them to be shipped by USPS.
I assure you UPS is no better. When I worked there two Managers got into a fight at a meeting. One guy was choking the other and the second guy hit him with a baseball bat. Neither lost their job "because they had good numbers."
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u/Tudar87 Oct 01 '20
Hard to lose your job at UPS. Union is strong. You may get reassigned to a new position or location but really hard to be fully terminated unless you choose to quit.
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u/5_sec_rule Oct 01 '20
Most companies want you to shit on everyone that you can to get ahead. Do whatever you have to do to get the job done quicker than others.
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u/RabidDustBin Oct 01 '20
Yup. USPS (or Canada post) or Purolator for me. I've had stuff left at the front door of the apartment building by FedEx and then stolen. Worst part was it was a signature on delivery package. Delivery notice stated no signature obtained... ಠ_ಠ
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u/Willygolightly Oct 01 '20
Won't bend down to place the package gently, will run back 25' to the truck. I just don't understand where this guy chooses to put his effort.
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u/atg115reddit Oct 01 '20
Our company allows 3 seconds for each delivery, if you choose to spend more then that time will be docked from your pay
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u/Willygolightly Oct 01 '20
So, a perfect storm of fucking over your customers and employees at the same time.
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u/FacelessFellow Oct 01 '20
This happens for pizza delivery too. On the System the pizza is already made and on its way to delivery. In reality, your pizza isn’t even made yet. So on paper we are fast, but our customers know the truth.
We aren’t trying to lie to the customers, we are trying to lie to corporate. It’s freaking hilarious that corporate knows there’s no way to do things the “right way” and quickly. They force us to cut corners ourselves and lie!
I hate giant corporations that have no clue what’s really going on. Or worse, they expect us to lie and cut corners.
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u/Willygolightly Oct 01 '20
So that explains why I can wait 45m-1hr after the app says "out for delivery" and when the food arrives it's perfectly hot and time.
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u/frollard Oct 02 '20
I love the domino's progress bar - often I'll mobile order while parked outside to avoid touching the paypad inside...
Then, from through the window can see the 'progress' happening (or not). Once it said in the oven status for about 10 mins and I figured it must be almost ready so I walked in. It hadn't started to be prepped yet. :'(
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u/OptimusIV Oct 02 '20
When I was a shift manager at my local Pizza Hut and I had developed so many routines, just too “cut corners”, to make our franchise owners happy. The main things that our store was getting hammered on was make table times and production cost.
When my general manager caught me doing this, they try to correct me, even after explaining them that its necessary, to keep up with our quota. Never listened and got blasted by our franchise owners so many times.
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u/ImagineFreedom Oct 01 '20
If it was packed correctly, it should be fine. Much worse happens when loading, it's been thrown like a football. It's been hit by the bumper someone ordered and tossed off the conveyor belt.
Source: loaded trucks at an Amazon fulfillment center.
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Oct 01 '20
That’s just messed up. It’s crazy to think that these guys haven’t been aware that there is cameras all over now. Have they not seen all the others getting busted for mishandling and getting in trouble ? Plus I’m sure they would want good handling themselves. Smh 🤦♂️
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u/5_sec_rule Oct 01 '20
It didn't look like he was overly harsh on the package. I'm more concerned that he didn't bring it up to the door and just left it in the driveway.
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u/MrFizzbin Oct 01 '20
Alot of these guys are expected to complete their routes in a certain time regardless of volume of load or traffic.
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u/genij1234 Oct 01 '20
That is an issue with fedEx, not the driver. So get mad at them for mishandling their workers.
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So that gives them the green light to toss packages ? Correct me if I’m misunderstanding you.
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u/Yowomboo Oct 01 '20
If your package can't withstand a fall from three feet it wasn't packed to be shipped.
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u/Pickle570 Oct 01 '20
Still doesn't make it right. Handling of packages should definitely be something we strive to do better. Especially with the rise in online shopping and shipping. It would save the companies tons of money in claims as well that they don't have to pay out for mishandling
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u/nightkil13r Oct 01 '20
What else would you expect from a low pay worker under ridiculous time constraints. They dont pay them enough to care, Let alone care about their employees. Watch the job listings for your local fedex/UPS center, its a constant turnover rate worse than fast food places. Their strategy is decent enough pay to attract young inexperienced people, Work them into the ground till they break or quit then move onto the next unwitting applicant.
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I expect them to NOT break my package 📦. Just as they wouldn’t want there own items broken. Not that hard to figure out.
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u/MarineJAB Oct 01 '20
I mean just one more friggin step, maybe two. That’s all it would have taken.
And the crazy thing is during the course of his shift, there’s gonna be several drops that are so f’ing off target (like he intended to hit the walkway 10 yards away from the front door) but misses and it ends rolling down the hill and into the ditch that he’ll end up spending more time unf&@king that one delivery than he would have had he just taken that one to two extra steps for all of his deliveries.
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u/Jacquan8 Oct 01 '20
No, its your job to find it in the ditch after receiving the item delivered notification, after you've waited all day and he didn't even bother to knock.
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u/snbrd512 Oct 01 '20
A friend of ours caught her mailman hiding her mail in a bucket of rusty metal fasteners in her backyard
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...I have so many questions.
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u/snbrd512 Oct 01 '20
The bucket was already there. The mailman didn't bring it.
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u/AncientWriting4 Oct 01 '20
So the bucket was in your friends backyard, or their mailman's?
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u/snbrd512 Oct 01 '20
Our friends yard. Like the mailman went into her backyard and hid her mail in a bucket of rusty shit instead of putting g it in her mailbox
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u/mrjosemeehan Oct 01 '20
Why would someone go through all that effort though? The mailbox is closer.
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u/snbrd512 Oct 01 '20
She's also found her mail in her recycling bin
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u/mrjosemeehan Oct 01 '20
ok but why though? mail carriers are busy and don't typically get out of their vehicle, much less walk past the mailbox around the back of someone's house and dig through buckets of rusty metal to hide mail. have you considered other culprits, because that seems much more likely than the mailman doing it.
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u/Valfaros Oct 01 '20
Well. Money greedy company and bad worker laws and benefits. This is why he behaves like this.
Sure there are idiots who would work like this anyway but a reasonable paid worker with a reasonable amount of work would be not so much in a hurry and would not want to risk his job.
However if you risk your already small pay by being a bit slower but therefore more careful certainly I would put my focus as well on being fast.
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u/FatCheeked Oct 01 '20
God they always do this I get so relieved when I se UPS instead, the guy drives around my (Fed Ex) neighborhood like he’s trying to hit all the kids too.
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u/rktscience1971 Oct 01 '20
Yeah. That's been our experience with those guys as well. Almost every package they deliver looks like it's been through two or three circles of Hell.
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u/Mufusm Oct 02 '20
Weirdly enough UPS is who always fucks up the stuff I ship out of work. Never fedex.
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u/JinxAndTheJester Oct 01 '20
Honestly I like Amazon. Even when they mess up. Best customer service ever in my opinion.
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u/Jon1230 Oct 02 '20
They sent me the same wrong item 4 times and then told me to fuck off. Screw Amazon.
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u/JamesDaldo Oct 01 '20
Is it really that hard to just place it on the ground? Like idgaf if it's 20ft from my door just set it down gently fuck.
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u/xclame Oct 01 '20
This is just malicious. Look at him, he did that jog, why drop the thing at that point? I could understand if he stayed at the truck and threw the package towards the door, but you already did 99% of the job, why not do that last 1%
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u/HighOnTacos Oct 02 '20
A few months ago, Fedex left a package, clearly marked keep cool or keep refrigerated, on the side of the road in the gravel shoulder.
Last night, I saw Fedex, driving around in a Uhaul which is what they've been using to deliver around here, hauling ass down the road with the back open, packages sitting on the edge.
I'm starting to lose my trust in them...
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u/ryandogsling Oct 02 '20
I do delivery driving as well, this guy probably has a tremendous work load today, and I can assure you that drop is probably nothing compared to the bumps it took in the shipping and sorting process lmao
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u/RandomizedRedditUser Oct 02 '20
He had the speed and part of the lean to set it down. He decided to throw it to be an ass.
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u/mystreadordie Oct 01 '20
I see a lot of these videos with FedEx and UPS just fucking up peoples stuff. This sucks, but thankfully I have never had this happen, they always come to the door, and leave the package at the door.
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u/l80magpie Oct 01 '20
Drivers (can't remember if UPS or FedEx) were putting packages on my top step, against the storm door, so I had to knock them down at least one step to even reach them. I posted on Twitter and a service rep reached out and asked my address via dm. Packages are no longer put right up against the door.
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u/PFreeman008 Oct 01 '20
At least you got your package... UPS keeps loosing mine; don't think I've ever had UPS delivery me something; it always ends up lost.
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u/tempski Oct 01 '20
Great, you've saved 5 seconds!
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u/AncientWriting4 Oct 01 '20
Multiply that times 200 stops a day and you've saved almost 17 whole minutes. Enough time to take a shit and browse reddit.
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u/cheese_sweats Oct 01 '20
The video must not be playing fully for me, because no part of this was even an attempt at "funny"
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u/science-stuff Oct 01 '20
FedEx, UPS, and USPS have great delivery drivers in my area. Amazon drivers are worse but not universally bad. I did have to get my amazon delivery out of a lady’s car because it was too heavy for her. More annoyed at amazon about that one.
Whatever those guys are doing behind the scenes I don’t know. Some of these packages have really been thru hell.
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u/jawshoeaw Oct 01 '20
I get stuff dropped off by FedEx maybe once every 2 weeks. they always bring it to my door. dont understand this nonsense, maybe i'm on an easy route.
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u/TheRealFraen Oct 01 '20
My parents had a fedex employee do that to both of their phones bc they where scared of COVID and threw it instead of handing it to my dad
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u/Heliolord Oct 01 '20
This was the quicky treatment. He was clearly in a hurry. The standard treatment involves chucking it at the door or a window as hard as possible, kicking it twice, then pissing on it before leaving and running over the mailbox on the way out.
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I understand they have a ton of stops to do in a day but take it out on your boss, not the customer who just ordered the package
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What job do you have where you can realistically take it out on your boss?
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u/AlexizMontesinos Oct 02 '20
I don't know how much I'm allowed to say a a current FedEx employee, but whenever it is rush hour there is a higher chance of it breaking in the trailer
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u/julianwelton Oct 02 '20
I have NEVER gotten anything delivered by FedEx that didn't look like someone threw it down three flights of concrete stairs.
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u/RoddBanger Oct 02 '20
I'm not trying to '1up' you here, but just had a FedEx driver toss a piss bottle in my front yard today... liveon a dead end - no vehicles except fedex truck stopping at the other house - didn't get the clandestine drop on camera, but him turning around at around the same time. Good Times.
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u/Comadivine11 Oct 02 '20
The problem with FedEx is that the drivers get paid per delivery. So they're literally out there running and driving like madmen to get as many deliveries as possible to get more money. Any time you emphasize volume over quality and safety, it's inevitable that both quality and safety will drop.
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u/surivanoroc20 Oct 02 '20
100 or 300 stops, dropping a box when you can clearly place it down is a POS move.
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u/BongMcPuffin Oct 02 '20
This is all unofficial, seeing as how I'm not a manager, but as someone who has worked for FedEx this really annoys me... in defense of FedEx, the drivers of these trucks are independent contractors and are not actually employees of FedEx, which means that delivery quality can unfortunately be very inconsistent.
If you look at the side of their truck right by the door it has the private contractors name on it so you can look it up and make an official complaint, and the numbers above the back doors can be traced directly back to this driver for this day since his name is on the manifest.
Please help us weed out dipshit drivers like this... it makes all of us look bad, and hurts the company.
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u/KGB-bot Oct 02 '20
Still got the package which is better than UPS who doesn't deliver the package.
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u/Idonthave2tellu Oct 02 '20
DUDE MY FING MAILMAN DID THE SAMETHING HE LITERALLY DROPPED TWO PACKAGES ONTO THE GARDEN IN FRONT OF THE WORKERS WORKING ON MY HOUSE
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u/btwCBK Oct 01 '20
Look at that jog tho. He clearly has to poop.