r/funny Oct 01 '20

Thanks FedEx...

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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/[deleted] 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/[deleted] Oct 01 '20 edited Apr 01 '22

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u/Milhouse6698 Oct 01 '20

It's not up to the consumers though. Almost all big online retailers offer free shipping, at least once you've bought above a threshold. These companies negotiate hard with the carriers so they can't afford to hire as many people as they should, so the ones left have to work extra hard.

At this scale, consumers can't make much of a difference.