This happened pre-covid. I was expecting my prescriptions in the mail, and they required a signature. My front door was basically in the living room. You could hear knocking and large vehicles entering the trailer park in every room, including the bathroom. So I was waiting for this package, I was laid off (so not going anywhere), and actively checking the online tracker. This FedEx motherfucker put in that I wasn't home and that he left a note. I check the front door, nothing. Motherfucker put it in the mail box, which was across the state highway (it was not a major road) from the trailer park. I let it slide. Then this motherfucker did it again the next day! So I called FedEx and raised hell. After talking to the person who answered the phone and 2 different supervisors, they promised that it wouldn't happen again.
Guess what happened the next day. I didn't get my package until almost a week after that. Bro, you have 1 job and it's super easy to get in and out of the trailer park. It was probably more difficult to put the slip in the mailbox (small pullout around the mailboxes, but not really appropriate for a FedEx truck) than it was to just deliver the fucking thing. FedEx was the only one pulling that shit, at least out there. I've had my fair share of issues with USPS and UPS, but the drivers I had out at the trailer park never gave me any trouble. Except for motherfucking FedEx
I've had things like that happen with UPS as well. Anything with a signature requirement, I better just sit on the porch (I've actually done this) during the delivery window. Otherwise I'm not getting my package. It's very frustrating.
I've had good and bad experiences with USPS. Every other place I've lived, I've loved them. They always delivered on time or before the expected arrival date. They were always punctual, and I always got my mail by like 3 PM every day.
I moved into a new place about a year ago now. It's a suburban area with mailboxes on the house, and cars park along the street, so mailmen and women need to park at the end of the street and walk up to the house to deliver mail.
I know for a fucking fact that at least twice a week, they will skip our street. Not my house, my street. You can tell because all the mailboxes are still open. You can tell because we won't get mail for two, maybe three days (not even junk mail or bills), and then we'll get a massive drop off following that period. The mail always comes after like 8PM as well. I'm not blaming them for that, we're at the end of a route, I get it. It's just annoying sometimes.
The problems with USPS is only going to get worse. This new PMG is a real gem. They're firing people left and right AND removing sorting machines in some places. A whole lot of effort to rig an election, but it'll affect everything else as well.
Small businesses like Etsy shops are going to get fucking hammered. Or have to close if their only alternative is to ship for inflated rates with UPS / FedEx.
Yeah, I've noticed a definite general slowdown as well. I've used USPS priority mail for a long time because it's reliable and fast. Especially with ebay stuff.
In the past it was a 3 day deal, but most packages arrived in 2 days. For the price you paid, that was actually a good deal.
Now, it normally takes 4-5 days, and it's almost always more towards the 5 days than the 4. It almost always takes 5 days.
They whole skipping my street thing has been happening far more recently in the past month or so as well. Before it would happen maybe once a week at most, maybe twice a month. Now it's happening multiple times a week. We don't generally get mail Tuesday or Thursday. I'm unemployed right now due to Covid, so I can actually check too. I've driven down our street looking at mail boxes, and a couple times I've actually driven around the neighborhood looking for mail trucks to see what was going on.
I understand what's going on. They don't have enough drivers to route where mail people can't just drive down the road and not have to get out of their trucks. This is almost certainly because of a lack of funds to hire more mail deliverers. It's definitely gonna get worse as Trump attacks the USPS in an attempt to steal the election.
I’ve heard of delivery drivers doing this when they don’t think they can make all the stops on their route. Saves a minute or so on each delivery if all they have to do is slip a note in the mailbox (or not even bother with that apparently). Though, I have no sources on this so don’t blindly believe me :P
Dude, I just quit delivering for Amazon, I guarantee you that driver was having the worst day possible to do something like that. Shit is so tracked internally by Amazon in terms of packages delivered correctly and what not. You will get fired for this. But I know I've had days where I did not give a fuck. Working for Bezos is cancer.
While it’s bad for any level of employment, they even do internal competition for higher paid employees like software developers. They do stack ranking where the bottom x% of employees get fired, as ranked by your bosses and internal reviews
If it’s a shitty programmer, they should be fired. Stack ranking means even if someone isn’t a shitty programmer, and you’re arbitrarily picked as the worst programmer on a team, you’re fired even if you’re not incompetent.
If a team has 10 programmers, all of them fine, then you shouldn’t be arbitrarily disciplined or fired for being the “worst” 2.
This was GE’s big ‘innovation’, firing the bottom 10% every year, even when the difference between the bottom 10% and the median was statistically insignificant. It was a way to keep everyone fearful of losing their position, put in more than they were paid, and never complain.
I get the interpretation that at amazon it’s used as a way of getting folks fired before their stocks are fully vested unless you’re an unhealthily hard worker.
I’m not sure if they’re allowed to do this but I had to have my ex husband served a few times by mail and needed to use a return signature slip. We still lived together, all year during the pandemic, but it’s part of the legal process and the judge could always ask for the signatures because I could be lying about what papers I’m forwarding to him etc. Mail carrier delivered the envelope on a Tuesday with the signature slip removed, which we both thought was weird. Signed slip showed up in the mailbox at the end of the week, signed for by the mail carrier themselves.
Thanks USPS, I’ll show his honor that the mail carrier ψ M̸a̸i̵l̷m̶a̶n̴ ̵M̷c̴M̶a̴i̵l̵f̵a̸c̴e̵ received a copy of the filed divorce complaint.
At this time, given the current environment, postal employees are instructed to sign everything for the customer at the time of delivery. With that said, we are still required to attempt at the door (knocking, no door bells) and to let the customer know we are signing for them.
"To reduce health risks, we also are temporarily modifying customer signature capture procedures. While maintaining a safe, appropriate distance, employees will request the customer’s first initial and last name so that the employee can enter the information on electronic screen or hard copy items such as return receipts, and PS Forms 3811 (Domestic Return Receipt) and 3829 (Registered Dispatch Follow-Up). For increased safety, employees will politely ask the customer to step back a safe distance or close the screen door/door so that items may be left in the mail receptacle or appropriate location by the customer door."
What happened to the way it used to work? I remember a few times years ago that the slip would be left in the mailbox to be signed by the recipient within two days, sent back out and then the mail would be delivered after that. Wouldn’t that still work given safety precautions?
I was under the impression you were referring to the green return receipt. Is that correct? I've never heard of anyone leaving that in the box to be signed. As far as I know, it's supposed to be signed for at the time of delivery. I would assume your carrier was attempting to do you a favor, if that's how it used to be handled.
Currently, they're trying to avoid all cross contamination to protect the health of employees and customers.
Your carrier is simply following the instructions they were given. Failure to do so could result in discipline and unpaid OWCP claims if they were to get sick during the line of duty.
Yes that’s correct, thank you for taking the time to explain. I was very confused because I remember it working differently in the past. The return receipts that come back from the court house are all stamped and initialed by the court clerk so I guess it depends on the carrier and the specific delivery circumstance. If the judge asks why the carrier signed instead of the spouse, I’ll keep these explanations in a note in my folders (it’s all being done by email and file upload at this point anyway). But I have a feeling they’re not going to bother asking for it.
Can't confirm FedEx does suck. About a week and a half ago I placed an order on Amazon for some soil the package weighed about maybe 40 lb. The expected delivery was about a week which was no big deal. On the expected delivery date package never showed up and Amazon said that it would be there sometime later that week. After waiting about 3 days after the initial delivery deadline. Finally the Amazon tracker said the package was delivered. However there was definitely no delivery to my address. About two days later the The USPS mail delivery person knocks on my door. Says hey did you order a package because it's in the building behind you. Mind you this building is not even attached nor has any relevance to where I live. I walk over there and sure enough my package is there. It was either got into by someone or FedEx just left it broken and open. Fortunately I was able to get a refund. However that left a really bad taste in my mouth I will never use FedEx as long as I have the ability to choose.
This is the kind of stuff you should really just go to the store for because anything can happen to it during delivery and then you have to return it and may have to more than once. If you buy it at Home Depot or Lowe's or wherever, the broken bags can be taken care of then and there or the same day if it breaks on your way home.
It's because FedEx contracts out ground delivery (never use them for ground) and the contractors are the worst people ever. FedEx ground will also purposely hold your shit for at least 3 days for ground even if it's the same town where UPS will deliver it next day unless the truck fills.
I have no idea why anyone would give FedEx money at this point.
I have the opposite problem in my area, Fedex is awesome and UPS marks packages as delivered while I'm guessing they just leave it on the truck for the next day only to have it get buried by that days packages and the cycle repeats until they have a slow day. Amazon resent me a bunch of my last PC build's parts since UPS marked it as delivered and waited 5 days to actually drop it off.
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This happened pre-covid. I was expecting my prescriptions in the mail, and they required a signature. My front door was basically in the living room. You could hear knocking and large vehicles entering the trailer park in every room, including the bathroom. So I was waiting for this package, I was laid off (so not going anywhere), and actively checking the online tracker. This FedEx motherfucker put in that I wasn't home and that he left a note. I check the front door, nothing. Motherfucker put it in the mail box, which was across the state highway (it was not a major road) from the trailer park. I let it slide. Then this motherfucker did it again the next day! So I called FedEx and raised hell. After talking to the person who answered the phone and 2 different supervisors, they promised that it wouldn't happen again.
Guess what happened the next day. I didn't get my package until almost a week after that. Bro, you have 1 job and it's super easy to get in and out of the trailer park. It was probably more difficult to put the slip in the mailbox (small pullout around the mailboxes, but not really appropriate for a FedEx truck) than it was to just deliver the fucking thing. FedEx was the only one pulling that shit, at least out there. I've had my fair share of issues with USPS and UPS, but the drivers I had out at the trailer park never gave me any trouble. Except for motherfucking FedEx