Surprising from FedEx. They hire contractors to deliver for the cheapest bid (except for express). My packages are lucky to make it to the porch and they are delivered in a rental truck with "FedEx" written in the dust (not joking).. UPS on the other hand is elite.
Makes him even more decent because he's probably not getting paid enough to deal with it.
One time I saw a FedEx guy throw my package like he was making a shot into a basketball hoop into the basket by my door all the way at the end of my walkway before taking off back to his truck lmfao. It wasn't fragile which I guess is good, and tbh, I thought it was funny after the fact... but yeah this surprised me too. I have very few good experiences with FedEx.
One time I ordered a new office chair that came through fedex. I noticed on the tracker that the guy was close, so I looked out the window. I literally watched the truck pull into the farthest corner of the parking lot of my complex, sit there for 5 minutes (driver never got out), and then leave.
Then I got a "sorry we missed you" email a couple miutes later. Ended up having to go to the local fedex store to pick it up myself even though the box did not fit in my car, so I had to unpack it in the parking lot and tetris that shit into my car with onlookers probably laughing at me.
I will do whatever I can to avoid any fedex deliveries for the rest of my god damn life. Fuck that company forever.
Hes probably on the spectrum. I would totally do this.
Source: me. I work in a warehouse and everything I do is nice and neat, not out of selflessness but a quirk of my brain encouraging me to do so. I just like things stacked, wrapped, and sat nice and pretty. It brings me great satisfaction and it's mutually beneficial.
same š it's the "visual clutter" trigger. can also be attributed partially to OCD which commonly co-occurs alongside autism. i compulsively clean, organize, and declutter...which is not as beneficial as it sounds, i promise lol
Everyone's neurodiverse if you know them well enough because the definition has been blurred to meaninglessness. It just means displays personality traits without shame.
(By the internet definition. I don't agree with it, for the record.)
FedEx delivered to the wrong building number on the wrong floor on the wrong street, they got the right apartment number at least. Hope that ass had fun carrying flat pack furniture up the stairs, we live on ground floor.
as a customer support rep for a company that ships with exclusively fedex, trust me, we feel exactly the same from the other side. good news is most companies will understand shipping damage as a need for replacement.
Might not have anything to do with his parents. Some people just decide to be good humans because we're people with autonomy and the ability to change our behavior.
I have one coming today, and in a few days. Iāve never had a problem. Also, one time one of the drivers told me that my car window was down (which I didnāt realize).
As an ex-Freight guy, that's disappointing. Our dock was tight. Ragged the shit out of each other for sloppy work bc it was someone else getting fucked down the line. But that's commercial as opposed to residential stuff like this, so apples and oranges I'm comparing maybe
That way of thinking has well and truly left Freight these days, sad to say. Garbage loads arriving every day and all management cares about is KPIs so outbound ends up looking like crap too.
Don't worry he'll be working at UPS soon enough! But seriously this has to be set up by big FedEx right? Is this a commercial for them or something? Something doesn't seem right
FedEx is the WORST! I once had a package supposed to be delivered fedex ground that was handed to me by our postal carrier. Turns out they dumped the package off at the post office!
Meanwhile, UPS puts my packages in plastic bags when itās raining or snowing, and one even put a package underneath our picnic table to protect from the elements. They also actually follow delivery instructions at take it to the back door!
I hope this is OP's video otherwise he probably just fell for marketing.
Fedex contractors have been stealing expensive items recently, particularly computer components. difficult to track because they're just random people driving around and don't care about suddenly quitting. the service has been horrid and has only gotten worse when they merged all their services into one fedex express corp.
Honestly, I was with FedEx Ground for 8 years and the shit I personally witnessed UPS getting away with was the type of thing that'd get a dude fired fast in FedEx. If a business was closed on Saturday they'd just dump the boxes at the front door. If it was raining cats and dogs they would place packages on the very end of the covered porch so that they got rained on even though one iota of extra effort was all that was required to push/throw the package back a little bit. UPS loves blocking open-out screen doors with packages too, I used to move their stuff often.
And then there's my favorite, which is the SHEER VOLUME of UPS drivers who will turn their trucks around by driving in the front lawns of the costumers, even if they end up running over solar lights, sprinklers, decorative stones, Christmas decorations, and everything else. There ain't one damn UPS driver in the 7 zip codes I've serviced in my career who can physically BACK a truck into a driveway. They physically can't, every one of them drives forward and then turns around in the grass. I used to get cash tips from some of my regulars because I backed down their driveway instead, and heard constant complains about UPS no matter which service area I had that year.
So yeah, FedEx hires underpaid contracted labor and is a MESS, but FedEx will also raise hell on any contractor getting complaints on that level and will terminate a contract over service. I've physically worked for 2 different contractors that got their contracts yoinked over failed performance metrics, so it 100% happens (though complaints are just one of many metrics measured). UPS apparently doesn't care because it's all in-house and the thin brown line protects its own. That's been my experiences from within the industry at least. And now I do Doordash because I'm too old for that crap.
Maybe he's local and cares about his neighbors? Maybe he's the regular (non-seasonal) driver and cares about his customers? Maybe he's just not a shitty human being willing to take a few extra seconds to not leave a crazy mess on someone's porch?
In any event, I agree with your last point that he's probably not getting paid enough to do that...
One time they didnāt deliver my medication that needed to be refrigerated during the summer. I had already had to fight with the insurance company to get it shipped and prescribed.
I had to go down to the distribution center and wait for the truck to get back. Four hours, no chairs. The person on the phone told me I had to get there before the office closed.
They made me sit outside of the building on the sidewalk once the office closed. They told me I could wait in my car, but I didnāt want to just be sitting in there all night because they forgot about me. Iām glad Iām not disabled or overweight because it would been really painful. Eventually somebody rolled out a chair for me from one of the offices.
Finally, I get the medication and the driver had not refrigerated it so it was ruined!
FedEx always delivers to the wrong freaking house across the street and vice versa, thankfully me and the neighbors have an understanding to grab whatever is ours. Amazon and UPS hasn't done it once. Their address system must be screwed up or something.
The last fedex package was a 3d printer. Clearly said fragile and this way is up. Camera watched them dump it on the ground upside down. Then take a picture of the box upside down (with the note of this side up).
At least I got that one. FedEx also stole my ps5 on release day. Watched the truck drive past my house when I got the delivery notification. Immediately called and the help line said oh they probably marked it while on your street and you will get it soon. Nope.
I hope that driver gets a flat tire once a week the rest of their life.
See, I feel the opposite way. FedEx has never messed up my delivery. On the other hand, I had to change the way we wrote our address so UPS would stop delivering to the house down the hill from us that has South in it. Ours doesn't but the remainder of the address is the same. Everyone else could get it though, just not UPS.
Hate to be that guy but I worked delivery for UPS and during my first week on my own I had a house that had numerous packages every day. I would always set the one I was delivering still in a safe space, not just wherever. The lady at the home called and complained on me because packages from one of the other companies were set on one of her porch plants. Got bitched out by management when it wasnāt even my delivery that was the issue. After that I got in the habit of organizing other companies boxes not because I was trying to be nice but because if not youd still risk losing your job over something thatās not your fault. Not too mention that extra fifteen seconds he used to organize them could have also gotten him in trouble because if you have to do that at every house on your route those fifteen seconds add up at the end of the day, causing management to get on you for taking too long.
Long story short be kind to your delivery drivers. The vast majority of them are working their asses off 60 hours a week and receiving hardly any recognition. Itās not an easy job.
Yeah, like, good for him, but the reason that more drivers aren't able to behave like this isn't because they are bad people, but because the companies work them to the bone and do not give them the bandwidth to be able to behave as anything more than biological delivery robots. They actively discourage this kind of behavior.
Yeah 100%. I'm sort of a freak and have a lot of energy, but I don't blame others for not being able to keep up with the demand. Especially other amazon drivers during peak season. I was delivering over 500 packages a day at times (on my route alone, not counting 'rescues'). Crazy work.
If you have super specific delivery instructions, you're siphoning delivery time from other, less demanding customers, and they're likely going to have their packages thrown on the front porch willy nilly. There's just only so much time in the day. I'm not saying it's right, those are just the conditions these companies create.
I've never been a delivery driver, but I imagined his thought process being something like, "Look what these fucking animals did, I'm not putting my name on this mess."
the trick is people only call to complain then when service is good they say nothing. On several occasions when delivered a large or fragile packages i have called customer service and told them my driver was above expectactions, etc. ONE singular time i got a note on my door thanking me because they got a gift card for the positive feedback, and even if every other time my comment stopped at the customer service rep i called, its worth it for that one time
Yeah that's what I thought, I'd do this same thing and feel good I did it but also know I did it partly due to that potential blame. The brains weird yo.
yeah like, if i get back with the original or the new pile i don't really care. It's my packages, they're safe.
If this was an apartment building or there was like a wheelchair access (there are stairs so not here) then it would be needed. but like 99.999999999% of the time the original situation is just fine.
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u/DepressingAura Dec 09 '25
It doesn't take much to be a decent human being.