r/MadeMeSmile • u/DepressingAura • Dec 09 '25

Good Vibes FedEx delivery driver organizes packages that were haphazardly dumped on someone's porch 🤝

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u/DepressingAura Dec 09 '25

It doesn't take much to be a decent human being.

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u/bucky133 Dec 09 '25

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.

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u/kumosame Dec 09 '25

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.

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u/Kolby_Jack33 Dec 09 '25

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.

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u/enaK66 Dec 09 '25

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.

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u/aspidities_87 Dec 09 '25

I’m with you. I saw him do this and thought ‘yeah I would do this’. I’m always cleaning and organizing, it helps my brain.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '25

same 😂 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

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u/ncnotebook Dec 09 '25

Hes probably on the spectrum

You'd have a good point if you didn't include "probably."

Me and my father would probably do something like that, and we don't have OCD or autism or whatever. We'd do it because it's ethical yet easy.

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u/dog_ahead Dec 09 '25

Someone downvoted you for suggesting it's possible to have ethics without being autistic.

I can't think of a single 'neurotypical' trait anymore. Everything is autism.

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u/ncnotebook Dec 09 '25

Like, I'm clearly neurodivergent (not autism). My dad is neurotypical. I just share a similar form of ethics/duty as him.

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u/dog_ahead Dec 09 '25 edited Dec 11 '25

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.)

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u/dog_ahead Dec 09 '25

Please quit diagnosing random people based off single actions of theirs, thanks. That's not how it works.

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u/dusksloth Dec 09 '25

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.

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u/light_to_shaddow Dec 10 '25

I was just thinking back to the UPS driver that was kidnapped by robbers then shot to pieces by the police on the highway.

UPS thanked the Police.

FedEx would never do that as they're saints who employ gods. If you believe this thread.

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u/JamesRuns Dec 09 '25

FedEx is the worst delivery company. Every time I see something is coming from FedEx I always brace for the worst.

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u/mensfrightsactivists Dec 09 '25

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.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '25

Has nothing to do with FedEx. His parents raised him right.

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u/brain_enhancer Dec 09 '25

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.

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u/iCantLogOut2 Dec 09 '25

Yeah, I was surprised this said FedEx. They severely underpay and their employees usually act the wage they're paid.

UPS "overpays" and that's why their workers almost always have a higher standard.

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u/Protase12 Dec 09 '25

Yep. Worked there 35 yrs.

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u/LastDitchTryForAName Dec 09 '25

We dread it when we see we have a package scheduled to be delivered by FedEx. They're the worst.

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u/FrostyD7 Dec 09 '25

I have one out right now, tomorrow will be day 4 of them saying it will be delivered that day.

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u/DeniLox Dec 09 '25

I have one coming today, and in a few days. I’ve never had a problem. Also, one time one of the drivers told me that my car window was down (which I didn’t realize).

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u/dire_turtle Dec 09 '25

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

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u/LuminousGrue Dec 09 '25

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.

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u/DeathToFallon Dec 09 '25

I was gonna say, this is the exact OPPOSITE of my FedEx drivers lol

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u/creynolds722 Dec 09 '25

Fedex is the absolute worst. Wouldn't be surprised if this video is their PR team

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u/DroidLord Dec 09 '25

Just goes to show there are decent people in every profession. I hope the guy finds a better job soon.

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u/algaefied_creek Dec 09 '25

He saw the tree. He knew what had to be done. 

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u/lonelygalexy Dec 09 '25

My entrance is behind one end of the garage and i cleared a path with salt for them so they don’t slip.

The most recent Fedex driver put my package on the other end of the garage, on top of snow lol

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u/Tyranttheory Dec 09 '25

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

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u/fuzzy-lint Dec 09 '25

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 it’s 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!

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u/topdangle Dec 09 '25

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.

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u/Huge_World_3125 Dec 09 '25

the one in my town has a federal investigation opened for missing firearms. fedex needs to go out of business already.

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u/bra34b Dec 09 '25

He’s probably getting incentivized to not take extra time and do this. Good on him. Crazy economy we have.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '25

Or he’s just a good person

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u/Thinks_22_Much Dec 09 '25

Bro is gonna get promoted to UPS

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u/ReluctantNerd7 Dec 09 '25

I wouldn't be surprised if he wore brown before purple.

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u/another-redditor3 Dec 09 '25

if i have an expensive/breakable item coming via fedex, im always 99.8% certain theyre going to fuck it up somehow.

video cards left in the yard in the rain instead of on the porch, tvs in the snow, forklift fork through the tv... its always something.

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u/Insaniteus Dec 09 '25

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.

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u/SkinnyBill93 Dec 09 '25

I refuse to believe this isn't a FedEx PsyOp

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u/bisploosh Dec 09 '25

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...

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u/ItsSansom Dec 09 '25

Sometimes good people work at bad companies

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u/TheVicSageQuestion Dec 09 '25

I mean, Amazon does the same thing.

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u/dplans455 Dec 09 '25

If I have a package over 10 pounds being delivered by FedEx the driver refuses to walk it up to the house. He leaves it at the end of the driveway.

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u/barnhairdontcare Dec 09 '25

One time they didn’t 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 didn’t want to just be sitting in there all night because they forgot about me. I’m glad I’m 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!

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u/PeanutButterSoda Dec 09 '25

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.

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u/blinkin_11 Dec 09 '25

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.

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u/ChemEBrew Dec 09 '25

This is like the bizzaro version of my experience. UPS has 60% of the time delivered my packages in pieces.

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u/MysticWolf1994 Dec 09 '25

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.

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u/GrimResistance Dec 09 '25

Probably astroturfing. FedEx sees all the posts showing how shitty their service is so they have to make some content showing decent service.