It WORKS
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Fedex sucks in general. This box contains 7000 bucks worth of laser cutter/ Box has been handled so harshly that its starting to come open. Not to mention they ignored the this side up part.
Used to deliver for Amazon. Fragile, handle with care, this side up, lay flat, team lift, don't stack, all those mean nothing to the warehouse workers or most of the drivers. It's so chaotic in there and nobody has time to treat packages carefully.
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More times than not they have faked deliveries for me. Sit beside door all day, no knock, no ring, nothing. Then look outside and there's a we missed you slip
Eh that’s not specific to fedex. Mostly seems to be regional; all the carriers do that shit somewhere
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Fedex sucks in general. This box contains 7000 bucks worth of laser cutter/ Box has been handled so harshly that its starting to come open. Not to mention they ignored the this side up part.
i was reading about shipping fragile things by USPS…
every forum i found, of people that ship antiques and such, is that marking it “fragile” guarantees that it will get destroyed in transit.
i’ve only tried it once… we packed the thing super nice, and it was completely destroyed…. in was impossible to do on accident… even if they had treated it like a regular package, it would’ve been destroyed.
but, treat employees like shit, pay them shit, and they’re going to be malicious…. -
My fed ex people like to put my big/heavy packages right in front of my glass door that very obviously opens out and not in, which blocks my ability to open the door.
I've never thought about that as being a vulnerability of storm doors. I guess you'd better leave it propped open on days when you're expecting a package.
(If it's not a storm door — i.e. if it doesn't have another door behind it — IMO whoever installed it fucked up.)
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I've never thought about that as being a vulnerability of storm doors. I guess you'd better leave it propped open on days when you're expecting a package.
(If it's not a storm door — i.e. if it doesn't have another door behind it — IMO whoever installed it fucked up.)
It never occurred to me that they are called storm doors. Thanks!
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Obviously screw FedEx, but why the hell is the # symbol part of the door code? It's just asking for this to happen.
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I cannot impress upon you all how much I loathe FedEx. I feel like they go out of their way to mess things up.
It's amazing the difference a union makes for customer satisfaction isn't it?
Note: USPS & UPS are both unionized.
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You can just let the free market solve this problem for you. It doesn't happen often, but it's actually true here.
It's super fucking easy too: place the burden of delivery on the seller/shipper, and presto, suddenly paying a little more for non-shit delivery becomes worth it. Or they keep trying till they get it right.
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So you're telling me the company that doesn't have unions fails to deliver?
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I had similar with Hermes/EVRI, they were so bad and just refused to do the most basic things. Visible doorbell? Nope! Gonna ignore it, pretend you aren't in and won't even deliver the parcel to a neighbour, just take it with them. They're making more work for themselves.
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You can just let the free market solve this problem for you. It doesn't happen often, but it's actually true here.
It's super fucking easy too: place the burden of delivery on the seller/shipper, and presto, suddenly paying a little more for non-shit delivery becomes worth it. Or they keep trying till they get it right.
...and you're suggesting to implement that... how?
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Ok, now imagine that you've left "signature required" packages like this before and the person reported them stolen or not delivered to collect on the insurance. How do you think that would make you feel as a delivery driver. Would you ever do it again?
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Used to deliver for Amazon. Fragile, handle with care, this side up, lay flat, team lift, don't stack, all those mean nothing to the warehouse workers or most of the drivers. It's so chaotic in there and nobody has time to treat packages carefully.
That's what happens when people don't want to pay for deliveries.
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Obviously screw FedEx, but why the hell is the # symbol part of the door code? It's just asking for this to happen.
You press the # to start writing the code on Yale doorman, or to lock the door
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Used to deliver for Amazon. Fragile, handle with care, this side up, lay flat, team lift, don't stack, all those mean nothing to the warehouse workers or most of the drivers. It's so chaotic in there and nobody has time to treat packages carefully.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Just want to shift the blame here: that culture is set by management. The likelihood of damaging any given item to the extent that a claim is made is low enough that throughput is prioritized for profit. It's a shitty statistics game and your "fragile this side up" means nothing.
I threw boxes for FedEx for a while at an airport. And yeah, "nonconveyable" freight (oversize/oddly shaped/overweight/hazmat) gets handled differently and holy shit is it a nightmare simply because its isn't easily stackable. Overweight? Yeah, we just tipped that out of the can and let it fall so we could roll it onto the low belt and into the next can. Over/oddly sized? If you're lucky it got set aside and shoved on top. If not, it got crushed by whatever got thrown on top.
And sidenote: that box looks great, especially if it went through more than one ramp sort.
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You can just let the free market solve this problem for you. It doesn't happen often, but it's actually true here.
It's super fucking easy too: place the burden of delivery on the seller/shipper, and presto, suddenly paying a little more for non-shit delivery becomes worth it. Or they keep trying till they get it right.
Not when there's a hot new trend of charging extra at checkout for "shipping protection" from some shell of a company named Route, on top of paying for shipping. And checking it by default, too, so most folks probably never even notice.
"By declining package protection, $merchantname is not responsible for lost, damaged, or stolen items."
Of course they still are responsible, but some companies like this are making it clear they're not gonna deal with their own selected shippers when they fuck up
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You press the # to start writing the code on Yale doorman, or to lock the door
Ohh, I see. That makes it more clear than saying it's part of the code
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Just want to shift the blame here: that culture is set by management. The likelihood of damaging any given item to the extent that a claim is made is low enough that throughput is prioritized for profit. It's a shitty statistics game and your "fragile this side up" means nothing.
I threw boxes for FedEx for a while at an airport. And yeah, "nonconveyable" freight (oversize/oddly shaped/overweight/hazmat) gets handled differently and holy shit is it a nightmare simply because its isn't easily stackable. Overweight? Yeah, we just tipped that out of the can and let it fall so we could roll it onto the low belt and into the next can. Over/oddly sized? If you're lucky it got set aside and shoved on top. If not, it got crushed by whatever got thrown on top.
And sidenote: that box looks great, especially if it went through more than one ramp sort.
What did you do with stuff labeled hazmat?
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Used to deliver for Amazon. Fragile, handle with care, this side up, lay flat, team lift, don't stack, all those mean nothing to the warehouse workers or most of the drivers. It's so chaotic in there and nobody has time to treat packages carefully.
This has been the case for decades, everywhere.
People, package your shit properly or pay the extra amount to ship it specially.
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Used to deliver for Amazon. Fragile, handle with care, this side up, lay flat, team lift, don't stack, all those mean nothing to the warehouse workers or most of the drivers. It's so chaotic in there and nobody has time to treat packages carefully.
Yepp. I work in shipping, and if you’re not comfortable throwing the box as hard as you can at a wall, you shouldn’t be comfortable shipping it.
