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I'm trusting FedEx/ UPS less by the day

Many of the people working these high demand jobs in the shipping industry were already hating it before the pandemic and what not. Now I think many simply dont care one bit. Then you throw huge "fragile" and "do not drop" stickers on the box with a nice big beautiful picture advertisement of the component/ speaker on the outside box for everyone to see and its almost goading them to mess with it. 

Recently bought a subwoofer and  there was a hole/dent in the box  so deep it penetrated through the 2nd interior box. Obviously this was dropped from some distance. Not too mention the fact that the UPS driver just flopped the box off the dolly causing it to roll forward on to its other side. Right in front of me. No apology or anything,  just handed me the sign pad and acted like it was nothing. And that's how it's being treated in front of the customer I can't imagine what goes down in these warehouses. 

Ok end of rant 🙂

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immatthewj
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Fed ex used to bring the stuff I ordered to my front doorstep and not ring the door bell. For the last two orders they delivered, they didn't even make it the front doorstep--they deposited it the orders in front of my garage.  (I guess because it is an attached garage and the orders were, after all, from Rockauto.)

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artemus_5
2,016 posts
 

@immatthewj 

I too have an attached garage. I also have a covered  front porch. I can't tell you how many times the UPS guy has left a package in front of the garage. I suppose it saves the 30 steps or so. One time I was expecting a tablet and happened to see the delivery guy walk to the garage and put the package there. It was the tablet of course. It had already rained and we were expecting more so it was very overcast. I went outside and told him that this needed to be put on the covered porch.. He became frustrated as he brought it to me and said he thought it would be alright there because it was covered. Yeah, there is a 16" overhang 2 stories in the air above the garage. IOW, he added stupid to  lazy on his resume . But that is what many employers face today.

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nonoise
11,226 posts
 

 

'nuff said.

All the best,
Nonoise

immatthewj
3,300 posts
 

I am home quite a bit of the time, but anymore they never ring the bell.  I generally find out something has been delivered when I check my email.

And those Amazon delivery drivers?  Their driving is going to kill people.

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mapman
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I try to buy things that do not have to be shipped far to try and minimize the risk of shipping damage which may well have become more of a problem in recent years. So many businesses struggle to do things well anymore in that there is a shortage of reliable labor in general. We have a local Brand new Starbucks that only has its drive through open half the time due to labor shortage. Even then it’s common orders come out wrong. Chick filet is fully open but also struggles to get simple orders right.

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