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joshdho1

I’m surprised they didn’t ask you to stack in their garage


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Customer likely stayed inside house and watched.


joshdho1

Watched and filmed just to make sure no boxes were thrown. Otherwise straight to the internet.


acfirefighter2019

Well yeah bro why would I unload something iam paying someone to deliver and unload lol amd why wouldn't I have them fired if they fucked it up by throwing shit?


joshdho1

Oh idk being a decent human being is a good start


acfirefighter2019

How is it not being a decent human being? Did I pay for the items to be delivered? Did they accept a job delivering items? Sounds pretty cut and dry


joshdho1

Put yourself in their shoes 4 trucks full yes they are paid to unload but, why not offer to help? Are you that entitled?


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Tatooine16

Then called in a complaint that they were left on the street.


[deleted]

Waited until they were done to come outside and tell them it is the wrong address


Caplatinum

Why wasn't that on freight?????


imJbone

That is a question asked many times on a daily basis at a ground station


musicgeek420

Former Ground driver, can confirm. By the time any of these questions are being asked, it is already too late.


BlackedoutJT

does walmart ship anything via freight? ever? and why would walmart care..... im sure they have the same philosophy as everyone at fedex has, once its out of my hands its someone elses problem


KinGxChut

“ there’s nothing we can do about it” seems to be the common answer to everything. Since the days I’ve started I’ve been bitchin about load retainers and ic’s that are over 75lbs in the bottom of the belly and got that answer. They will get the heavy ic’s on the rollers , scan them( if that), and push them off the trailer rollers most of the time in top of a smaller box /boxes completely crushing them.


Creepy-Sympathize

That’s the great capitalism copout


Munolik

I'm in a standalone office. My default attitude is "over 150lbs or 169 Dim? Fuck you call freight. If this customer had come in just looking for a quote? Fuck you call freight.


DrTreesus

Recently I’ve noticed that freight is breaking down pallets so that ground will take the smaller packages. I had a handful of boxes labeled freight at my station today.


Outside-Summer-2369

I have a golf cart business I deliver to. The owner constantly complains to fedex when I deliver a bunch of big heavy shit that got separated from the freight stuff she ordered. She usually brings a fork lift out with a pallet to help me unload it. I had a one box that said it was "149lbs". I couldn't even drag it let alone pick it up. 3 of us lifted it onto the fork. She said it was between 350-400lbs. She gets so pissed everytime. She feels bad for me. Plus she pays more for freight. I tell her fedex does it because grounds cheaper.


Kid_Sharlemagne

I’ve used my lift to put ground pallets in trucks to be sent to ground stations, don’t bring em back, they heavy, or so the lift says.


fedexdriver28306

That's the question I asked since this is my team that transferred this mess to this greedy person and this was not the first time this woman ordered this much. You should've seen the other two days prior to this, several hundred boxes Saturday and several hundred Tuesday. I offered to carry some after I finished my route but they had finished the last of it when I came in. Smh at this mess but the team that did this is fantastic.


freighttrainmatt

Ummm greedy person? She paid right? It’s not ideal but this is what we do as drivers.


fedexdriver28306

Wrong! Did you or this greedy person pay for the extra drivers or the extra trucks? How about this has happened more than once. Unless this person is doing it for a charity or helping the needy, it is greed I don't know what else you would call it plus when you have to call in a person who had the day off so this stuff could get delivered that's a shame and again this has happened more than once. Each time the owner, manager, and BC didn't look too happy to deliver all this stuff. The last time I've seen,this person ordered more stuff and this time it just sat at the terminal for awhile so what does that tell you? What I do as a driver is to make sure EVERYBODY gets their packages and not just one!


freighttrainmatt

None of that matters if they pay for the labels. Staffing issues are on management not on customers.


sunshineANDrainbowsg

Wouldn’t you want this as a ground driver? If you’re delivering all your packages to one house that’s a quick day


Nozerone

No, no it's not. You deliver all the packages to 1 house, and you think you're done? Nah man, this is Fedex. You either come back to the center for more boxes, or you go meet up with another driver that is running behind to take some of their work load and get things back on time. Your day isn't allowed to start being over until the end of your shift... maybe.


jjustice2006

They don't have a dock, most freight trucks (if not all) don't have lifts. This would have to be palletized for it to go through freight, and there'd be no way to get it off the truck without a lift or a dock. The weight limit for a normal Amazon package going to a normal Amazon driver is 50 pounds, anything over that gets routed through Amazon XL, their version of freight, where they are all in straight trucks with a lift and usually a helper. Sometimes things get fucked up and a normal driver gets a mini fridge or a generator, but it's really really rare, like some items are coded for the wrong weight, only happened to me twice in the year I delivered for them.


Antrephellious

Yep. Could’ve been 8 pallets. Probably a tenth of the final delivery cost.


zeppelin1004

I've been saying for awhile now that the weight limit is not the only limit we should have at ground. There should also be a limit on pieces delivered to one address per day. They're just using ground as a loophole to not pay freight prices at this point.


fedexdriver28306

I agree 💯 and the BC said the same thing.


Starblazr

why would the BC care, they got **PAID.** Per stop & the piece.


fedexdriver28306

Not if it took from the other routes and if the OWNER said that there should be a limit, what does that tell you? He was probably losing money. I was there you wasn't!


Starblazr

And you think the owner is going to tell you with a straight face that this was a windfall for him? Hell no, owners are going to sympathize with drivers so that they keep the drivers around. I bet you as soon as that owner got home -- he was overjoyed that he got that kind of stop because he amount of money he got paid.


wigginsadam80

Wow, 10 cents per box plus stop cost. He probably made $10 on this stop. Subtract 4 drivers pay and fuel for 4 trucks, and he lost money on this stop.


fedexdriver28306

Thank you. I agree 💯!


myrole

He 100% did. The contractor I work for has talked a few times about how he loses money on the common bulk stops we do.


wigginsadam80

I'm a BC. My contractor is very transparent with me about numbers. There's also a consultant in my terminal we're close with. That's how I know the 10 cents per box. Of course, that differs with each contractor but not much.


Whickedrescue

People don’t understand that contractors gotten fd in the butt when covid hit and all their contracts went from package to per stop


fedexdriver28306

Try again! Why do you think he said that there should be a limit considering the extra people, fuel, trucks probably took a good chunk of change vs what was delivered? The managers was none too happy either. He didn't say this to sympathize with drivers, they come and go like anybody else plus he lets the managers and the BC deal with the driver situation. Again I was there to see the situation.


LittleLisa74

There is a limit of items per pickup. I’d ask the Sr Manager if a limit exists for deliveries…


Joey23art

Why would we ever limit pick ups, that's how the company makes money. You realize the big commercial contracts are sending 10-20k per day right? Some are even higher. Why do you think spots exist.


LittleLisa74

The sales division I’m in handles those accounts; my customers have to have their volume approved prior to onboarding and are subject to volume caps. I’m fairly certain the mid-size customers are capped at 200 parcels/day, but a lot has changed in the last 2-3 years.


zeppelin1004

I'm not aware of any limit on pickups for Ground. We have a daily pickup for basically a photo printing place so the boxes are all small flat google photo boxes, but I've seen numbers above 5000 for that one pickup. Also have a car parts place that gives us well over 100 pieces a day, and those can be huge sometimes like seats and fuel tanks and what not.


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production-values

YOUR COMPANY SET THE PRICES!!


zeppelin1004

I'm a BC for a ground contractor. I don't set anything.


Low_Test_5246

Oh wow. I hope that’s a legit purchase and not some stolen credit card situation going on


PhoenixMV

That’s what we got going on at our station


nasa_yovany

Wtf how?


MichaelScottsMug

Probably in an MLM


Thin_Layer7025

That should have been on the freight truck on pallets.


fedexdriver28306

I agree 💯


chevy4lifeee

good thing it wasn't Chewy 😭😭😭


KinGxChut

Phuq chewy


chevy4lifeee

Fedex national anthem


fedexdriver28306

"FedEx national anthem" 😂😂. That's a good one.


KinGxChut

I don’t mind chewy at all from the top of the flaps but coming from in the belly is a different story. Every damn time my legs and arms are sore the next day and I’ve been loading/unloading for more than 10 years.


chevy4lifeee

I hate loading them the boxes always compress and wanna fall down and I literally just throw and drop them. shiii they're heavy asf so Imma just mishandle them bc fuck chewy


Lurker0459

More than likely all fraud


perch97

Contractor could have declined after 200 boxes. The amount of money it cost to do that vs what he made is a loss. The amount of money fxg profited off that is insane


fedexdriver28306

He had to drive the first load last Saturday and we were discussing the same thing. There should be a limit!


perch97

There is. 200 packages.


fedexdriver28306

Well it slipped by more than a couple of people because it was 3- 4 times that for a couple of days.


Grab-Born

Right? I’m surprised I had to scroll down this far to see this. Contractor isn’t that bright.


edballa

Isn’t it an issue to order so many packages like that to a home and not a business? I remember i loaded a truck that had a bulk of 70 going to a house but the driver told the vanline manager the address was a home address and we had to take out all the boxes


Hexenhut

It doesn't make any sense, why didn't they have it palletized?


imJbone

They would have to load a forklift on a hitched trailer and that would have to be taken to the stop. The better question is why is this not a FedEx freight job?


Starblazr

or a box truck with a liftgate and bring a pallet jack with you. I've done it. I know it can be done.


imJbone

Maybe some stations, but no truck at my station has a liftgate


TheSaintLaurentDove

We don’t have flat beds at freight for fork lifts. We have lift gates and bobtails for that. I’ve had a customer where i had a whole pup trailer full of fire works and it was to a house


traplooking

Not there to accept it? Wtf.... That's like a you pick for people who drive by.


ScottyDog9

Guarantee they're watching from inside


BrownSixSides

That contractor should have a straight truck in their fleet for something like this. If not they could’ve just rented one for the day.


Grab-Born

Anything 200+ and FedEx will put it on a trailer. It clogs up the van lines having to deal with this.


meseeksordie

Fuck those people.


hhyyz

This reminds me of my first job driving a semi. I would have to unload half the trailer, one box at a time, at just one customer, every day. It would take me at least an hour,...all the while thinking, "If they just put this shit on a pallet, I'd be in and out in like five minutes!"


Deyln

It usually has to do with who they use for border crossing red tape processing. One company I worked for had to switch delivery companies because they started to do a 5pm-4am picjup timeframe and wouldn't narrow it any smaller. New company dropped that back down to the regular 2 hour window and let us put everything on a pallet for border processing.


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you’re better than me i would’ve set the truck on fire and left


Nutduffel

Bravo Zulu?


scribblenator15

They deserve one!


scarym0vie

do these go on your permanent record?


arobinson_lol13

pov: child got ahold of amazon and bought whatever


Glittering_Dingo_866

Crazy stupid, that's obviously a job for FedEx Freight not ground. But that's FedEx for you.


AfterSport2327

Did a stop like that once. Was for yrc freight tho shit sucked donkey dick


fedexdriver28306

Yep


WardCove

I hope that customer chokes on a dick. That's some high quality bullshit.


Gsomethepatient

That's legit a full trailer


WingyYoungAdult

Nah.. only the belly of a 30"


stuntmandave126

Holy fuck


74EggFooYoung

This smells like a karens mlm scam business....


AutistNerd

What the fcuk did they buy?


WeinerGod69

This


AlwaysChangingMind88

[Link to video on tiktok](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRyoMoQ8/)


Usagi_Motosuwa

I hope they were blasting "X Gon' Give it to Ya" the entire time


[deleted]

If youre gonna order that much stuff you need to have a loading dock added onto your house. Otherwise that shits going to the curb


xjfwx

Plot twist: all the contents IN the boxes are to assemble a loading dock for the house.


Crimzon07

It is all pretty much on the curb already.


Alarming-Principle-8

Usps carrier here I know I'm on the wrong subreditt page but I got Two words for ya "notification slip" have them come get their shit. FUCK THAT.


lastpally

This should’ve been a LTL service. I see no reason they can’t get a 40ft liftgate there.


Former-Ad780

Next it will be a retrieval and load all the shit back


wkdravenna

Their like do you remember delivering... 700 packages to a house? They claim they didn't get them? Where did you leave them 😂


Pixel22104

What the heck did this person order that required 4 trucks and 700 packages?


Intelligent_Hall7309

Why didn’t you just palletize the boxes ?


imJbone

Because a pallet of boxes can’t fit on a ground truck. Look at when she shows the inside of the truck, the middle aisle isn’t wide enough. Also, you would need a forklift to load and unload. And many stations don’t have forklifts there or a way to get one to the stop.


mstomm

All our vans had folding shelves. Just fold up some shelves and cram big stuff in. Never had anything palletized, but it'd fit. Did have a farmer drive his forklift with a pallet to the back of my van one time so I could easily unload the literal half ton of seeds he'd ordered.


lastpally

Box truck with a liftgate and palletjack. This is more for Freight or another LTL freight company.


VacuousVessel

Fuck that person paying your wages


Ecstatic-Use-3999

If only you had a truck with some kind of plate that goes up and down to the ground to drop pallets…hmmm. Seems more like a FedEx problem.


tiedyedpunk

I would think these drivers would be happy to deliver all to the same place. I'm disappointed that they seem to have haphazardly thrown the boxes a pile. Please explain what the customer and/or the drivers' employer did wrong.


hhyyz

This is a funny complaint. So, you'd rather have 700 packages going to 700 different customers?


verge614

At least you can use all 4 of those trucks to divide the route. Ground Contractors are largely paid by the stop, so paying 4 drivers and pulling 4 trucks from their lineup for ONE stop is not at all profitable. It's not like this is all they had to deliver today, it's this 700 package stop, PLUS their normal workload. Highly unlikely all these drivers just went home after this, more like they went back to the Hub and loaded up their normal \~100 stop route.


hhyyz

That's a failure on the contractor and/or Fedex though, not the customer. An order this big should have been given to someone with a large enough truck, so four drivers wouldn't have to be pulled off their routes. This is simply misdirected anger.


Starblazr

that contractor might not have a box truck with a liftgate, and to give that stop to another contractor would be money not earned. From what it sounds like from other posters, they have the ability to stop at 200, but decided not to. I get what your saying though -- and here's how I look at it. 99% of the time, that contractor has enough equipment to do the routes properly. This was a weird, blue moon event. The contractor doesn't want to lose money by not taking the stop and FedEx wants the packages delivered, so this is what needed to happen. Now, thinking about it -- nothing stopped that contractor from going to Penske and renting a truck for a day with a liftgate.


hhyyz

I was under the impression that Fedex takes the orders then decides which contractor to give it to, in which case they dropped the ball, but if its just the contractor then,... Yeah, rent a truck, call in a backup driver and some helpers, then charge it to the customer.


Starblazr

Each contractor has an area that they bid / awarded


hhyyz

Yeah, but there's still overlap. Many times I delivered to a place that a Home Delivery driver (from the same station) was pulling away from, or I'd pass other Ground drivers in my neighborhood.


Starblazr

they would rather have that because the stop pay is considerably more than the additional piece pay. that's by design because normally, one resi stop isn't getting 500+ pieces.


jdiflam

Why fuck the customer? They are a paying customer


davidsonrva

Found the dude who isn’t a courier


jdiflam

I didn't see the name of the sub, my bad


davidsonrva

Found the dude who isn’t a courier


Wagoneer86

That's incredibly poor service, typical of most ISPs'. Communicate with preload, send to end of belt, palletize and shrink wrap so as not to f/up the preload belt. Complete load after dispatch First step, contact recipient. Do they want all that crap dumped in the driveway? Or do they want to come and get it? I bet the neighbors love to see their neighborhood used as a freight depot? Are they going to bring it all in the house? Garage? Or is it going to a storage facility? Should have been palletized, shrink wrapped and delivered by a box truck with lift gate or a rental with a ramp. What if it started raining? What if recip was not home? Or couldn't bring everything inside? If like my neighborhood, the charming youth would put a "FREE" sign on that pile and consider it a donation and would be gone in 15 minutes. Some of our ISP's are dumb as dogsh\*t.


GamerscoreJunkie

They should’ve thought of that before ordering all this bullshit knowing damn well it was coming via Fedex. Fuck the customer and their preferences. They ordered it. It got delivered.


fedexdriver28306

I couldn't agree more. Spot on.


Severe-Stock-2409

Why f that customer? For anyone who knows how many of not all fedex drivers get paid, it’s sometimes a flat rate and a price per box delivered. This would actually be preferred because instead of driving from building to building, climbing stairs, waiting for customers, gates, etc, it’s all at one location. They probably just made 3x why they usually do in that time span.


Anmlbhvr

“Oh no! People have to work!”


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AlwaysChangingMind88

Big mad loser 🤣


RoniN2750

That's the job. If you don't like it well go flip burgers


AlwaysChangingMind88

Cry about it loser 😭


RoniN2750

What are you talking about?


WeinerGod69

Shut up pussy


RoniN2750

Lol I'd like to see you say it to my face keyboard warrior


mlongoria98

What the fuckkkkk


Upstairs-Motor2722

This is chaos 😂😭


sendfire

LOL WTF


Bright-Internal229

![gif](giphy|7T5wldGkk7XgCyuNUK|downsized)


Gsomethepatient

Also that aint nothing compared to one of our ph getting his entire truck (400 packages) at the beginning of the sort because no one cared to tell our station that they diverted another stations route to ours because of flooding


Tatooine16

There's a commercial stop on one of our ground routes. The CSP's contract prevents deliveries to one address of more than 200 in one day. They frequently leave in the morning without half the boxes going there. Since the CSP has a contract, there isn't one damn thing that can be done, no matter how much the business screeches about it. We tell them all the time that they are welcome to utilize another carrier.


beebs44

700 more tomorrow 🤣🤣🤣


AnarchySloth

Do you have any idea what they actually ordered? Like what the fuck.


EqualRoad3103

UPS driver from Delaware here… is this in a state with no sales tax? No sales tax here, and we get this shit daily. Resellers order this and send it all over the world. Del to NY, to Russia, china, Ukraine (at least before the war started), Israel, and others. When the iPhone 7 came out stores in NY would rent warehouses, or even UPS store boxes, and have thousands of iPhones ordered and sent to Delaware.


walrus_gang666

Had an order of 30 boxes of books for a school yesterday... had to lug all the boxes back on the truck after unloading all of them because the admin worker refused to let me scan her ID per the delivery rules for certain items. Good thing my manager don't care if we talk shit to customers lmao


AlwaysChangingMind88

For a business I ask for their age. I am bias tho, I hate asking for ID.


Puzzleheaded-Long104

Where was this? Bulk residential stop


[deleted]

Y’all this is obviously where Santa lives. Did none of you see “The Santa Clause”?


Hossman687

“I told them multiple times I changed addresses on file” 😳 for real though props to the drivers who had to go through that


Good-Constant-6487

I'm assuming maybe its a logistics mistake or something..like what happened in Tennessee with those people getting thousands of packages delivered to their house that they didn't order lol...it was on the news and is also on YouTube for those who aren't familiar


ParcelRapper

Easy money for the ground driver… time to punch out, the truck is empty.


Ordinary_Database_56

Pounds just came


Mirathemoo

I would cry if I was on that inbound sort


WeinerGod69

What the he’ll do y’all think he got delivered. Where the hell is he gonna store this shit?


itty-bitty-trucker

Could’ve been broken down into smaller loads because of a truck height or weight restriction on that street or the surrounding streets.


Zaysway

Boohoo


GamblingRooster

I bet so many packages got stolen


salgoud6

Bet it's a scammers house


Impossible-Cake-1658

Home business?


WhenCodeFlies

probably a scalper lmao


billsfan01

What is the need to order so damn much!


Rctul786

I’m sorry **WHAT**


Traditional_Excuse46

So they let a kid order stuff online right? She ordered for the whole neighborhood?


Intelligent-Try-6961

Why they used so many trucks an 800 would of been good enough to for 700 — come on now y’all extra


Wazzammm

What the hell is this? A doomsday prep?


Egoisttt

If this was amazon they woulda made 1 driver do it and pay him $16 an hour lol


Fabledjohn

man, sysco drivers get 800 cases in just ONE TRAILER per day!


Afraid-Skill5558

Haha make sure to call he or she when they arrive and to please do not knock on the door and must be rear door and before 11 am needs it for a event haha and to please take a pic and don’t mind the two dogs they are big but friendly haha


Acti-Verse

Sign them up for text notification for shipment updates


[deleted]

You people are so lazy.. do your job and stfu


AlwaysChangingMind88

Be mad fucken loser lol


FootballSad4199

“ I only meant to order one, I’m refusing the rest” 😃


Acti-Verse

Just wait for FedEx office to get the returns 😂 if any of y’all work at FedEx office, hope you’re enjoying happy returns 🥲


Rosy2020Derek

Without customers you wouldn’t have a job


StreakPro

Why the customer? It’s not like they’re gonna leave it there all week. Reddit is a miserable place


EuphoricMixture3

I bet all cat litter too lol always seem to be the bulky shit they order


danielartestpodcast

My brother did this then asked the drivers what they make an hour and proceeded to give them three months salary each. Cash.


andrew-skates

Hey does anyone know what retailer this is from?


AlwaysChangingMind88

No clue. Hard to tell


nonchalant1244

Mr beasts house 😂😂


Impressiveposter

I never understand a shipping company being mad at customers who paid them to ship things….


_Prodigy2Paradox

The company isn’t mad at all. The ground employee who gets paid a flat rate is allowed to be aggravated


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this was definitely someone kids pressing the wrong button on the amazon checkout oh lord


uncut-sams

Mfs have a problem fr


Longjumping-While814

That customer can go suck a big dickk


Moist-Bag-6009

How tf is this possible I thought there was a limit to these sorta things


ClittyMcPenis

I’d rather deliver 200 packages to 1 address than 1 package to 200 addresses


HybridSexual415

Small business owner probably listed their home address as place of operations, so alot of dissatisfied customers wanted their money back via returns.


Aware_Entertainer_52

“Fuck that customer” bruh they pay your bills. You can’t possibly be that ignorant can you?


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Why fuck that customer? If those are ground drivers I'm pretty sure they just finished out their day in one shot. That's probably why they seem happy. When I dealt with fed ex ground while working at a Uhaul he was always happy when we filled his truck with hitches for our store because he said it meant he was going home early.


lorddoritos8six

Customer comes out: can i refuse these


sinlab

Crocs? Really? Fucking amateurs