Fed Ex - A Lazy Bunch

[Oaktree]

I have no real issues with any of the delivery services, including Amazon.
If I were to rank mine, from best to worst:
1) UPS (Very courteous, efficient)
2) Amazon (Always delivers to same location, Very friendly)
3) USPS (Consistent, though not very friendly)
4) FedEx (Consistent, though can't stay on the pavement, drives through the neighborhood way too fast)
5) DHL (Same as above,Uhgg)

Don't really have any issues either. UPS, Fedex and USPS all courteous and efficient. For a while we had 2 USPS carriers that had some sort of route-sharing deal, any mis-deliveries tended to be the same carrier every time. Haven't seen her for a while. We're toward the end of the route for UPS and Fedex, in the winter their deliveries are often after dark. Both park on the road and will leave a package either inside our enclosed porch or on the steps. USPS always on the porch.
Don't think I've ever had anything come by by DHL, Amazon doesn't deliver here.

 

[Chewwy]

Mostly, we don’t have a problem with Fedex, UPS, Amozon, or USPS deliveries.

On a few occasions, both UPS and Amazon have left packages near our gate (our gravel driveway is about 800 feet long with a circle at the end). Our gate is never shut or locked.

The few problems have always been near the Christmas holidays and involved deliveries after sunset. I chalked it up to temp drivers unfamiliar with our property. Thankfully, for Amazon deliveries we get an immediate email, although they did NOT take a picture of the gateside delivery.

Someone unfamliar with our property could well be intimidated since it can be very dark and the driveway has several curves and a steep hill on a curve.

 

[etpm]

We live in a semi-rural area, though our place is zoned rural. Most of the time the drivers are great but sometimes we get duds. Amazon seems to get the most duds. More than once I have gotten messages from Amazon that the item was not delivered because the driveway was blocked or some other BS reason. Our driveway is never blocked. We built it that way. A couple times when I had to sign for something I got messages from Amazon that said I was not home. Both times I watched the drivers go down our road past our place. Because the road is a short dead end road it wasn't long before I saw them go past our place again. I called Amazon on both of these occasions because that is just crap.
Our driveway loops past the house, so drivers, or anybody, can drive up, drop off packages, then keep on driving to meet the incoming driveway and back to the road. No backing up or anything special, just keep to the right like normal. I have had more than one driver tell me how much they appreciate this. I also made the driveway wide enough that a delivery truck can get by a parked car.
My wife has a basket on the front porch with goodies and sodas and water. I had a driver tell me that he, and all the other drivers, really appreciate this. We have a big sign at the basket telling the drivers to help themselves. Maybe this basket helps us get good service. That's not why we do it though. We just want to be neighborly.
Eric

 

[Mtsoxfan]

I wouldn't call any of our drivers lazy.
UPS, whatever they use for GPS location services, new/temp drivers always get it wrong. They go to wrong end of street. But they try, notifications etc. Regular UPS guy is great.
Fed Ex, never an issue, although I prefer the friendliness of UPS
USPS, several drivers, one, asked if inclimate weather, where should he leave packages. I leave breezeway open. Other brings packages to door, but makes poor choices on inclimate days.
We live in a very rural area, dirt roads, both UPS and Fedex drive very fast in all conditions.

 

[dstig1]

As previously said, it's all about the people. We've had good luck here with all 3 (UPS, USPS, Fedex plus Amazon too) but there have been times when we have had issues and it was due to personnel changes/temps. So Far.... fingers crossed

 

[5030]

We live in a very rural area, dirt roads, both UPS and Fedex drive very fast in all conditions.

So do we and on a dirt road with potholes too and yes they do drive fast but then they don't own the trucks anyway. Let the shop work on them. The local refuse hauler thinks this road is the Interstate.

I'm always finding car parts like mufflers and shocks in the ditch, even tools that bounce out that shadetree wrenches fail to remove from under the hoods of their beat to death jalopies. Most of the tools I find are cheapo Chinese stuff however.

 

[Mtsoxfan]

yeah, plenty of potholes here. We are on our 5th mud season...
Luckily, only people who live here are going by. An occasional worker truck, but not much traffic here. Some days I see/hear no cars.

 

[TBob42]

I know that UPS and FEDEX track every second a driver spends at a location. It affects how much time it takes to deliver something and if the loaders have buried what he's looking for, then he has to report that. If he doesn't , he'll have somebody up his old address about it. Out here Fedex uses subcontractors and their own drivers. You can tell by the vans. I bought a $12.00 hose from Cummins in Oregon up by Portland. Fedex sent it on a cross country tour to Indiana, Ohio, Arkansas, Texas and Arizona before it showed up in Reno. The vendor had already sent me a replacement. This was in 2022. That part traveled more miles than I did that year. Generally i don't leave town for anything but Doctors and Costco. We have a Napa so I'm good there. Fedex continues to redirect packages to odd destinations or using strange routes. But I keep an Esky on the porch with water in it and chuck in ice daily, except for now. I don't need to add ice. I wouldn't like to do that job, and I don't blame the drivers. You'll get some manager that arbitrarily decides the drive can't use the drive way for some lame reason. That just makes their job tougher. Usually I meet them at the truck.

 

[WM75Guy]

Our driveway is 700' of milled asphalt. House is plainly visible from the road, with plenty of driveway for a truck to turn around. Fedex and UPS started dropping off packages at the street, especially after dark. We rented a PO box at the local Ship Shop for package deliveries. It is on the way home from my wife's clinic, so she stops by and gets them. If the company says they don't ship to a PO box, we just give the street address and use a suite # instead of the box #. So far it has worked out great, haven't had a package lost or delivery refused because of the location.

 

[paulsharvey]

I have the problem of them coming up the 200 ft drive, when there is a perfectly good gate to leave the package at. Then it's a matter of paying attention enough to get the dogs locked up before they freak out the driver. Wish they all would drop at the gate