Fed Ex - A Lazy Bunch

[R_Walter]

My property is in a semi-rural area. My house is about 400 feet from the road.
I have a gate at the road and my driveway is paved with a large turnaround in front of my garage.
I get an email notification from Fed Ex when deliveries are coming, and I open the gate well in advance.
However, A few months ago, FedEx started leaving my deliveries at the road rather than bringing them to the house.
Always before then they brought the deliveries to the house.
Has anyone else had this type of change with FedEx?
UPS brings packages to the house.
thanks

A gate or the sign "Beware of Dog" is like a free 'get out of jail' card to those drivers who are lookin for excuses.

 

[kenmbz]

I have a sign by my mailbox that says.

Do not leave packages here, they get stolen.

Amazing how often Fedex leaves packages right in front of the sign.
At least I can find them there, they used to get creative on leaving packages in random places. Including in a snow drift, center of driveway, roadside drainage trench, and even once in a snow pile by my neighbors a few hundred feet away and not near any driveway. Found in the spring......

Even in heavy snow the UPS and Amazon people put the packages in plastic up by the garbage cans about 15 feet off the road.

 

[John0829]

Any orders we have I specify UPS if I have the option, Fedex only delivers when they have multiple stops in our area. We once had a single package held up for nearly a week before they other packages to deliver near by. Plus they are not nearly as friendly, we know all the UPS drivers by name and usually have a brief conversation but Fedex drivers throw the package and run.

 

[fatjay]

I just watched my fedex driver do the slow walk up 200' with 2000 rounds of ammo, then walked down, then walked back up with 300 egg cartons. He set the ammo on the chair on the front porch, which I don't mind.

 

[Hay Dude]

They also lie.
My wife was told a package worth $25 was attemted to be delivered at 5:59PM to our home last night. Problem is, it wasn’t.

1. I was working in my house garage. Nobody came here in that time frame.
2. We have cameras everywhere and there’s no sign of a fed ex truck on our property.
3. Driver emailed my wife and said he attempted delivery but couldn’t do it because it required a signature verification.

We specifically noted NO sig verification. The item was a typical $25 thing from Amazon, but she needed it for work today.

 

[kenmbz]

I find that with Amazon too , the "attempted" delivery is usually the truck was overloaded and it looks like the driver would have to work past their shift.

 

[paulsharvey]

Just 20 minutes ago, FedEx dropped a huge Styrofoam cooler wuth a dry ice warning off on the porch. Didn't order anything, and checked address before opening (which I don't really feel is my responsibility), and it was for someone 3 miles away, on totally different road, and the numbers weren't even close.

After checking address, and realizing it was wrong, I did make sure it wasn't Omaha Steaks, but was Nuetri system, so I ran it down the road and left it in the driveway.

If it was Omaha Steaks or something good, I might have opened it...

Edit: mostly joking about opening it; but I don't routinely check the address of packages, and I do feel it's on the delivery company to drop off at the right house

 

[Hay Dude]

I find that with Amazon too , the "attempted" delivery is usually the truck was overloaded and it looks like the driver would have to work past their shift.

Stupid how they lie and say they “attempted to deliver” when people can clearly see with their outside cameras nobody attempted to deliver.
Don’t be takin me for some sucker.

 

[ponytug]

They also lie.
My wife was told a package worth $25 was attemted to be delivered at 5:59PM to our home last night. Problem is, it wasn’t.

1. I was working in my house garage. Nobody came here in that time frame.
2. We have cameras everywhere and there’s no sign of a fed ex truck on our property.
3. Driver emailed my wife and said he attempted delivery but couldn’t do it because it required a signature verification.

We specifically noted NO sig verification. The item was a typical $25 thing from Amazon, but she needed it for work today.

Whenever they do that, I call our local dispatch office and have a chat with a supervisor. While occasionally I get some pushback, when I point out that there was no door tag, they pretty rapidly say that they will have a chat with the driver. It happens less frequently now than it used to, but way more than UPS.

I find that with Amazon too , the "attempted" delivery is usually the truck was overloaded and it looks like the driver would have to work past their shift.

I had a chat with one of "our" Amazon drivers about that, and he said that if he runs out of time, and he returns to the distribution center, the system automatically codes it as an attempted delivery, even if he was never close. I will say that it almost never happens.

We recently had a tree leaning 45 degrees across the county road a couple of miles away. After it was reported, the County helpfully came out and put up fold out road signs. "DANGER: Power Wires Down". The only issue was there weren't any power lines down, and the wire the tree was leaning on was actually an armored, and steel wrapped, telephone burial cable about 2.5" diameter, suitable for fastening ocean going vessels. (Yeah, I know, burial cable routed along poles. Rather indicative of the telephone wires hereabouts that seem to be both old, a Rube Goldberg mix of kinds of wire, and burial/aerial, with no apparent rhyme or reason.) I didn't blame the driver for not driving around the signs and leaning tree, and deciding to come back another day. "Discretion is the better part of valor..." and all that.

All the best,

Peter

 

[Tpondel]

FedEx should change their motto to ...

When it absolutely, positively has to get there at some point.