I "lost" a box of dog food a coupla weeks ago. Got a message saying the
driver could not find the address. Talked to Fedex (and this is
painful), we went back and forth, I finally called Chewy and they sent
out another box for free and gave me a $25 credit too. ,Same thing with
Fedex then a day or two later. I call Fedex again and was like WTF I
get deliveries all the time my mailbox is plainly marked. So a Fedex
guy shows up a little while later and is asking me what happened, says
he will go try to find my package. he comes back a coupla hours later
with my box, said the other driver had left it at a house down the road
a bit. That made no sense, but whatever. I get the impression this
other driver was either a complete idiot or was trying to steal the dog
food. I ask this guy, who was really nice, where my other box was, did
this dumbass leave it at that house too or where was it, he must have
some record of it. The guy kinda hems and haws a bit, was vague on the
matter, which reinforced that this guy probably stole it, and the guy I
was talking too just didn't want to get into it.
A few weeks back my buddy tells me he was helping his daughter move.
She had a coupla weeks between apartments so she left her stuff at a
storage bin and stayed with the parents until the new place was
available. My buddy said they went to collect her stuff one morning
early, at two of the nearby bins there were these skanky looking people
and delivery vans loading and unloading packages into the bins. He said
it looked like Fedex contractors and they were using these bins as sorta
intermediate storage/sorting/distribution points. he thought that was
really weird. With some many hands involved it is no wonder stuff goes
missing, and it looks like these outfits are farming out a lot of their
last mile deliveries to contractors. I think Amazon is doing that too,
sometimes I get a plain white van that shows up with packages.
It's pretty crazy these days how the delivery business is working, the
explosion of online ordering the past year or so has really put the
strain on them it seems. Contracting is a good way to expand without
adding employees and trucks and facilities and infrastructure, but then
you sorta lose control of the end points.
--FT
On 6/11/21 10:42 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote:
I ordered $2500 worth of injectors for my Duramax. They were shipped FedEx with
direct signature required. After a couple of delays of when they were supposed
to show up, a guy calls me saying he tried to deliver but nobody was home.
Wanted to know if I could meet him in town. I had literally just left the house
and the wife was there, nobody rang our doorbell. I said I was gone but the
wife was home, and had been all morning. He says he will try to swing back by
later. On the fedex tracking is says delivery exception customer not available,
and was rescheduled for the next day. I told wife to make sure to be home next
day to sign for it. She says they delivered a box and handed it to her but did
not have her sign anything. It was the injectors. This has been several days
ago and tracking still shows the same status. If I wanted to be a real ass I
could claim I have not received the box and make fedex pay for it.
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