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    Posted: 09 Nov 2024 at 7:40am
Had one of their trucks delivering next door yesterday. Driver had very loud music playing in the truck. Never seen this before. Oh well, hope he was at the right house.
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Lots of delivery trucks with Fed Ex on them are contracted from private companies/individuals and a lot of the drivers they hire are not top quality. Amazoo is the same way. If they damage something on your property, good luck in getting them to fix it. They just pass the buck back and forth unless you hire Dewey Cheatham & Howe to sue them. 
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This driver was wearing a Fed ex uniform for what that's worth. Thanks
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Very few actual deliveries by in house Fed Ex trucks and drivers around here.   Drivers around here have FedEx on their clothes, and it is a "uniform", but they are driving for and employees of a contractor.  I expect Fed Ex has then do that for the image.  The trucks have Fed Ex in big lettering with the contract carrier info in much smaller plain lettering, easy to miss when passing by on the road, most think it is an actual Fed Ex truck.
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Think a lot of that is the difference between a IRS - 1099 and a W2 of is it a employee or contractor . 
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Have to say home delivery is pretty sad including USPS. We get neighbors packages fairly often. Guess they can't find good help? Thanks
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Ray54 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 Nov 2024 at 6:50pm
Here there are 2 contractors one is ground delivers and the other I was told was air shipped. The one has the contractors name, not so much on the other.
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FedEx ground is almost always contracted out (green and blue trucks) FedEx Air (red and blue)are regular employees of FX
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green/blue here and also loud noise coming from van!!! --- colored driver but at least she speaks english!! lol!!
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I will NEVER ship anything with FedEx. If given a choice I won't have them deliver any thing to me either. Once my package was thrown out by a neighbors mailbox on another road with a house number no where near to my number. Also in my 50+ years of highway driving I've seen numerous Crash & burns of FedEx trucks. 
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They're all guilty. I witnessed an Old Dominion driver throwing boxes cuz the load was stacked out of order
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This time of year they hire extra temporary drivers, I think they may have lower standards for them.
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This is no chit, since we are talking Fedex drivers:  Just this past Saturday a Fedex truck came in my yard, the guy (with purple hair and nose/ear rings) gets out with the package. I was outside at the time so I said hey how's it going today? He says not so good, I ask why is that?  Then he says Well I accidentally filled up my diesel delivery truck with unleaded this morning, now I'm driving a backup truck. I might not have this job any more when I get back to the warehouse. I said good luck with that, and off he went.  I felt kinda bad for him even though he looked like a drug addled stoner.

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My brother did the opposite with a Volkswagen super beetle one time. $5 of diesel in the gas tank. Things would run for about 20 seconds then backfire and go dead. Smoked like crazy. Took the engine apart to rebuild and it was clean as a whistle. Then my uncle figured out what he did. They didn't think it was funny but I sure did.
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Our mailman delivers all the packages from Amazon
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I order things on AMAZON... UPS and FEDEX normally deliver the LARGER packages... No problems with either.. Both the same quality at this point..... USPS is used to deliver some SMALL packages..
Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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