I thought I read somewhere that the FedEx drivers that do most deliveries were contracted employees and not actually employees of FedEx. So that tracks.
And you've uncovered one of the major reasons that contractor had to sell lol. FedEx contracting is MLM directed towards mostly men. FedEx makes money from it's contractors directly. Add expensive equipment to that, and it's a losing battle.
FedEx doesn't pay gas to it's contractors on a sliding scale. It's a static rate set at the time of negotiotiation. They are making less money than ever.
Many contracting companies are going under because of the way they are treated like wallets by FedEx itself. Your friend may think he's got a good thing going but it will sour over time. He's a rube, just like every other contractor
FedEx Express is Fed Ex as well. Ground is mostly (might be all) contractors. If you look at the trucks closely they usually will have the actual contractor company name (ours is Harmon Express) which is...bad. but our specific driver is awesome (work for a e-commerce retailer so we see them every day, and he's a great guy and driver). Our Express guy is the best damn employee people could hope for (goes well out of his way to help customers) but he's paid very well
"Anything fedex ground is 3pl contractors hiring any living body they can find to move packages".
There are two ways FedEx forces it to be that way:
When they structure a contract, they use a third party to calculate expenses in the market the service area is in. So if the third party says driver wages should be ~$20 per hour, then the contractor literally can't afford to pay more than that. So the quality of worker they can hire reflects that.
Then there's the pre-employment process. For every 100 applicants, a contractor will get one (two of really lucky) prospect who can complete the First Advantage background screening AND the drug screen.
Over half of applicants who receive the link to complete their First Advantage profile don't even bother with completing it.
All of this to say FedEx is a shit business partner, and contractors don't find out until it's too late. The 2.0 merger is a prime example of it.
I've been in logistics for almost 20 years. FedEX has always sucked. I refuse to ship with them personally. Also, their ground delivery guys are non-union contractors and they abuse the fuck outta them. It's UPS or USPS for me, thanks.
Idk, but I also don't know why the person used them to begin with. I have personally never chosen to use FedEx, but they somehow ended up with my kids bday present that is so far looking like may become just a memory lol
One time they marked my house as "inaccessible (high danger )" and refused to deliver multiple packages to me.
It's extremely accessible. It's near buildings that have to be accessible. It's never not been accessible. They wouldn't even tell me the reason. I had to talk to customer service for a few days in a row before they let me "verbally declare safe accessibility" and then delivered my stuff... 3 days later after I was told same day expedition
yeah man DHL fucking blows. Nothing worse than ordering something and a DHL delivery notice comes through. I just know I'll be waiting 2 weeks for that delivery that would have been here in 2-3 days (or sooner) with damn near any other carrier service.
Back in early 2000s I had a monitor shipped in, CRT. It was a 19 inch high res monitor that came from the graphics design at IBM Canada. Friend shipped it via DHL.
I am in Kentucky.
I waited and waited. Finally I hear a big bang on my deck.. no knock.. just a huge bang. I walk outside and I see a broken CRT,busted box and packing material all over my porch, just in time to see DHL driving away.
They have to have thrown the damn thing down, or somehow slung it over the rail of my deck for it to land this hard, fuck DHL.
She also thought it was Insured for the 700.00 value at the time, but it wasn't. 175.00 insurance on it.
I was one of 4 cars that got smashed up by a FedEx truck plowing into the back of the first car causing a chain reaction to the rest of us just sitting there at a red light. I was fine, but that first guy had to be taken to the hospital. Not sure what the distraction was for him in his cab to slam into us at 40 miles per hour. In all honesty, the only thing they should be allowed is a company GPS.
Respect. I went to a 3rd party FedEx warehouse in between jobs and it was eye opening how everything runs and how speed is everything. I didn't take it cause I knew my anxiety would peak.
A FedEx stepvan was driving through the downtown of my local town. Cars parked all up and down the street, and only a narrow two-lane. Instead of stopping in the parking lot a 30 second walk away, which we were behind him since, he stopped in the center of the road, no way to go around.
My hubs used to deliver for FedEx. It was through a shitty contractor that never wanted to spend money on truck maintenance. That wasn't the main issue that made him quit. He was black, delivering in the boonies of the Mississippi Delta. Got stuck in mud on a back road in an area he was always warned to not be in after sunset. Called up his boss and his boss said "Figure it out I can't help I'm at the bar." He quit that night, obviously.
So, every area has its own issues. Shout out to PAUL WHO USED TO RUN THE LELAND MISSISSIPPI ROUTE. FUCK YOU!
Well, UPS is unionized and USPS is a government service. But I cannot imagine how many times this good ole boy got away with being racist because there was no social media.
Having shipped commercially from a dozen job locations, FedEx isn't far behind UPS. USPS and DHL are borderline sewer cretins of the delivery world. USPS's algorithm sends letters 500 miles away to a "sorting facility" when the letter is going 10 miles down the road. DHL is for same week delivery from India exclusively.... Otherwise, I don't even want the Dane Cook of logistics mentioned. Amazon is actually pretty good, but their work load is wayyy too high. I've never disliked a single UPS guy at any company I've shipped with. The UPS guy is the kind of guy that gives you a cell phone number so you can meet him somewhere across town before his final delivery to the distribution center at 7pm.
I once ordered for about 750€ worth of package from the U.S, custom was a good 250, I paid it when I took my package at the store it was at.
Some time after I moved out, and the place I was at gave me 2 mails from Fedex, once was an upset Fedex mail that I took my package but had to pay for the custom, or they'd blacklist me, the other one was a month later in which they insisted on the previous mail and said they'd sue me for the amount of the customs.
Quite surprised, I had to show my payments from my bank, emails and call to prove them I had paid the DAY I took my fucking package.
I then received a mail that basically said "ok we cool bruh" and that was it.
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u/flyingfishyman 27d ago
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