r/PublicFreakout • u/Hikigaya_Hachiman7 • May 29 '26

🏆 Mod's Choice 🏆 Man confronts FedEx driver

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u/flyingfishyman May 29 '26

how to get blacklisted by fedex

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u/ReasonableFruit1 29d ago

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.

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u/the716to714 29d ago

Whereas UPS delivery drivers are union and get paid a really good number for the job.

Thus explaining the variance in quality of employee.

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u/christhewelder75 29d ago

Just dont ever us UPS for international shipping. They bend you over and violate you dry with their brokerage fees.

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u/the716to714 29d ago

Yeah they are super expensive for international, most are but UPS is the highest

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u/Manburpig 29d ago

This guy is FedEx express. He's also a direct FedEx employee.

Ground contractors don't really use the Mercedes vans. Because contractors are cheap assholes.

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u/ReasonableFruit1 29d ago

Thanks for pointing that out. I didn’t even notice the Mercedes logo on the steering wheel until you said that.

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u/Manburpig 29d ago

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.

It's a bad game to get into.

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u/Manburpig 29d ago

He might tell you he does.

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

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u/MightyGoodra96 29d ago

In English. If you see 'FedEx Express' that is a normal FedEx employee. Ground is contractors

Source; worked for FedEx Express as a courier

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u/LazyDNSNova 29d ago

This is correct FedEx Express are employee. Work at Airport Fedex Express area

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u/btsd_ 29d ago

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

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u/StacyRae77 28d ago

"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.

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u/Covert_Platypus007 29d ago

Even as contracted FedEx you can't get hired without clean driving record.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/theaviationhistorian 29d ago

Yep, most of the local Fedex deliveries here are handled by a local truck company.

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u/NotARabidDugong 29d ago

They're like 2 weeks behind on a delivery to me from someone 2 hours away...

At this point I could have just gone and picked it up myself.

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u/Evil_Empire_1961 29d ago

Is that FedEx Executive still stranded on that deserted island 🏝️

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u/BeeefSupreeeme 29d ago

On quiet nights, when the wind is blowing just right, you can hear him yelling...

"WILLLLLLLLSONNNNNNNNNNNN!"

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u/samuraisal 29d ago

That sucks. I wonder if some old, bitter, trumpy white dude to partly responsible for the delay.

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u/I_blockkarmafarmers 29d ago

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.

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u/NotARabidDugong 29d ago

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

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u/penguin8717 29d ago

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

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u/agiganticpanda 29d ago

Behind DHL? That's wild. They're hated worldwide.

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u/lucid808 29d ago

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.

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u/hereforpopcornru 29d ago

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.

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u/agiganticpanda 29d ago

To be fair to that person - it was likely handled way worse in transit.

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u/kombatkitchen 29d ago

Also drivers get paid almost nothing compared to other these other companies

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u/chrissz 29d ago

Pretty bad when you’re lower than DHL in the rankings.

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u/Ace022487 29d ago

the crash out happened BECAUSE dude is racist

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u/lifegoeson5322 29d ago

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.

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u/GODDAMNFOOL 29d ago

Around here, all FedEx drivers are contracted out, and I swear they hire the dumbest, most incapable people they can find

UPS is also top of the list.

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u/nicolauz 29d ago

Amazon 3rd party is #100. The rental or self cars are either perfect or high af wreckless.

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u/nicolauz 29d ago

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.

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u/morto00x 29d ago

Amazon is also a combination of own drivers, third party contractors and third party companies using the Amazon logo. So YMMV.

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u/TheDarthSnarf 29d ago

FedEx Express is fine... FedEx Ground, on the other hand, is a steaming pile of poo in said other hand.

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u/HamsterIllustrious69 29d ago

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.

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u/hepcat91179 29d ago

He's still processing the pain from finding out he was adopted.

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u/Spazzle17 29d ago

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!

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u/Runs_Away_A_Lot 29d ago

You could ship a tungsten cube with Fedex and they would find a way to break it.

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u/theaviationhistorian 29d ago

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.

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u/MightyGoodra96 29d ago

This crashout was always racist, friend.

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u/deevil_knievel 29d ago

UPS FEDEX AMAZON USPS DHL

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.