Posted on 07/26/2013 7:04:18 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
A FedEx worker spotted in Midtown Manhattan this week might want to consider trying out for the Olympics.
A driver for the eponymous shipping company was spotted Wednesday throwing packages into her truck like shot put balls. She even appeared to give lessons in proper throwing etiquette to another person who wanted in on the package tossing fun.
The two can even be seen laughing at one point in the video uploaded to YouTube.
The FedEx employee is initially seen throwing stacks of shipping boxes into the truck while her cohort appears to be keeping her makeshift shotputs in a neat stack to her right.
The video, according to its description, was taken around 6:15pm Wednesday night
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Big deal. Maybe they knew who the sender was and knew what the contents in the boxes were.
I had a delivery from UPS recently where the box containing what I had ordered was made of 1/2 inch plywood. It was built with 1 1/2 inch staples. The thing was like a coffin. UPS destroyed it, and the second one that was sent to replace it. The third time was a charm. They paid for each of the first two replacements at a cost of thousands of dollars each. Neither Fex-Ex or UPS wants to bash stuff and when they do they track it back to the handlers and drivers who know if they break things they don’t get to do that very long and keep their job.
I agree those where hardly Handle With Care packages. They where exactly the same thing in every box. Legal documents or tax records. IE Paperwork. I am sure they got to their recipients in good order.
Lots f busy bodies these days, besides it is not like it was a government organization. If you don’t like UPS try FedEx or DHL.
The movie “Castaway” was practically a long commercial for Fed Ex, the opening of the movie takes place in Moscow, where Hanks’ character is trying to teach the Russians how to be efficient. Gives a pretty good insight into how Fed Ex approaches things.
All good points, except that the important thing here is PERCEPTION. If would-be customers believe that FedEx is so casual and sloppy about their items, then their perception is that their valuables might be broken or lost in transit. Reality says that a box of paperwork is going to be just fine, but marketing is rarely all about reality.
This is the free market in action. cockroaches don’t like it when the light shines on their bad behavior.
Um, in the industry, parcel handling is called throwing packages. If you are not personally comfortable with dropping your own package from a height of 8 feet to a concrete floor, drive it yourself or pack it better.
Just an insider’s perspective.
The real problem here, and one that is prevalent in many lines of work, is that by being lazy and not properly stacking the boxes, they’re creating more work later on (probably for someone else).
That does not appear to me to be the most efficient way to load a truck.
That said, from the looks of this, these are pickups and are likely to be put into an automated sorting system that probably doesn’t care if the boxes are neatly stacked when the truck arrives.
Possible that no matter how carefully things are stacked, the jostling of the truck in traffic tosses them all over the inside anyway, so why bother trying to keep it all in order.
It does, however, seem to tarnish Fedex’s image of efficiency and care. Maybe I’m lucky, but I’ve shipped and received through Fedex, UPS, USPS, and DHL when they were in the business. Fedex has been far and away the best at getting packages to their destination on time and undamaged.
It would sure be a lot harder unloading that truck when the boxes/envelopes are all jumbled together.
If they were stacked, you could pick them up and unload much faster.
Remember “Ace Ventura” as a delivery man?
Haha, somewhere I have pictures of a shipping crate we sent via UPS with special treatment guaranteed and paid for safe uneventful transit and insured for $150,000. It's a forlorn little thing all by it's lonesome on the loading dock, smashed and splintered.
With a tire tread mark right across the middle of it, and all of the expensive guts squeezed out the corners. Took us 8 months to get the insurance check.
Before I went to college, I spent a few weeks working for DHL (unionized) and MOST workers just threw the packages literally not only from the truck but on the conveyor belt. They didn’t care either as they were unionized.
I’ve dealt with some vendors that refuse to use UPS for anything, because of the wanton destruction of the shipments. They use FedEx instead.
Fred isn’t going to be happy about this
The term ‘air mail’ means from the back of the truck to the front of the truck.
Used to work for an outfit that shipped a lot of tech hardware. All our packaging systems were ‘crush-tested’ by and engineering firm.
Any bets that this video was taken from the cab of a DHL or UPS van?
That’s an outtake from The King of Queens, isn’t it?
i seriously doubt this is real. first of all, the way they threw those boxes, there couldn’t be much, if anything in them. secondly,the manner in which they were left in the truck would make their deliveries nigh on impossible. if you had to deliver these things, would you throw them about like that?
Um, in the industry, parcel handling is called throwing packages. If you are not personally comfortable with dropping your own package from a height of 8 feet to a concrete floor, drive it yourself or pack it better.
Its a cost-benefit thing. If you want special handling, do it yourself or be prepared to pay extra.
On the same subject, package logistics is an incredible art.
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