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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

well he should have put fragile stickers on it

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Having worked at FedEx, everything has fragile stickers and "this way up" arrows. If I payed attention to every notice on every package, I'd run out of room on the truck before I was even halfway through my shift. Plus I'd be spending way too much time in the truck, and I'd constantly be running down the conveyor to collect packages I missed while I was in there. The only special instructions we have the time to address are the hazmat signs. But yeah, some people literally punt packages onto their trucks, so there's a middle ground to be found.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Gonna fedex a big plastic box of diarrhoea with a cardboard lid and "this way up" painted correctly. You'll never turn my packages upside-down again.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It would've spilled long before it got to me and the local delivery trucks I'd be loading. We'd be unpacking large cross-country semis that were packed so haphazardly that unofficial protocol was to open them and run; one time I almost had a car jack land on my head that someone decided to shove in on top of a stack of boxes.

[–] spookex 2 points 1 week ago

Can confirm the semi thing, worked for a national post carrier for few months and sometimes had to help load and unload trucks for international shipments.

It would basically be us playing Tetris with the packages until about chest level, then someone would have to climb on top of that stack to fill it up to the ceiling. The smaller stuff and mail bags just get yeeted into whatever gap that exists.

Even after all that, there wouldn't be much space left, so package your stuff well I guess

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

May I dare ask who you would be delivering this to?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Good question. Myself, probably.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Don't forget the biohazard stickers

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] toynbee 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Can't speak with authority, but presumably FedEx employs packers and drivers; this person was probably speaking as a packer and referring to the truck they're packing as "the truck."

[–] TheBat 5 points 1 week ago

Is that a euphemism?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I never delivered packages, I only loaded them on the trucks. I'd usually be assigned 3-4 trucks depending on package load and how many people decided to show up that day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah gotcha, my cousin worked for ups and loaded trucks also, making the drivers mad all the time haha

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, they're always mad about something. They'll look at their trucks packed to the brim with boxes and wonder why we didn't put each and every package in the exact correct location. We'd do our best, but by the end of the day we'd just be putting them wherever they'd fit.

[–] affiliate 8 points 1 week ago

no amount of stickers will stop a rogue fedex agent from playing football with your packages

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] recklessengagement 6 points 1 week ago

WE CAN SHOW THEM NUDE CUZ THEY AINT GOT NO SOULS

[–] NABDad 7 points 1 week ago

"No, you're looking for St John's Church on Peter Street. This is St. Peter's Church on John Street."

[–] FilthyShrooms 5 points 1 week ago

"Are you going to sign for this? If not I have to put him back in the truck"

[–] lohky 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're saying, "Coffin Flop's not a show. It's just hours and hours of footage of real people falling out of coffins at funerals. There's no explanation. Just body after body busting out of shit wood and hitting pavement."

[–] otacon239 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“They say, ‘There’s no way this is happening that often that you would have countless hours of footage of bodies falling outta these coffins. You gotta be settin these up.”

[–] lohky 2 points 1 week ago
[–] Batman 3 points 1 week ago

Worked in a FedEx sorting facility and I did see a cadaver moved. Was like a laboratory one made of metal thogh, so we put on our shin guards on before kicking it

[–] capital 2 points 1 week ago
[–] RBWells 1 points 1 week ago

FedEx not bad where I live, but UPS? My friend said she always knew when they were delivering when she heard the box hit the house, they literally just hurled packages from the truck. I used to sell Avon and had to get it delivered to the local office not my house because UPS was the carrier and nothing would survive. My ex heard the driver that delivered to his work negotiating to sell the stuff on his truck.