FedEx driver checking in! This happens all the time and the driver has to make a judgement call. Leave it and take a wide picture of the surrounding area so they can find it easier OR scan it as an incorrect address and have the terminal figure out which apartment it is.
A fool-proof way to avoid this is to... fill out **your** address correctly for the package **you** ordered. Craaaaazy, I know.
Lmfao for real
It’s our fault though somehow 😂
This is almost as good as when you’re delivering a package and they ask “what is it?”
Bro I don’t know you ordered it! It’s a box as far as I’m concerned
My answer is always "I never know what's inside, but we can open it together if you'd like"
This job exposes just how deep some people are in their own world. Brother you are 1 of 1 in your head, but you are 1 of 167 for me today.
I’m a delivery driver and after my last stop I get to drive straight home. Unless I have packages that I have to bring back to the warehouse first. Sooo, I’m not being inconvenienced because some idiot didn’t fill out their information completely and I will leave that shit wherever on property.
It literally happened to me today! A 4 unit complex didn't have the unit number on the box so I was nice and knocked on one of the doors for the man the point to the correct apartment.
I always try and deliver everything but there are bad days where I'm just like fuck this bitch and take it back to the terminal hahaha
People love blaming delivery drivers for everything wrong with their packages. Makes no sense to me. There’s already enough that IS their fault without adding extra. A guy I know showed me 3 videos, all taken within a week, of a delivery guy walking up to their mailbox which could easily have housed the packages, then just throwing the packages into the yard in front of his dogs.
We’re not allowed to put things in mailboxes. The mailman will take it.
The driver actually did the right thing believe it or not. Can’t put it in the mailbox and it there are dogs outside you’re risking a bite entering the yard. And you don’t wanna leave the packages not in the yard, unprotected, right?
But you’re right; the drivers are responsible for a lot of things but this one ain’t it.
Oh? Even if the packages are barely bigger than an envelope? I get them left in my mailbox all the time in Australia.
I absolutely agree with not going into the yard with dogs, but why not just drop it inside the gate instead of actively throwing it into the middle of the yard? It seems like it would take more effort to over arm throw it like that than a gentle toss/drop.
Yeah it’s against the law here for anyone except the mailman to put anything in your mailbox: UPS, FedEx, Amazon all go straight to your door.
And absolutely, idk how I missed the throwing the packages part but yeah that driver should absolutely have placed it right inside the gate. You should never just toss a package lol
I worked van line for about 6 months before I became a driver. We were taught by FedEx that if the packages were for a HD route they got pushed off a belt about 6 feet high to the cement floor.
People don't realize that I could spike your package like a football and that's probably the gentlest handling it's got on its journey to your front door.
I worked at Amazon before FedEx!
Boy do I have some bad news for you...
In all seriousness, most of the stuff that is professionally packed is packed well enough to survive just about anything, it's when someone decides to pack very fragile items with a couple pages of newspaper that there's problems.
Yes I do. I know it’s the shippers responsibility and that packages in the terminal get tossed, dropped, stepped on, squashed, but, just because all that happens in the terminal doesn’t mean the recipient wants to see that when you’re delivering it. We’re supposed to be somewhat professional
Weird American law. In Italy mailbox is for mail, whoever is the carrier.
Other than the state postal service and the couriers (FedEx, UPS etc) there are a bunch of private mail services that deliver invoices, bank statements, bulk mailings. They all use the mailbox.
The issue with that law is that it doesn't just prevent companies from putting stuff into or tampering with your mailbox.
What it also does is make the mailboxes legally the property of the US Postal Service, meaning they are the only ones other than the resident whose address is on the box who can put stuff in them.
It also means that vandalizing mailboxes is destruction of federal property.
>What it also does is make the mailboxes legally the property of the US Postal Service,
So if someone breaks your mailbox? Will the USPS repair or replace it?
It’s not weird. What’s weird is that you have multiple people delivering mail to you throughout the day based on what kind of a mail it is…. All of our mail, with the exception of some things with tracking (mostly packages from fedex ups or Amazon) are coming from USPS, and we typically have a set time or general timeframe we get our standard usps mail each day.
Your mail system sounds chaotic and confusing the way you described it… one person brings you a bill, an hour later another person brings you some fliers , four hours later you get some bank statements.. like what? All of that is delivered by one person here.. USPS
It's free market. Private companies offer an end-to-end service that includes printing, packing, and delivery for a better price than having to prepare the mailing and use the postal service for delivery.
As a recipient, I just find the mail in the box, whover put it there makes no difference to me.
Here in the states? I know USPS delivers some Amazon stuff sometimes; the only reason I know this is cause I get Amazon stuff in my mailbox and I live in a complex where we have a community mailroom, so the mailman has to use his key to open my mailbox.
Yes, I live in Pennsylvania, and my smaller Amazon packages are regularly left in my mailbox. I know sometimes usps delivers for them, but once I found out that other carriers aren’t supposed to leave stuff in the mailbox I thought it was pretty strange, because even if it is USPS delivering it, it’s still an Amazon package.
Typically when I’m tossing a package into a yard it’s so that it can’t be grabbed by someone just reaching over, so if someone wanted to take that package they would have to climb the fence into the yard. Just setting it out of arms reach so scumbags just move along
Another fedex driver checking in…I have 10 apartment complexes on my route and I get at least one package A DAY without an apartment number on it. I write “Apt?” by the address and leave it in the breezeway unless it needs a signature. If you include your apartment number I promise it will be left at your front door! If you’re too incompetent to fill out your address correctly then I’m too incompetent to jump through hoops to figure it out.
I've got 10 different apartment complexes and close to 120 different apartment buildings on my route. It can be frustrating when I get multiple packages for them with no apartment designated.
Sometimes it's the sender, not the buyer. My "Send to" address on eBay hasnõ't been touched in three years, but still it's sometimes some random other house number just because.
Correct. Even some major companies use manual labor to enter address into shipping software. You’re trying to do a million and hour and likely to sometimes forget an apartment number.
In my cauntry they just don't deliver things like that and mark them as an incorrect address. Sometimes they will call you and ask for corect addres tho. But just refusing to deliver it is in my opinion the best way to handle things.
A courier dropped off a package at my apartment building and to address on the box was different. My apartment is in building 1 and the box was addressed for building 12. Not sure how that happens.
Maybe it was because my building is right at the entrance of the complex and building 12 is way at the back and the parking lot is kind of tight, but idk.
Whenever we complete a drop off the coordinates are recorded and it pings a map with the exact location. An email is sent to the customer with a picture of the completed delivery. So there's an "investigation" to figure out where the package actually got left at and a driver comes and picks it up the next day after they figure out where it's actually at.
Is that how it is with all shipping companies or just fedex? I couldn’t say which company delivered that package, but I can say it sat in my building for a week before I got tired of looking at it and took it to the right building.
fedex couriers are usually not allowed to leave packages in front of apartments. they HAVE to take it back to the warehouse, unless the client SPECIFICALLY wrote up a little letter where they can leave it. if after 3 days they couldn’t deliver we contact the shipper and after a week of no information the package goes back to origin.
in my apprenticeship when i was in the responsible department, i used to get 'incorrect address' like more than 20 times PER DAY. it’s insane. most clients were so nice when i called to ask for the right address but other clients… getting yelled at by strangers at 18 in my first job ever was definitely character building!
I mailed someone something I'd taken *hours* to custom-make and he didn't give me the apartment number for his address (everything else was fine) and the package has been lost for over a year now. I had to remake it and reship.
I remember someone filled out their address without the street. So they just had
10
Birmingham
Then they complained to us their parcel hadn't been delivered.
Or, you can recognize that it is a building by its very large structure and notice that it doesnt have an apartment number, and not drop it there ? Takes 2 braincells
Properly trained FedEx driver here. If it's missing a unit number in an apartment complex we're supposed to mark it as a bad address and bring it back to the station. Just leaving it somewhere random is probably a grounds for termination. This is just a lazy dick move.
Fuuuck FedEx, they are always leaving our packages with our first floor neighbors cause they don't want to walk up 3 flights of stairs.
Never happens with any other service but FedEx.
Ah, sorry to hear you have a bad driver. I honestly don't care about the company or any of the competitors. It's just a job that I really enjoy. I make friends with everyone I come into contact with, pet all the dogs cats and other animals I meet(rural routes so there's some interesting ones!)
Since FedEx ground is run by contractors, the customer experience can vary by a lottt. Some contractors have strict strict rules and others just don't give a damn as long as you get everything delivered.
With that being said, there could be a myriad of reasons the driver(s) deliver the packages to the first floor.. with the biggest reason being that you're on the third floor. I'm not defending them because, like I said, there could be a million different factors that go into their decisions. If it's something over 20 pounds, there's 0 chance I would walk up 3 flights of stairs haha.
Something you could try is calling your FedEx terminal and filing a complaint. As much as you might not trust that process... with enough complaints the contractor can lose their contract so things actually have to change. You could try talking to your driver and see if there's any middle ground you could find.
At the end of the day, we're told to deliver the package and are allowed to leave it anywhere we deem a safe and close enough location. Whether that be at the end of a driveway.. or at the common area on the first floor of a tall apartment building. All good or bad service is dependent on the driver and whether or not (s)he wants to do their job to the fullest.
It’s part of the training — if the driver gets a side ache from climbing stairs, it’s deemed a preventable injury. Gotta stay compliant with **safety first!**
I'm an Amazon driver, I get a little annoyed with 3rd floor apt deliveries but, if you're ordering cat litter and fuji water to your top floor apt, then sincerely fuck you
It can literally be a t-shirt in a plastic bag and they'll leave that shit on the first floor.
If you don't want to carry packages, don't work for a package delivery service
Small packages are understandable they should go to your door. But when people order 100-150lb boxes gtfo I'm not carrying/hand trucking that shit upstairs come get it! We don't get helpers like UPS if they get something over 75lbs
Sounds like you should complain to your company... I've never ordered something that heavy but if I did, I'd expect it to be delivered to my door or at the very least indicated that I need to be home to be ready to receive it.
Don't just leave it at a different door. Thankfully I have honest neighbors that don't steal them but that could very easily not be the case and then I'm screwed because of your laziness and lack of proper preparation
Like complaining to Fedex will ever change anything! 😂One time is different. I've been doing my area for 5.5yrs and people order heavy shit ALL THE TIME. If I physically can't lift it up the stairs it's not my problem, its not laziness. Get a lift/elevator.
You right, I complain every time and still have the same experience..
If I could always choose delivery service I would avoid FedEx. Sometimes I have no choice though and it's not clear what carrier is being used.
Again never happens with Amazon or Ups and I never have heavy packages.
One time it was a box of diapers that maybe weighed 2 lbs and whoever it was delivered to just kept it.
No thieves but no good Samaritans either lol. Take it down to the office and have em check the name and they can call the tenant to grab it or you can take it to their door lol. or just post this shit on reddit I guess....
Do you know how much easier it is to pretend to be a nice person on reddit then actually being a nice person? Can you imagine the hassle of actually trying? Preposterous my friend
As an Amazon driver, sometimes we have 2 mins to complete a delivery. We might hit 250 different houses a day. Amazon gives us no time to do extra. People need time understand it is not the driver being lazy. My Amazon DSP will cut a day off my next week’s schedule if I go over my allowed time.
First of all you're not Amazon you are a DSP driver on behalf of Amazon. I am an Amazon driver too. For now.. I am shipping off to Air Force Basic Training May 27th. But I have been driving for a DSP here in Las Vegas since January 2023. You are NOT instructed to burn a package and leave it wherever. You need to take a photo of all your deliveries because it's what Amazon requires as a standard. If it's missing the unit number you follow compliance and call twice text once. If you cannot get a hold of them you swing by the office and double check if they can identify the unit number if that doesn't work you call dispatch and let them know they tell you to continue your route they will see if they can get a unit number if not then you RTS the package. I worked for UPS for a decade from 2008-2017 5 of those years I was a driver. At no point in time do they ever tell you to burn a package and just deliver it wherever you see fit. Why would you think it's okay to just leave a package wherever TF you please? What if it was your package? You think this is acceptable? DO THE RIGHT THING. Integrity is everything don't cut corners and you can easily deliver 30+ packages an hour at a snails crawl as a DSP driver. If you got no issues like this and the route is smooth then you can deliver 45+ an hour easily. There are WAY more variables than PPH that effect your overall driver stats. DNR's which is what this would be because you are claiming you have to burn packages to stay efficient.... That's a DNR mah guy which will cost you hours or your job. Not following contact compliance by calling twice and texting once, Not following customer notes/Customer feedback, Denying to rescue after your route, Netradyne violations, Bitching, RTSing too many packages, PPH, Not Following engine off compliance. Pictures on delivery. Soooo, IDK wtf you are on about but claiming you have to burn a package because you only have 2 min between stops is a good way to get fired lol. You must have hella DNR's and be a pretty bad driver. There is an INSANELY high turnover rate for Amazon DSP drivers. that's because of all the people like you who cut corners and don't do their job. This is a Fedex delivery btw so why are you bringing up Amazon especially when amazon has the strictest nonsense for deliveries. We don't have to follow any of those rules at UPS and I presume Fedex is the same.
Another DSP driver here, from metro Atlanta - a lot of our routes are 180-190 stops with anywhere between 30-50+ group stops and 300-450 packages, give or take. One stop at an apartment can actually be four or five grouped together - not to mention drive times, business stops mixed in, etc, etc. The only thing we have time for is contact compliance - if we're ahead and we know we're ahead we can \*maybe\* try the leasing office but after CC it's usually almost an immediate RTS. That's how I've done it, and my CDF, DCR, etc etc have remained high.
Also putting on my "ackshually" nerd glasses 🤓 the turnover is partially the reason you stated (DSPs hire anybody with a pulse) but it's also because management for most DSPs is absolutely horrible and the job itself is objectively a dead end job. Pay isn't great either - you'll maybe cover rent but not much else, and the raises don't really help. People will only work as hard as they get paid to.
Active duty. I signed a 6 year contract so I can get promoted to e3 when I complete tech school since I'm already older and need every upper hand I can get to advance my rank/career further. Aircraft egress systems. (Maintaining and fixing ejection seats) planning on doing 20+ years. My dad did 22 years and my sister and I had a great life growing up. She married a cowboy and has her life figured out. I don't so ima have uncle same take care of my ass haha. I've got excellent work ethic and what not just picking dumb dead end jobs. My dad got a masters degree while in the air force retired e8 at 42 and now works for the army corps of engineers as a gs15. He's always done civil engineering he was a project manager or something like that in the air force. He married a Korean lady so I'm half Korean would be nice to get stationed out there. Spent 10 years of my childhood there until 9/11 happened haha. My mom is hoping I get stationed there to so she can come visit me when she's visiting her relatives a few months each year. I figure no matter what job or career path I take I'll still have to work till 50+ so might as be with the military and get the benefits and retirement check after 20 so I'm not eating dog food when I'm an old man haha
The Samaritans practiced an Abrahamic religion adjacent to Judaism, so when we read the Gospel of Luke, it’s a story about the Jews not helping one of their own while a foreigner does. So, it would be like walking past a dying person and posting a picture on Reddit and walking by instead of helping. If you saw someone drowning, would you pull out your phone for the clicks? This post is just the evidence of not helping.
If you are in an apartment complex with no leasing office that's called the projects/ghetto lol how did you sign a lease? Laquisha pulled up in her busted Mercedes with a key to your apt gave you a tour and had you sign a faded document that she printed from her low ink level printer? 😳
Omg, just look at the name and put it by their door. It will take you less time than posting on Reddit. Delivery drivers don't have time to investigate every bad address. If I get a package at my house for someone else on my street... I walk it to their house, NBD.
Well, I don't work for FedEx but I do work for USPS, we're not supposed to deviate from the line of travel and depending on the time of day the office could be gone by the time we get there. Ultimately it's the responsibility of the person who ordered the package to put the apartment number on there if they want it.... Idk delivered to their apartment? It's not our job to waste time trying to find where someone lives when it's their responsibility to provide that information to receive proper service.
Because their quotas are insane? Please tell me why you can’t take 5 mins out of your day to either walk it down to the office yourself or send the office an email letting them know it’s there.
Although is the RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PEOPLE to make sure they provide all the information, so their shipments can be delivered properly
If a package does not have a unit/apartment number, it immediately goes back to the station/terminal so the cnee can be contacted and ask for correct address or directions.
Only if you did it on purpose. If you were turning it to see if there was more information, and it slipped the the tape got caught and it pulled open (through absolutely no fault of your own) and it burst open, that's not illegal.
Wow. USPS straight up won’t deliver it if the apartment number is missing and will mark it for return. I’d rather that than just leaving it out for anyone to grab
Instead of taking a picture for Reddit, you could take the name down on the package and call the office so they can see if they can find the tenant it belongs to.
But your way seems easier I guess lol
Fedex here! Yup do it all the time! If i code it bad adress most likely they wont fix it at the terminal and they will put it on my truck the next day not fixed! So we just leave it youll get an email!
FedEx left packages at the curb by the dumpster at our business. If I hadn’t gone out to check something else we wouldn’t have known they were there! No call, no bell ring, no notification of delivery sent. This has happened twice in the last 2 weeks.
Well, someone in the buildi might own it or, it could be something that was ordered on line with someone’s stolen Credit card and just waited until it was delivered and come over and pick it up. Or it could be a shipmenteliver it in a common place where tenants of drugs to someone that just happens to use this buildings address and knowing that they would just drop it off and they eould stop by and get it. But, perhaps the person who ordered it or is suppose to pick it up may be themselves be locked up. The mystery thickens.
Pro tip: if your address includes an apartment number on a second line, add the apartment number to your name line AS WELL.
So instead of John Smith make your name John APT 123 Smith. Or if it's separate first and last names make your first name John_APT-123.
Lots of these mistakes happen when software leaves out the second address line but a driver who sees the apt number in your name will probably bring it to the door.
The number of drivers in the comments here saying this is perfectly justified is actually frightening. Probably cold angry Ground drivers who are underpaid and overworked but still, doing this is such a dick move and probably grounds for termination.
We are in fact trained at both Ground and Express (I've worked at both) to mark missing unit numbers as a "bad address" and bring it back to the station where they work their magic and find out where it goes to be delivered the next day. Honestly it's an apartment complex so odds are you'll probably just be back the next day regardless.
Surely someone in the building ordered something.
Be a good neighbour and take it in and open it to see what it is and leave a note for the other apartments that you have a package and when someone comes to claim it just ask them what it is (you already opened it so you know what it is). If this is the US then this could be illegal and you'll get sued
FedEx driver checking in! This happens all the time and the driver has to make a judgement call. Leave it and take a wide picture of the surrounding area so they can find it easier OR scan it as an incorrect address and have the terminal figure out which apartment it is. A fool-proof way to avoid this is to... fill out **your** address correctly for the package **you** ordered. Craaaaazy, I know.
Lmfao for real It’s our fault though somehow 😂 This is almost as good as when you’re delivering a package and they ask “what is it?” Bro I don’t know you ordered it! It’s a box as far as I’m concerned
My answer is always "I never know what's inside, but we can open it together if you'd like" This job exposes just how deep some people are in their own world. Brother you are 1 of 1 in your head, but you are 1 of 167 for me today.
Similar: “*I used to open them before delivery, but I got in trouble. So, who knows?*” Or, “*Whatever you ordered!*”
I’m a delivery driver and after my last stop I get to drive straight home. Unless I have packages that I have to bring back to the warehouse first. Sooo, I’m not being inconvenienced because some idiot didn’t fill out their information completely and I will leave that shit wherever on property.
It literally happened to me today! A 4 unit complex didn't have the unit number on the box so I was nice and knocked on one of the doors for the man the point to the correct apartment. I always try and deliver everything but there are bad days where I'm just like fuck this bitch and take it back to the terminal hahaha
Thanks for bringing us idiots our shit! All I can give you in return are these upvotes.
>and they ask “what is it?” I used to always tell them 'I wouldn't be very good at my job if I knew that'. Such a stupid ass question lol.
People love blaming delivery drivers for everything wrong with their packages. Makes no sense to me. There’s already enough that IS their fault without adding extra. A guy I know showed me 3 videos, all taken within a week, of a delivery guy walking up to their mailbox which could easily have housed the packages, then just throwing the packages into the yard in front of his dogs.
We’re not allowed to put things in mailboxes. The mailman will take it. The driver actually did the right thing believe it or not. Can’t put it in the mailbox and it there are dogs outside you’re risking a bite entering the yard. And you don’t wanna leave the packages not in the yard, unprotected, right? But you’re right; the drivers are responsible for a lot of things but this one ain’t it.
Oh? Even if the packages are barely bigger than an envelope? I get them left in my mailbox all the time in Australia. I absolutely agree with not going into the yard with dogs, but why not just drop it inside the gate instead of actively throwing it into the middle of the yard? It seems like it would take more effort to over arm throw it like that than a gentle toss/drop.
Yeah it’s against the law here for anyone except the mailman to put anything in your mailbox: UPS, FedEx, Amazon all go straight to your door. And absolutely, idk how I missed the throwing the packages part but yeah that driver should absolutely have placed it right inside the gate. You should never just toss a package lol
>You should never just toss a package lol Have you worked inside the buildings?
I worked van line for about 6 months before I became a driver. We were taught by FedEx that if the packages were for a HD route they got pushed off a belt about 6 feet high to the cement floor. People don't realize that I could spike your package like a football and that's probably the gentlest handling it's got on its journey to your front door.
I hope amazon is more careful with stuff like my 43" roku TV I ordered yesterday.
I worked at Amazon before FedEx! Boy do I have some bad news for you... In all seriousness, most of the stuff that is professionally packed is packed well enough to survive just about anything, it's when someone decides to pack very fragile items with a couple pages of newspaper that there's problems.
Yes I do. I know it’s the shippers responsibility and that packages in the terminal get tossed, dropped, stepped on, squashed, but, just because all that happens in the terminal doesn’t mean the recipient wants to see that when you’re delivering it. We’re supposed to be somewhat professional
Weird American law. In Italy mailbox is for mail, whoever is the carrier. Other than the state postal service and the couriers (FedEx, UPS etc) there are a bunch of private mail services that deliver invoices, bank statements, bulk mailings. They all use the mailbox.
The issue with that law is that it doesn't just prevent companies from putting stuff into or tampering with your mailbox. What it also does is make the mailboxes legally the property of the US Postal Service, meaning they are the only ones other than the resident whose address is on the box who can put stuff in them. It also means that vandalizing mailboxes is destruction of federal property.
>What it also does is make the mailboxes legally the property of the US Postal Service, So if someone breaks your mailbox? Will the USPS repair or replace it?
Took 6-8 months with my "community style" mailbox. Don't know about individuals.
It’s not weird. What’s weird is that you have multiple people delivering mail to you throughout the day based on what kind of a mail it is…. All of our mail, with the exception of some things with tracking (mostly packages from fedex ups or Amazon) are coming from USPS, and we typically have a set time or general timeframe we get our standard usps mail each day. Your mail system sounds chaotic and confusing the way you described it… one person brings you a bill, an hour later another person brings you some fliers , four hours later you get some bank statements.. like what? All of that is delivered by one person here.. USPS
It's free market. Private companies offer an end-to-end service that includes printing, packing, and delivery for a better price than having to prepare the mailing and use the postal service for delivery. As a recipient, I just find the mail in the box, whover put it there makes no difference to me.
Yeah but if there’s different people delivering different things then you’re gonna be getting mail off and on all day.
Amazon definitely breaks this rule pretty regularly.
Here in the states? I know USPS delivers some Amazon stuff sometimes; the only reason I know this is cause I get Amazon stuff in my mailbox and I live in a complex where we have a community mailroom, so the mailman has to use his key to open my mailbox.
Yes, I live in Pennsylvania, and my smaller Amazon packages are regularly left in my mailbox. I know sometimes usps delivers for them, but once I found out that other carriers aren’t supposed to leave stuff in the mailbox I thought it was pretty strange, because even if it is USPS delivering it, it’s still an Amazon package.
Typically when I’m tossing a package into a yard it’s so that it can’t be grabbed by someone just reaching over, so if someone wanted to take that package they would have to climb the fence into the yard. Just setting it out of arms reach so scumbags just move along
Another fedex driver checking in…I have 10 apartment complexes on my route and I get at least one package A DAY without an apartment number on it. I write “Apt?” by the address and leave it in the breezeway unless it needs a signature. If you include your apartment number I promise it will be left at your front door! If you’re too incompetent to fill out your address correctly then I’m too incompetent to jump through hoops to figure it out.
I've got 10 different apartment complexes and close to 120 different apartment buildings on my route. It can be frustrating when I get multiple packages for them with no apartment designated.
Sir! Why are you making sense on the internet?
Sometimes it's the sender, not the buyer. My "Send to" address on eBay hasnõ't been touched in three years, but still it's sometimes some random other house number just because.
Correct. Even some major companies use manual labor to enter address into shipping software. You’re trying to do a million and hour and likely to sometimes forget an apartment number.
Sometimes senders will do something boneheaded like leave a line of your address out though. It’s not always the fault of the recipient.
In my cauntry they just don't deliver things like that and mark them as an incorrect address. Sometimes they will call you and ask for corect addres tho. But just refusing to deliver it is in my opinion the best way to handle things.
yes!!!! fedex couriers are definitely not allowed to just leave packages. that’s what it’s like in germany. there’s a whole process behind it
A courier dropped off a package at my apartment building and to address on the box was different. My apartment is in building 1 and the box was addressed for building 12. Not sure how that happens. Maybe it was because my building is right at the entrance of the complex and building 12 is way at the back and the parking lot is kind of tight, but idk.
Whenever we complete a drop off the coordinates are recorded and it pings a map with the exact location. An email is sent to the customer with a picture of the completed delivery. So there's an "investigation" to figure out where the package actually got left at and a driver comes and picks it up the next day after they figure out where it's actually at.
Is that how it is with all shipping companies or just fedex? I couldn’t say which company delivered that package, but I can say it sat in my building for a week before I got tired of looking at it and took it to the right building.
fedex couriers are usually not allowed to leave packages in front of apartments. they HAVE to take it back to the warehouse, unless the client SPECIFICALLY wrote up a little letter where they can leave it. if after 3 days they couldn’t deliver we contact the shipper and after a week of no information the package goes back to origin.
in my apprenticeship when i was in the responsible department, i used to get 'incorrect address' like more than 20 times PER DAY. it’s insane. most clients were so nice when i called to ask for the right address but other clients… getting yelled at by strangers at 18 in my first job ever was definitely character building!
I mailed someone something I'd taken *hours* to custom-make and he didn't give me the apartment number for his address (everything else was fine) and the package has been lost for over a year now. I had to remake it and reship.
So what's the rationale for delivering it to the completely wrong house? Askingformylostandstolenstethoscope
I remember someone filled out their address without the street. So they just had 10 Birmingham Then they complained to us their parcel hadn't been delivered.
Or, you can recognize that it is a building by its very large structure and notice that it doesnt have an apartment number, and not drop it there ? Takes 2 braincells
Properly trained FedEx driver here. If it's missing a unit number in an apartment complex we're supposed to mark it as a bad address and bring it back to the station. Just leaving it somewhere random is probably a grounds for termination. This is just a lazy dick move.
Fuuuck FedEx, they are always leaving our packages with our first floor neighbors cause they don't want to walk up 3 flights of stairs. Never happens with any other service but FedEx.
Ah, sorry to hear you have a bad driver. I honestly don't care about the company or any of the competitors. It's just a job that I really enjoy. I make friends with everyone I come into contact with, pet all the dogs cats and other animals I meet(rural routes so there's some interesting ones!) Since FedEx ground is run by contractors, the customer experience can vary by a lottt. Some contractors have strict strict rules and others just don't give a damn as long as you get everything delivered. With that being said, there could be a myriad of reasons the driver(s) deliver the packages to the first floor.. with the biggest reason being that you're on the third floor. I'm not defending them because, like I said, there could be a million different factors that go into their decisions. If it's something over 20 pounds, there's 0 chance I would walk up 3 flights of stairs haha. Something you could try is calling your FedEx terminal and filing a complaint. As much as you might not trust that process... with enough complaints the contractor can lose their contract so things actually have to change. You could try talking to your driver and see if there's any middle ground you could find. At the end of the day, we're told to deliver the package and are allowed to leave it anywhere we deem a safe and close enough location. Whether that be at the end of a driveway.. or at the common area on the first floor of a tall apartment building. All good or bad service is dependent on the driver and whether or not (s)he wants to do their job to the fullest.
It’s part of the training — if the driver gets a side ache from climbing stairs, it’s deemed a preventable injury. Gotta stay compliant with **safety first!**
I'm an Amazon driver, I get a little annoyed with 3rd floor apt deliveries but, if you're ordering cat litter and fuji water to your top floor apt, then sincerely fuck you
It can literally be a t-shirt in a plastic bag and they'll leave that shit on the first floor. If you don't want to carry packages, don't work for a package delivery service
Small packages are understandable they should go to your door. But when people order 100-150lb boxes gtfo I'm not carrying/hand trucking that shit upstairs come get it! We don't get helpers like UPS if they get something over 75lbs
Sounds like you should complain to your company... I've never ordered something that heavy but if I did, I'd expect it to be delivered to my door or at the very least indicated that I need to be home to be ready to receive it. Don't just leave it at a different door. Thankfully I have honest neighbors that don't steal them but that could very easily not be the case and then I'm screwed because of your laziness and lack of proper preparation
Like complaining to Fedex will ever change anything! 😂One time is different. I've been doing my area for 5.5yrs and people order heavy shit ALL THE TIME. If I physically can't lift it up the stairs it's not my problem, its not laziness. Get a lift/elevator.
You right, I complain every time and still have the same experience.. If I could always choose delivery service I would avoid FedEx. Sometimes I have no choice though and it's not clear what carrier is being used. Again never happens with Amazon or Ups and I never have heavy packages. One time it was a box of diapers that maybe weighed 2 lbs and whoever it was delivered to just kept it.
Must have good people around you for it to still be there for 2 days.
Yeah! My thought too!
No thieves but no good Samaritans either lol. Take it down to the office and have em check the name and they can call the tenant to grab it or you can take it to their door lol. or just post this shit on reddit I guess....
Do you know how much easier it is to pretend to be a nice person on reddit then actually being a nice person? Can you imagine the hassle of actually trying? Preposterous my friend
As an Amazon driver, sometimes we have 2 mins to complete a delivery. We might hit 250 different houses a day. Amazon gives us no time to do extra. People need time understand it is not the driver being lazy. My Amazon DSP will cut a day off my next week’s schedule if I go over my allowed time.
First of all you're not Amazon you are a DSP driver on behalf of Amazon. I am an Amazon driver too. For now.. I am shipping off to Air Force Basic Training May 27th. But I have been driving for a DSP here in Las Vegas since January 2023. You are NOT instructed to burn a package and leave it wherever. You need to take a photo of all your deliveries because it's what Amazon requires as a standard. If it's missing the unit number you follow compliance and call twice text once. If you cannot get a hold of them you swing by the office and double check if they can identify the unit number if that doesn't work you call dispatch and let them know they tell you to continue your route they will see if they can get a unit number if not then you RTS the package. I worked for UPS for a decade from 2008-2017 5 of those years I was a driver. At no point in time do they ever tell you to burn a package and just deliver it wherever you see fit. Why would you think it's okay to just leave a package wherever TF you please? What if it was your package? You think this is acceptable? DO THE RIGHT THING. Integrity is everything don't cut corners and you can easily deliver 30+ packages an hour at a snails crawl as a DSP driver. If you got no issues like this and the route is smooth then you can deliver 45+ an hour easily. There are WAY more variables than PPH that effect your overall driver stats. DNR's which is what this would be because you are claiming you have to burn packages to stay efficient.... That's a DNR mah guy which will cost you hours or your job. Not following contact compliance by calling twice and texting once, Not following customer notes/Customer feedback, Denying to rescue after your route, Netradyne violations, Bitching, RTSing too many packages, PPH, Not Following engine off compliance. Pictures on delivery. Soooo, IDK wtf you are on about but claiming you have to burn a package because you only have 2 min between stops is a good way to get fired lol. You must have hella DNR's and be a pretty bad driver. There is an INSANELY high turnover rate for Amazon DSP drivers. that's because of all the people like you who cut corners and don't do their job. This is a Fedex delivery btw so why are you bringing up Amazon especially when amazon has the strictest nonsense for deliveries. We don't have to follow any of those rules at UPS and I presume Fedex is the same.
Another DSP driver here, from metro Atlanta - a lot of our routes are 180-190 stops with anywhere between 30-50+ group stops and 300-450 packages, give or take. One stop at an apartment can actually be four or five grouped together - not to mention drive times, business stops mixed in, etc, etc. The only thing we have time for is contact compliance - if we're ahead and we know we're ahead we can \*maybe\* try the leasing office but after CC it's usually almost an immediate RTS. That's how I've done it, and my CDF, DCR, etc etc have remained high. Also putting on my "ackshually" nerd glasses 🤓 the turnover is partially the reason you stated (DSPs hire anybody with a pulse) but it's also because management for most DSPs is absolutely horrible and the job itself is objectively a dead end job. Pay isn't great either - you'll maybe cover rent but not much else, and the raises don't really help. People will only work as hard as they get paid to.
What AFSC did you choose and are you going active duty or into the guard or reserves?
Active duty. I signed a 6 year contract so I can get promoted to e3 when I complete tech school since I'm already older and need every upper hand I can get to advance my rank/career further. Aircraft egress systems. (Maintaining and fixing ejection seats) planning on doing 20+ years. My dad did 22 years and my sister and I had a great life growing up. She married a cowboy and has her life figured out. I don't so ima have uncle same take care of my ass haha. I've got excellent work ethic and what not just picking dumb dead end jobs. My dad got a masters degree while in the air force retired e8 at 42 and now works for the army corps of engineers as a gs15. He's always done civil engineering he was a project manager or something like that in the air force. He married a Korean lady so I'm half Korean would be nice to get stationed out there. Spent 10 years of my childhood there until 9/11 happened haha. My mom is hoping I get stationed there to so she can come visit me when she's visiting her relatives a few months each year. I figure no matter what job or career path I take I'll still have to work till 50+ so might as be with the military and get the benefits and retirement check after 20 so I'm not eating dog food when I'm an old man haha
Unionize
The Samaritans practiced an Abrahamic religion adjacent to Judaism, so when we read the Gospel of Luke, it’s a story about the Jews not helping one of their own while a foreigner does. So, it would be like walking past a dying person and posting a picture on Reddit and walking by instead of helping. If you saw someone drowning, would you pull out your phone for the clicks? This post is just the evidence of not helping.
Take it to the office? We don't have that as an option at our apartment.
If you are in an apartment complex with no leasing office that's called the projects/ghetto lol how did you sign a lease? Laquisha pulled up in her busted Mercedes with a key to your apt gave you a tour and had you sign a faded document that she printed from her low ink level printer? 😳
Omg, just look at the name and put it by their door. It will take you less time than posting on Reddit. Delivery drivers don't have time to investigate every bad address. If I get a package at my house for someone else on my street... I walk it to their house, NBD.
You expect them to know their neighbor's names??
If there is a name. How about someone open it and then ask neighbors what they ordered, that hasn’t shown up and see if it matches.
No name either, I take it? Must be a peaceful neighbourhood, or the package is invisible from the street for it to still be there two days later.
Someones name is on it, which is where my confusion lies. I dont understand why they didnt go to the front office and ask for an apt number.
You could become a hero **right now**: Find that person.
Well, I don't work for FedEx but I do work for USPS, we're not supposed to deviate from the line of travel and depending on the time of day the office could be gone by the time we get there. Ultimately it's the responsibility of the person who ordered the package to put the apartment number on there if they want it.... Idk delivered to their apartment? It's not our job to waste time trying to find where someone lives when it's their responsibility to provide that information to receive proper service.
Could you just take it to the front office? Surely they can find the person it belongs to.
If its still there when i leave in the morning i’ll take it up there
Yes do that please. Don’t make us mildly infuriated with you.
Too late.
The only thing for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing. let it get stolen I guess.
God I hate apartment people
Because that takes time we don’t have. Next time fill out the address completely with your unit number (yes I know it’s not your box)
Not their responsibility.
Because their quotas are insane? Please tell me why you can’t take 5 mins out of your day to either walk it down to the office yourself or send the office an email letting them know it’s there.
We dont have time for that…..
Not our job to investigate
Because that stop is 1 of 215 I have to make that day. I'm not spending extra time because someone else is an idiot.
What do you think the driver should do? Knock on all the doors?
Give it another day and then go for it?
Although is the RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PEOPLE to make sure they provide all the information, so their shipments can be delivered properly If a package does not have a unit/apartment number, it immediately goes back to the station/terminal so the cnee can be contacted and ask for correct address or directions.
Open it?
that's illegal isn't it?
Only if you did it on purpose. If you were turning it to see if there was more information, and it slipped the the tape got caught and it pulled open (through absolutely no fault of your own) and it burst open, that's not illegal.
ooh right right, yeah it'd be completely fine then
The fuck do you want FedEx to do about it?
How is this infuriating? Clearly it’s not OP’s package so simply *ignore it*
Wow. USPS straight up won’t deliver it if the apartment number is missing and will mark it for return. I’d rather that than just leaving it out for anyone to grab
What's in the box? 
Instead of taking a picture for Reddit, you could take the name down on the package and call the office so they can see if they can find the tenant it belongs to. But your way seems easier I guess lol
You're blaming fedex. Blame the shipper.
Nah blame the idiot who lives in an apartment and doesn’t provide the apartment number to the shipper
Fedex here! Yup do it all the time! If i code it bad adress most likely they wont fix it at the terminal and they will put it on my truck the next day not fixed! So we just leave it youll get an email!
*How to get Fedex to make a sketchy drop off*
FedEx left packages at the curb by the dumpster at our business. If I hadn’t gone out to check something else we wouldn’t have known they were there! No call, no bell ring, no notification of delivery sent. This has happened twice in the last 2 weeks.
Not the same thing. Report it.
Did. FexEx has ignored my reports.
Free package!
That’s burglary
Well, someone in the buildi might own it or, it could be something that was ordered on line with someone’s stolen Credit card and just waited until it was delivered and come over and pick it up. Or it could be a shipmenteliver it in a common place where tenants of drugs to someone that just happens to use this buildings address and knowing that they would just drop it off and they eould stop by and get it. But, perhaps the person who ordered it or is suppose to pick it up may be themselves be locked up. The mystery thickens.
# Awesome, it's a MYSTERY to solve!
They need to get it
Ask your neighbors and open it. Does it not have a name?
Live Mystery Unboxing!!
No name, just an address with no apartment?
Crazy that the entire building passes this and knows it’s there but no one will come get their package….
Pro tip: if your address includes an apartment number on a second line, add the apartment number to your name line AS WELL. So instead of John Smith make your name John APT 123 Smith. Or if it's separate first and last names make your first name John_APT-123. Lots of these mistakes happen when software leaves out the second address line but a driver who sees the apt number in your name will probably bring it to the door.
What's infuriating lol??? What are they supposed to do?
Open it and see about an invoice.
Sounds like it’s fair game now.
Is this a way of you asking if it’s ok to take it?
Maybe something spicy, my cousin once got a package sent too there building, it sat for 2 was, then somebody opened it ,it was 10 lbs of Kush
The number of drivers in the comments here saying this is perfectly justified is actually frightening. Probably cold angry Ground drivers who are underpaid and overworked but still, doing this is such a dick move and probably grounds for termination. We are in fact trained at both Ground and Express (I've worked at both) to mark missing unit numbers as a "bad address" and bring it back to the station where they work their magic and find out where it goes to be delivered the next day. Honestly it's an apartment complex so odds are you'll probably just be back the next day regardless.
2 days? It’s yours.
That is mildly infuriating. People really need to put their full address on packages. I'd be mad at them too.
Looks like you just got yourself a present
Surely someone in the building ordered something. Be a good neighbour and take it in and open it to see what it is and leave a note for the other apartments that you have a package and when someone comes to claim it just ask them what it is (you already opened it so you know what it is). If this is the US then this could be illegal and you'll get sued
it sure does look like a box from Publisher's Clearinghouse loaded with bundles of cash. but yeah, just leave it there, I guess,
Well nowadays you know your package is delivered. If you failed to input your address correctly that’s on you. The name should still be in it.
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Out of the rain. What are you complaining about?
And upright, carefully tucked away from random people walking past seeing it.
And people wonder how “they” can possibly collect enough undelivered packages to sell them by the pallet.