UPS/Fed-Ex

[Lady's Human]

Your carrier is doing a little extra, which craft members usually do.

If, however, they decided to audit her route and found her doing that, she would be disciplined for wasting time on her route.

[catnapper]

Awful! We are waiting for another box from the insurance company to replace my computer. They sent one out last week. The UPS person left it on the front porch..... in the POURING rain. By the time we got to it, it was a brown puddle.

[KYS]

I like both Fed-ex and UPS,
If I need a signature I like Fed-ex a bit more depending on who is delivering.
The few times I had a Fed-ex delivery I had needed a signature.
The last two times if I was not home, Fed-EX has left a note on my door.
The delivery person than came back and tried my house again later that same day and I was able to sign.
UPS, if I am not home and a signature is needed they will not try my house again that same day.

The 2 complaints I do have about UPS are...
1: You can not call your local UPS office directly.
2: The last 3 times I was home, the UPS man did not ring my door bell but
through the package on my front porch and left. I heard a loud bang and that is how I new the UPS man was here. A couple of times my contents arrived damaged. (no surprise the way the boxes looked.)

[K9karen]

Gee, no problem here. If I order stuff online, I add "Leave on porch if nobody home", and they do, right in front of the door.
If they see a car, they knock and leave the item unless I have to sign. We're UPS/FedEx city on my block for some reason.

[Freedom]

No issue with them bouncing stuff to test it. But they just put it by the door, no knock, doorbell or notice at the mailbox -- which they have to pass. Some use the front door, most use the side door.

I've found stuff after a day or 2 of it sitting at the front door. At the side door, we use that twice per day but if they deliver after Dad comes home at 4:30 or so, it sits until next morning.

[Puckstop31]

Our regular UPS driver is great.


Our regular FedEx driver is a miserable hooman.


Enjoy one, deal with the other.

[Grace]

No problems with either one. We're on first name basis with both of them

[krazyaboutkatz]

I live in a condo complex in a security building. Both Fed-Ex and UPS used to call me from downstairs to see if I was home and if not they'd leave a message if I wasn't home. They don't do this any more. They'll leave notices on my mailbox. Some times they left the package outside on top of the mail boxes where any one walking down the street could've stolen it. They've also managed to get into my building and left a package in front of my door which is more secure but it could've been stolen without my knowledge.

Lately I've had my packages delivered to me at work which works out much better for me any way. My roommate received a notice from Fed-Ex and called them and they told her that they'd call her on her cell phone the next day and let her know when they'd be delivering the package again. She later found another notice on the mailbox. She was home the whole time and no one tried to knock or call. She ended up picking up the package herself.

[Cataholic]

I don't have problems with them, but I do notice that they leave packages on the porch- outside- rather than inside the porch. I don't get that. If this is some 'rule', then I wonder why they choose to follow this one but ignore some other rule (like leaving the notice card with the package for me to sign and return the next day.....).

[Donnaj4962]

I don't have problems with either. I miss my UPS delivery guy at the job I used to have; he was so nice and friendly!

Now for a joke:

If the UPS truck and FedEX truck collided, would they be called FEDUP???!!!??? An oldy but always a goody!

[Seravieve]

If the package is too big to fit in the mailbox the carrier is required to leave a note for pickup at the PO.

I'd have to disagree with that statement, and your follow up reply as well. I work for an online business, and we ship 35-75 dvds a day via USPS. We also receive packages from USPS, as well as UPS and FedEx. USPS carrier leaves all packages on the porch at work. We schedule daily pick ups and she leaves us extra totes, and puts any packages inside of them. It's been this way for 4 years. The only time we get an orange notice is if the package is Signature Required or Insured. The same goes for my mail carrier at home. They always leave packages on the ledge next to our mailbox when we're not home.

Our UPS drivers, home and work, are both awesome. UPS at work has been the same guy, Ron, for 4 years. He comes almost every day. He always brings it to the door, and if its a lot and we're not home, he'll leave it in the garage (knows the code). He's always willing to take UPS packages too.. even when I've packed up three 40 lb boxes. He takes them no problem. UPS driver at my house is great as well. He'll put all the packages between our door and screen door if possible, or he'll cover them with the rug. And when its raining, he ALWAYS puts them in a huge plastic bag.

We don't deal too much with FedEx but in the past, they used to just toss stuff over the railing and leave it laying wherever it landed. Never rang the doorbell either. Recently, they've been much better... always on the doorstep with a ring.

[Lady's Human]

I hate to disagree with you, however, the disciplinary issues within the USPS are monumental. This is an organization which on one day issues a letter of warning to a carrier for walking across a lawn where there is a dog, and a day later in the same office issues a letter of warning to a carrier out of the same office for NOT walking across a lawn and wasting time.

The carrier at your place of business operates under a different set off rules than a residential delivery. Carriers picking up at a business certainly have to pickup and make deliveries IN the place of business.

A carrier making a residential delivery is not allowed to pull into a driveway, make a left turn into a street unless authorized by a supervisor, leave their vehicle to make a delivery unless authorized by a supervisor, talk to a customer while making a delivery, and many other little rules which carriers routinely break. It's fine, nothing is said, until the carrier upsets management, than all the little rules they break (and have to break) while doing their duties come to the top.

If the carrier is on a walk route the rules are slightly different, but not substantially so.

[Seravieve]

I do not work at a business address, it's residential. She pulls in the driveway, leaves her car and leaves packages on the porch. Must have different rules, depending on the location.

Technically, theyre not supposed to accept a label with a past due date, but they take ours ALL the time. Guess they like the $$$$ we bring in.

[Lady's Human]

If the carrier ever upsets management, all those little violations will be used against them without hesitation.

I have a craft member at the moment with a possible letter of warning for parking incorrectly.........they pulled into a parking space in the employee parking lot instead of backing in. Officially they tell employees to back into the parking space instead of pulling in, as backing out of a parking space is an unsafe act.

[Grace]

A carrier making a residential delivery is not allowed to pull into a driveway, make a left turn into a street unless authorized by a supervisor, leave their vehicle to make a delivery unless authorized by a supervisor, talk to a customer while making a delivery, and many other little rules which carriers routinely break. It's fine, nothing is said, until the carrier upsets management, than all the little rules they break (and have to break) while doing their duties come to the top.

Exactly how does a supervisor know if a carrier pulls into a driveway or any of the other no-nos you have listed? I've never seen anyone following our carrier, and s/he has pulled into our driveway, and others on the street, innumerable times over the past 20 years.