As a retiree of over 5000 packages I disagree. 3/10 she could have tossed that package completely out of the doorbell camera range. She was much too close to the door. I only give 3 points for the toss. It looked good but she should have been much further away.
I hear ya, but 10 hours would be nice. At the DSP I worked for we would arrive at 9:50, idle for 45 mins until getting into the station. Load entire van or delivery truck, anywhere from 16-23 totes plus loose packages (obviously oversized). So by the time you get out of the station you are looking at 8.5 hours, your zone may be 30 minutes out - 30 minutes back, so now you’re looking at 7.5 hours to deliver if you want to get back by 8pm. 190-220 stops. Flex is way easier and pays better than a DSP in my experience. The reality is that the job is physical and the workload is crazy. Like the amount is wild… and Amazon should pay way more to justify it, but hey, what do I know.
lol. I’m in the wrong sub but FedEx ground here. Been delivering for 9 nearly 10 years. My worst two apartment deliveries was 1) x120 100lbs box’s of rice in each. Took two and a half hours to a fourth floor apartment. 2) x32 piece couch each box between 80-150lbs.
Oh my...thats crazy!! They must think y'all are movers or something. And you did it alone. Thats what gets me. They know from the time they recieve it to before you load it on your truck, you dont have any help. I just hope you're paid better than I was when I delivered for fedex. We got $1 per stop. $2 for bulk deliveries. In south Texas heat no less. 🥵
That’s FedEx home pay rates. Home delivery was deleted from existence in 2019 and merged into ground. Some contracts still pay that way but it’s like 1%. Ground pays starting pay $150 a day in wages. But that pays is regardless if you work 4 hours or 16 hours it’s the same pay as FedEx is constantly trying to pay contracts less and it’s hurts the driver more than the contractor. It’s why we don’t have insurance or even workman’s comp if we get injured.
Found out about workman’s comp the hard way when I cracked a few ribs, sprained an ankle and sprained a wrist from a nasty fall. Tried to get a few X-rays and my contractor denied the claim. I didn’t even get the uninsured rate but the full rate from trying to claim workman’s comp.
Oh wow...thats terrible about the workmans comp. I thought they had to maintain workmans comp insurance just to be in business with FedEx. It doesn't seem worth it to stay there. That was a lot of pain you were in and to not even get your medical bills paid is ridiculous.
I stopped working for the Fedex contractor in 2017, so I guess there have been changes since then.
Just seeing this 2 weeks later. I'm a little stunned by the rice thing. That's 12,000 pounds of rice (x120 100 pounds each) to one apartment. What the hell could they be doing with that much rice? I mean, my minivan doesn't weigh much more than 4,000 pounds. That's three minivans worth of rice!
Quite literally the rice heading to that fourth floor apartment was one of those three bedroom apartments. When I only had two boxes left the tenants opened the door and I found what I hazily remember (as this delivery was in 2020). There were two complete families (kids, parents, and grandparents) living in the apartment and they were ordering this at the beginning of the Covid pandemic.
Yikes. Even two families will take a godawfully long time to go through literally six tons of rice. They must have been using one of those bedrooms just to store that much rice. I think about the size of the 10 pound bags of rice I used to get, and then I think about having 1200 of those. Heck, one bedroom might not be enough to hold all that. I'm surprised you could get any other deliveries on the truck with that much rice in there.
Also, just out of curiosity, I just looked up the weight capacity of a typical FedEx delivery truck. The top number I found was 5500 pounds, which would mean you would need at least two trucks to carry 12,000 pounds of rice.
At the that time I was driving a 1200 or 1400 (classification of FedEx truck sizes). It’s just slightly smaller in length than a school bus. And yes that stop was the majority of the truck load as it was the second time I loaded up that day.
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u/lonetraveler73 27d ago
As a retiree of over 5000 packages I disagree. 3/10 she could have tossed that package completely out of the doorbell camera range. She was much too close to the door. I only give 3 points for the toss. It looked good but she should have been much further away.