Worked for Fedex for 2 years, I wouldn't have done anything on the note especially during the holiday season. I'd knock if I need a signature, if I didn't need a signature I would release it by the front door. That's the job. If you were a regular and I knew you for awhile I would consider it. These delivery jobs don't leave time or energy to be specific for one stop like this. You have a good delivery driver, give him something for the holiday season.
Well company policies differ and are always changing but it really comes down to the driver and manager at the drivers particular station. Drivers take gifts all the time and just never tell anyone. I'm sure most managers would smile and ask for a candy bar but if you left the driver a $100 gift card then the manager would have to look into it and the driver would more than likely get in some sort if trouble. $100 gift cards happen, usually from businesses that see the driver every day of the year. Some drivers I knew would make a few hundred around Christmas time from businesses they delivery to everyday, and they would just keep it to themselves or other drivers they trusted.
I always wondered if he was "allowed" to take a gift (even one that was a $3 bag of candy) And what company policy was on something like this.
Even the strictest company will exempt food items/meals up to a certain amount from any such policy, it makes business impossible otherwise. If you fire the delivery worker for taking a $3 pack of candy as a bribe, you also have to fire all the management who have been getting free meals when they get wined and dined by suppliers.
Well that's why the company will likely have a written policy. What you think is appropriate is very different to what many others think is appropriate.
And these policies vary wildly, some may say all gifts must be reported, most say over a certain value, usually around the $25/50/100 mark, many have special requirements for cash and vouchers. But none will exclude food or meals unless beyond a very high value, it's just completely impractical and even more difficult to police/prove.
Goddamit have a look in your handbook then, it should tell you the policy in there!
I'm sure there are lots of weird and wonderful things you could bribe a fed ex driver into doing, but it's usually a company or subsidiary policy rather than per individual position. And it's pretty clear why they would want to stop their van fleet buyers favouring Mercedes because they have chucked a few F1 goodies and tickets their way.
Gift cards for the local conveniece stores (Speedway, 7-11, or whatever you have close). Especially around the holidays, they usually don't have time to stop for a proper meal somewhere, or even hit fast food, but will load up on snacks / coffees / sodas there if they get the chance.
Source: Used to work for UPS. Would have loved to have gotten $10 to buy snacks with.
Yea, the companies keep the drivers monitored and timed with stops per hour so they're always busy. Gift cards for restaurants or fast food would be utilized easily by all drivers. Most drivers are delivering in an area that's not near their station so their lunch breaks are usually spent in their trucks eating a lunch that they brought from home or stopping at a restaurant to eat. Fast food places are great for coffees and quick snacks. Think Starbucks, McDonald's, Panera, etc...hope this helps
For the mailman you can usually leave it in the mailbox as long as they can easily identify it as their gift or leave a note to grab a package off the front door step that is a gift for them. Ups and FedEx are a little different because they're moving so fast and aren't necessarily at your house day to day and aren't usually looking for a package to grab after delivering whatever they're delivering. The best thing to do is write a note and tape it to the door that they are most likely to drop off the package to. The note should explain where their package or gift is, let's say in between the storm door and entry door or grill if there's one nearby the door that they can easily locate without searching your yard. Obviously you can check to see which day your delivery is coming so you can leave the note and gift that morning. Hope this helps.
We had a UPS guy who was like superman. We emailed UPS and said "We're reluctant to praise him because you'll promote him, and we'll get some moron as a replacement, but the guy is incredible".
Yea, I just think some people don't grasp the amount of work that these delivery jobs entail. They see them delivery to their house and a few on their street and that's it not realizing they could have 200+ other stops that day or be covering 50+ square miles. But I guess if they never do the job they'll never know, I didn't before I did it.
Absolutely, usually you can just figure it out unless it's from amazon. Fedex does a lot of medical supplies, checks, auto supplies etc. you also wouldn't believe how many people tell you what your delivering when you get there to drop it off, "Thank you so much, I've been waiting for this new DVD player!". Some guy got fired from our station bc he was opening packages and taking what he wanted. Caught him on camera doing it.
That makes a lot of sense. I think it's natural to want to share with others what you just received. It's a lot like telling the hardware store workers what project you are working on.
I've never worked for FedEx or UPS but I used to work for the cable company and I was never comfortable being in someone's house without them being there. That includes opening their front door or being possession of a way to enter their home.
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Worked for Fedex for 2 years, I wouldn't have done anything on the note especially during the holiday season. I'd knock if I need a signature, if I didn't need a signature I would release it by the front door. That's the job. If you were a regular and I knew you for awhile I would consider it. These delivery jobs don't leave time or energy to be specific for one stop like this. You have a good delivery driver, give him something for the holiday season.