Wondering what happened to your package?

caroln

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Kentucky
Maybe this happened.

From ABC News:

JEMISON, Ala. -- "Nearly two dozen FedEx packages have been found dumped in woods along a rural road in an Alabama town about 75 miles from a ravine where hundreds of undelivered FedEx parcels previously were discovered, police said Wednesday.

Police in the town of Jemison said in a statement on social media that about 20 packages destined for locations on nine different roads were discovered.

It wasn't clear how long the items had been on the roadside or whether there was any link to an earlier discovery in Blount County near Hayden, where Sheriff Mark Moon said a FedEx Ground driver dumped packages into a ravine in the woods at least six times.

Moon said Tuesday that there are about 450 victims after hundreds of packages were discovered dumped last month."

The driver is no longer with FedEx, of course. If someone hates their job that much, why don't they just quit?
 

The delivery people here are supposed to knock and wait for a reply before leaving the scene of the drop...

Sometimes if no-one is home they'll leave the parcel in a safe place( which may have already been agreed by the homeowner)... but that's all that it should be...otherwise they have to return with it another day

In yesterdays' news a video captured a delivery driver, throwing a box over a 6 foot fence into someone's rear garden when the elderly woman didn't answer the front door fast enough, and hit her square in the face with it, and gave her a black eye ... ...

fortunately the camera got a good clear view of him doing it, so he apparently has now lost his job
 
no longer do they even knock here throw items regardless if breakable etc
was here on Saturday they tossed a digital GLASS scale onto the porch from 10 feet away
we were here they did not bother even walking up to door ..... luckily the item was packaged to withstand it
reminds me of an old luggage commercial with a gorilla banging the suitcase
 
It’s not just FedEx packages that are misspent or badly-handled, either. I’m tracking an overdue USPS package of mine that has apparently been given a long, circuitous grand tour and presently resides in a storage locker after several passes through a sorting facility near me. It’s an unfunny comedy of errors with my paid goods on the line… 🙀
 
My parcels usually all come from Amazon.. but occasionally Royal Mail, DPD..UPS..or Hermes.!!

Hermes.. are by far the worst.

One of my neighbours buys from a company that deals with Hermes only.. and the regular female driver who delivers in her own vehicle, walks up to the door with the parcel, while smoking and talking VERY loudly to a friend on her phone.,

Two days ago I had a delivery where the company had used Hermes.. there was 2 parcels.. they were on board, Hermes had kept me up-to-date with emails the whole day.. even showing a picture of the driver.

When the driver arrived it was almost 8pm and dark... . he handed me one parcel. I asked if he didn't have 2 for me, as I was expecting a second , and he said No, only one.

So I tell him that according to the emails I'd been getting all day from Hermes, he had 2 on Board , one from X store and the other from Y store.

Oh says he..'' Y store ?.. I didn't realise that one was for you, because it didn't have a phone number on it'' ...:oops:

..he then goes back to the van and gets my second parcel, but as he gives it to me he starts to waffle, trying to justify why he didn't deliver it with the first and denied he had it on board, but it was clear to me that if I hadn't known he had them and told him so.., that parcel would have disappeared..
 
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So I tell him that according to the emails I'd been getting all day from Hermes, he had 2 on Board , one from X store and the other from Y store.

Oh says he..'' Y store ?.. I didn't realise that one was for you, because it didn't have a phone number on it'' ...:oops:

..he then goes back to the van and gets my second parcel, but as he gives it to me he starts to wafflle, trying to justify why he didn't deliver it with the first and denied he had it on board, but it was clear to me that if I hadn't known he had them and told him so.., that parcel would have disappeared..
No phone number? That's about as lame as it gets! Signing up for package notifications (and mail notifications) is the best thing they've come up with in years!
 

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