• haunte@leminal.space
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    3 months ago

    You mean we were one roulette spin away from having the absolute worst shipping company of all time from not existing? The universe fucked us man. Fuck Fed Ex. They are the one company that actively hates your shit. I think they try to break stuff on purpose.

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      3 months ago

      Someone has never had to deal with DHL.

      You’d think the Germans would be fantastic at logistics, but in this case, you’d be very wrong.

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            3 months ago

            indeed. they once dropped my package in front of a random house 3 streets away and we played a guessing game over the visisble surroundings on the delivery “success” picture. without success on our part, the person living there found us first. since the adress on the packaging wasnt as hard to find

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        3 months ago

        Someone has never had to deal with Evri Hermes in the UK. Or TNT. Christ theyre terrible.

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          3 months ago

          Order a chair online. Order confirmation email: “we’ll be in touch in 48 hours with shipping information” Email from Hermes: “we’re expecting your package” Me: ah fuck

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      3 months ago

      I never have had the bad experiences that many claim with shipping companies. I used to praise FedEx as they would make shipments when I was doing apple warranty repairs. If I ordered a replacement part by 5pm, they would have it the next morning before 10am at our facility. Their shipments were $6.95 for any of the parts as well, never understood how they could do it at the time. Circa 2011,12 time period. I’m sure it was because Apple paid them a shit ton, but was like magic.

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      3 months ago

      Ups staffs their warehouses (or at least did when I worked there as a temp) heavily with temp agency staff who they can toss at any point, they don’t give a shit and while my experience was on the packing side (shrink wrapped bundles, barcode stickers, in store displays) some people did do the shipping side, it sucked and they talked about people throwing things around to meet targets, the quotas were unreasonable, paid next to nothing and the threat of termination was used as a “motivator”, by far the worst working experience of my life and I expect FedEx does the same thing. Met some cool people though so not all bad.

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      I never hold anything against FedEx employees because I talk with the drivers often as they deliver to my workplace and they run their drivers so fucking hard, not a single driver has said they like the job. It pays them well, but the trucks are always bad quality and breaking down, and the drivers barely have time to take breaks and eat while getting done at a good time most days.

      I always feel bad for them.

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      3 months ago

      UPS is the worst in my neck of the woods. Their delivery estimates are always way off and I often get seriously damaged goods from them.

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      3 months ago

      oh wow, you must lead a sheltered life if the worst you’ve ever had is fed-ex. bud, they’re actually average compared to UPS, DHL etc