Connecting People & Possibilities My Ass!

Here is another perfect example of shoddy workmanship!

Although, not technically workmanship and not town specific this illustrates how lazy we've become as a society.

The picture above shows (circled in red) where the FedEx delivery person chose to put place the package that my neighbors ordered.  The package was NOT placed by the front door, it was NOT placed on the stone wall next to the stairs and it was NOT placed in front of or near the garage doors!  The package, as you can see, was obscurely placed in the grass along side the driveway about halfway down from the street.  

The other carriers, UPS and Amazon, do NO such thing.  They typically place the packages between the two garage doors.

Now a bit of history, from what I've seen - this one particular FedEx driver is younger, I've NEVER seen him wearing anything FedEx related; certainly NO uniform.  In the warmer months he's in shorts, often time a 'wife-beater' type t-shirt and some sort of brightly colored sneakers. He drives one of the larger FedEx trucks, which he drives like a sports car, super fast and always has the radio blaring some godawful crap music.  I've seen him drop packages off curbside, beneath mailboxes, against trees in front yards, in front yards, as shown above, and sometime where they should be placed. 

On two occasions, with packages for our house, he pulled the same crap.  Package #1 was a mini-fridge we ordered for Emilie's dorm room, so a big box that was awkward and heavy.  He double parked at the end of the driveway and proceeded to attempt to carry this box down the driveway.  Halfway down it slipped out of his grasp, fell to the ground and that is where he left it!  Package #2 was a small package but it was raining, so he drove his truck into our driveway, pulled down to the stone retaining wall where he positioned the truck such that all he had to do was lean out the door and dropped in on the wall AND he failed to put the box in a plastic bag to protect it from the rain.

The person is the epitome of laziness.  It's sadly a reflection of what I see as part of the problem with people today, he doesn't care.  He takes no pride in his job, nor does he care about what he's been hired to do.  How he's still employed is a mystery to me.  He has no business being customer facing.

I try to limit my online purchases from business that deliver via FedEx.