This is why your FedEx Ground package is almost always damaged…

Ever wondered why you packages are damaged? This is why

[kai]

I’m a package handler lol. We have to unload 20-60, 000 packages within 5 hours. Trucks can cary 500-2, 000 packages with walls up to 10 feet tall. Trailers turn into saunas in the summer and freezers in the winter. We’re instructed to care more about our physical health than things that can be reordered. It’s also extremely difficult to worry about every single order when going through 2-3k packages per shift. By the 3rd hour everyone just wants to get it done and over with. Things mainly get messed up while the truck is moving anyways. It’s always a mess when the doors first open. Mangers open the bay doors, and literally have to run away from falling boxes. Mainly boxes labeled “Chewy” containing 1 or 2 bags of animal food.

[jaredbarhorst]

Yes. And it goes down belts and chutes with packages weighing up to 150lbs.

[wubbahead]

not to mention the ducts the boxes go through. boxes are dropped onto others, smash in the sides of others. some come completely exploded. Ive watched heavy boxes smash fragile boxes full of pottery or glass. don’t ship through fedex ground youll have better luck with fedex express

[bariboyb]

I used to work at ground as a package handler. How fast we have to fill the quota is vastly more important to the managers than the state of the packages, so literally nobody gives af about the packages there.

[Ch-igwh]

It’s a numerous of things, package handlers, drivers not caring because they have 200 plus stops and getting paid 130 a day no overtime cheap contracted managers who do illegal stuff just to get the route out they don’t care

[TheStranger]

Who else is lifting a bunch of packages that say "team lift" on it but there's no team. It's just you lol.

[zmbieghst]

Working as a package handler is hard. You have to go at a fast paced and reach a goal of how many packages per hour. Also having to carry heavier items. For 1 package handler there's 3 trucks they have to fill up so its not easy. The conveyer built goes quick so the worker has to move as quick.

[andrewlopez]

Chewy packages can be heavy with only one strip of tape. Chewy package department is a huge joke.

[heatherrowley]

I work at FedEx Express and this is so true, i will say that we deal with packages non stop for hours on end, heavy, light, obnoxiously large, incredibly small, and even car parts, something is bound to get torn, wet or destroyed

[Soccertz]

That’s definitely not the main reason. It gets squished in the chute before being loaded onto the truck.

[niagrantham]

He’s not lying I used to work as a unloaded at FEDEX and when I say that shit is not organized in them tucks it’s not it’s all thrown together literally

[Realjaysonsledge]

I ain’t breaking my back for no chewy boxes or people arcade machines 💀 and Idgaf what the arrow tells me how to stand the package I stand it how I want it

[arcticzerogaming]

Coming from someone who works on the IC Line, you damn right it’ll be smashed we ain’t got time to easily and slowly pull couches, furnaces, fridges, etc. off the belt when we got a 34k-38k ratio and wanna get out by 9am for the drivers to leave😂

[preciousbey]

I work at fedex express and yea ive seen a few boxes broken open and i myself broke one package open... Simply bc management wants y to get the work done quickly they don't want u to stop the belt, package get throen on the floor and sometimes just dall bc tge belt id so full..

[jparkerj]

FedEx gotta learn from Korea. Max 2 to 3 days delivery. Punctual. Doesn’t lie about "attempted delivery". Packages are ompletely intact, all the time.

[MikeCfreeStyleS]

Tips are thoughts or ideas that can help people accomplish tasks more effectively and/or efficiently. These facts do no such thing, sir. I do appreciate the honesty, though!

[joseph-olnt]

I was fully expecting a video of someone punting a box

[Dbrizle]

lol being a package handler sucks idk why I still do it, your manager is just honestly be lazy and doesn’t wanna help or send help when you’re getting swamped! I feel bad for all the damaged boxes but unfortunately I need to load this trailer before my lazy manger gets on my as !

[remb]

They also put your parcels on conveyor belts for sorting that drop them 12 feet into a bin and some plants do this manually where workers actually sort packages and literally throw them up to 30-40 feet into corresponding bins for different routes

[cartooner]

Free 2-day delivery: Doesn’t ship or deliver on thanksgiving, forgets Sunday unless you pay more, takes a year to even go out for delivery, delivers damaged but it doesn’t matter because you’ve already moved out of your house, started a family, retired, and living in a nursing home.