What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[WinterDeere]

It's obvious the manufacturer never used their own products.

... that's what it basically comes down to. I mean, we've been making cerial boxes and frozen food boxes for what... 100 years? Not exactly cutting-edge science, to where we should still be seeing regular failures in packaging.

There's a certain ration of tear-strip width to connector tie width, which will gaurantee a fail-free pull every time. Companies should have design standards for things like this... it's just too easy to get something like this right, after so many decades of literally billions of similar units made, for there to be any excuse for getting it wrong.

 

[BravoXray]

In the trucking business, we were often times the scapegoat for shipments being late. Driver would get loaded, call the consignee to advise when he would deliver, only to be yelled at because the shipper told them it had been shipped a few days ago. All the driver had to do was to show the consignee the ship date on the BOL, scale ticket or other dated document to prove when it was actually shipped.

My motto was "Bad planning on your part doesn't constitute an emergency on my part."

 

[WinterDeere]

In the trucking business, we were often times the scapegoat for shipments being late.

FedEx plays similar games on the tail end of the process. I routinely see their drivers declare packages as "Delivered" the day before they actually show up to deliver the thing.

It seems this occurs when they are unable to finish their route on a given evening, but don't want to get dinged for failure to complete the route. So they mark it as delivered at the end of their shift, and then show up with the thing the following morning.

It creates problems when customers see their package shows "delivered", and then report it as missing, since they never received it. Not an issue for customers who may be slower to check tracking and delivery status, but I'm often waiting by the hour for mine to show up, and receiving real-time status updates. More than once, I've reported a "delivered" FedEx package missing on Tuesday night, just to have the driver show up with it Wednesday morning.

UPS and USPS don't play these games, at least around here. But I will admit, this might be a driver-dependent problem, and others might have the opposite experience.

 

[Shawn T. W.]

FedEx ground, and there home delivery branch are independent contractors, who quite often hire there own drivers ... I had to buy the uniforms and lease the scanner ...

I bought my own Dodge Sprinter van back in '05 and tried that gig ... Lasted 7-8 months, it's a hard way to make a living, at least on my route ... 350-400 miles a day lucky to get 50 packages delivered in a day, I drove pretty much from East to West covering Southern Vermont from NH border to NY border all over the Green Mountains, half were dirt mountain roads ... I paid for the fuel ... Nov - Dec 16-20 hours a day, 6-7 days a week ...

Back then we had to transmit the daily download of the scanner before midnight ... There were a "few" times at around 23:30 I'd scan the last few packages as "delivered" then proceeded to actually deliver them, I hated pulling into someone's drive after midnight, but I got there package there!

Xmas morning I still had packages on my truck that I had not scanned yet, so I went back out at 05:00 ... Got to one house around 07:00 and got YELLED at for being out on Xmas morning, told I should be home with my family ... The guy ended up being nice, and offered me some cookies, but I explained I signed a contract, and I was tired and went home at 01:00 and got a few hours of sleep ...

Sometimes the district manager would scan a package saying it was on my van out for delivery, but I had already left the terminal, people would flag me down saying I had there package ...