Strange Fed-Ex delevery hours

[missioncontrol]

Fed-Ex has brought me two things in the last week at some really weird times...

Last Sunday I logged onto the internet to find a message from a seller that I should have recieved a package Saturday according to the the fed-ex online tracking service. I opened the door and sure enough there it was. I know it wasn't there Saturday evening because I would have tripped on it comming home Saturday evening.....

Ysterday I went to bed about 4 PM like allways the wife left to take my daughter to her lessons around 6 and when she arrived home a few hours later there was a letter that I had been expecting.

I wonder why they are delivering to me at weird times....

anybody else getting weird delivery times?

[Stingray]

Could be that your delivery guy has been running behind and he's trying to get gaught up after hours and on weekends.

-S

[ChadTower]

Or he's half assed and has to come back to get some things delivered before his bosses find out.

[quarterback]

Fed-Ex has brought me two things in the last week at some really weird times...

I know it wasn't there Saturday evening because I would have tripped on it comming home Saturday evening.....

What time is 'evening'?

the wife left to take my daughter to her lessons around 6 and when she arrived home a few hours later there was a letter that I had been expecting.

Delivering something after 6 isn't necessarily a 'weird time' for FedEx.

[quarterback]

I just went to FedEx.com  not only are locations open until 9pm, but putting a 'sample' delivery through their system for a rate check indicated that one option would get my package delivered by 7pm

[missioncontrol]

What time is 'evening'?



Delivering something after 6 isn't necessarily a 'weird time' for FedEx.

[quarterback]

What I find odd is that we occasionally get two USPS deliveries a day here at the house.  I'm related to a postmaster (in another state) who insists that NO posts offices do multiple deliveries/day anymore, but yet it still happens here.

I've sometimes wondered if it's some rogue postal employee who's been stashing email at home and going through it on their off days, but we haven't had any missing packages or mail afaik.

[missioncontrol]

I get duel USPS deliveries at times.....

[Sephroth57]

maybe your fedex guy is really a transvestite stripper and those are his only off hours

[Harry Potter]

maybe your fedex guy is really a transvestite stripper and those are his only off hours

It's probably someone here.....

[Sephroth57]

no wonder tommy hasnt been posting much lately....

[Harry Potter]

I was gonna type that! 

Better take a break from Tommy bashing 

[Sephroth57]

lol i feel bad sometimes, i dunno how he became the board scapegoat

[Stingray]

I've decided that I'm going to leave him alone.

Unless the setup is just too good to resist.

-S

[ChadTower]

God is the one that burned him, we're just piling on.

[missioncontrol]

maybe your fedex guy is really a transvestite stripper and those are his only off hours

I've never ever seen our fed-ex guy he just leaves packages on the porch and leaves. I'm begining to think the tooth fairy has had to take the fed-ex job to pay for everyone's teeth???

[Kremmit]

There's two different FedEx Guys. 

FedEx Express (Federal Express) is the guy in the truck with the Purple/Red FedEx logo.  He carries the Overnight, two-day, and three-day packages.  He's a company employee, driving a company truck, and he has to be done by such-n-such a time every day so he can make the airport in time for his pickups to get on the plane.  He's not the one showing up late.

FedEx Ground (or Home Delivery) is the guy in the truck with the Purple/Green FedEx logo.  He carries the slow, cheap packages- no overnights, no time commitments.  He is NOT an employee, he's in independant contractor, driving a truck he owns, and if he's from the Home Delivery side, he does not have to be back at the terminal by any specific time, because he doesn't make pickups.  FedEx overloads these guys badly, because they don't have to pay overtime.  He's the one out delivering at 8pm, or on Sunday AM, trying to catch up.

[Samstag]

There's two different FedEx Guys.

[missioncontrol]

Well the good thing for me is that they just leave the package on the porch instead of leaving me a note...........

[duffjr]

I was waiting by the door for the mailman to drop off this xbox live subscription.  I open the door and find a note that says he missed me with a box checked saying it's being stored at the post office for pickup.  I have to wait in this huge line.  I try to cut it and complain about what happened saying I just want the CD, but the lady tells me to get in the line behind everyone sending outgoing packages.   I was so pissed I just started running back home and left my friend there.  I hate that line beyond everything else, but there was a 25-year-old hot chick dancing around in the mailroom...

[paigeoliver]

I have often found that the mailman will walk all the normal mail around the neighborhood and then go around and deliver the packages on a second run. Depending on the size of your neighborhood that could space the two events hours apart.

[quarterback]

I was waiting by the door for the mailman to drop off this xbox live subscription.  I open the door and find a note that says he missed me with a box checked saying it's being stored at the post office for pickup.  I have to wait in this huge line.  I try to cut it and complain about what happened saying I just want the CD, but the lady tells me to get in the line behind everyone sending outgoing packages.   I was so pissed I just started running back home and left my friend there.  I hate that line beyond everything else, but there was a 25-year-old hot chick dancing around in the mailroom...

....and then there was this large cheeseburger, but when I picked it up it started to talk.  And the funny thing was, it talked just like Garth Brooks.  And then it started singing  "The Dance" and I asked the person next to me for a quarter.  I took the quarter and flipped it up into the air and it landed "heads", which really sucked because I was hoping it would land "tails" up.  So I picked it up and put it in my pocket.  But when I looked up, I was in a planetarium.  There was a Pink Floyd Laser Light show going on and "Money" was playing.  The lasers were spelling out "MONEY" on the ceiling.   So I sat down at the end of the row only to see my 1st grade teacher sitting next to me.  I asked her what she had been doing for the last thirty years and she told me that she had moved to Alaska and was working on a fishing boat.  This was really surprising since my best friend, Billy, had been doing the exact same thing and had just returned.  When he came back to town, we went to McDonalds and had lunch.  I ordered the Big Mac and he tried to order a Whopper.  Man, that was funny.  The thing is, he'd been on the fishing boat for so long, he'd forgotten that McDonald's doesn't make the "whopper", Burger King does.  I've always like McDonalds' fries better than  Burger King's, but Bruger King makes a better fish sandwich.  When I got home after having lunch, my phone rang and it was the cable guys.  Man I was pissed off that they still hadn't fixed my cable, and I told them so. While I was on the phone, I looked out the window and saw a bird.

The End.  Thanks for coming to this week's edition of Random Ramblings with your hosts duffjr & quarterback.

[duffjr]

your story is highly subjective.

[duffjr]

I have often found that the mailman will walk all the normal mail around the neighborhood and then go around and deliver the packages on a second run. Depending on the size of your neighborhood that could space the two events hours apart.

he's supposed to shove it in the mailbox if it's not that big.  actually, he could have rung the doorbell when i was eating a sandwich, but we have this back and forth feud going because i park in front of the mailbox so he has to get out of the car.

[ChadTower]

You seem to know nothing about the Postal Carrier's Union rules.  They don't have to do anything.  My mailman won't get out of his truck.  If there is a parked car by the mailbox, no mail.  If the recycling bins are out by the box, no mail.  If there is a few inches of snow, a person talking, or his bunions hurt, no mail.  I'd say twice a week we don't get our mail because the mailman is lazy.

When we complain, the postal clerks tell us union rules state that he does not have to get out of his truck.

So much for the postal oath.

[Stingray]

I was waiting by the door for the mailman to drop off this xbox live subscription.  I open the door and find a note that says he missed me with a box checked saying it's being stored at the post office for pickup.  I have to wait in this huge line.  I try to cut it and complain about what happened saying I just want the CD, but the lady tells me to get in the line behind everyone sending outgoing packages.   I was so pissed I just started running back home and left my friend there.  I hate that line beyond everything else, but there was a 25-year-old hot chick dancing around in the mailroom...

....and then there was this large cheeseburger, but when I picked it up it started to talk.  And the funny thing was, it talked just like Garth Brooks.  And then it started singing  "The Dance" and I asked the person next to me for a quarter.  I took the quarter and flipped it up into the air and it landed "heads", which really sucked because I was hoping it would land "tails" up.  So I picked it up and put it in my pocket.  But when I looked up, I was in a planetarium.  There was a Pink Floyd Laser Light show going on and "Money" was playing.  The lasers were spelling out "MONEY" on the ceiling.   So I sat down at the end of the row only to see my 1st grade teacher sitting next to me.  I asked her what she had been doing for the last thirty years and she told me that she had moved to Alaska and was working on a fishing boat.  This was really surprising since my best friend, Billy, had been doing the exact same thing and had just returned.  When he came back to town, we went to McDonalds and had lunch.  I ordered the Big Mac and he tried to order a Whopper.  Man, that was funny.  The thing is, he'd been on the fishing boat for so long, he'd forgotten that McDonald's doesn't make the "whopper", Burger King does.  I've always like McDonalds' fries better than  Burger King's, but Bruger King makes a better fish sandwich.  When I got home after having lunch, my phone rang and it was the cable guys.  Man I was pissed off that they still hadn't fixed my cable, and I told them so. While I was on the phone, I looked out the window and saw a bird.

The End.  Thanks for coming to this week's edition of Random Ramblings with your hosts duffjr & quarterback.

This is exactly like trying to hold a conversation with my wife's grandfather.

-S

[ChadTower]

Or most women.