My wife’s CC was used to buy a go pro that was shipped to the home address.
Within a day of it’s arrival and for a few days later, FedEx was sent to pick it up to take it to some bogus place in Miami.
I called FedEx and they seemed unconcerned about how many times a truck was being sent for nothing.
The camera was returned and damage handled.
I called FedEx and they seemed unconcerned about how many times a truck was being sent for nothing.
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I was contracting out to a Delivery Service that was doing ‘FedEx’ Same Day, which at the time really wasn’t advertised as FedEx was charging about 10 bucks for most anywhere in the country and FESD was paying ME about 1.20 a mile and FE had to pay whoever was hiring me.
I have made standard pickups for FedEx on misroutes and I would pick up something in VA take to airport and fly to wherever and more often than not I drove it at my regular rate.
So FedEx would end up pay a few hundred bucks for a misroute that was paid for at regular rate.
When FE started ‘buying up’ trucking companies, I would basically be delivering some for FedEx that was actually from FedEx to FedEx, paying me and my ‘boss’ in the interim.
AND they still make money....
This small package delivery got so ‘bad’ I am virtually getting paid less today than I was 20 years ago.
Then again when your ‘major’ shippers buy up most of the competition they can get away with that.
There is also a ‘thriving business’ at airports for delivering ‘lost luggage’.
Used to be for that all you would need was decent transportation and the WILL TO WORK and one could make a good living, though the hours etc were kind of ‘iffy’.