TIL that in the early days of Fed-Ex, there was one time the company couldn't afford the fuel bill for their planes, so the founder took the company's last $5,000 and went to Las Vegas and won $27,000
TIL that in the early days of Fed-Ex, there was one time the company couldn't afford the fuel bill for their planes, so the founder took the company's last $5,000 and went to Las Vegas and won $27,000
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Someone has never had to deal with DHL.
You'd think the Germans would be fantastic at logistics, but in this case, you'd be very wrong.
DHL is not the worst oen operating in germany. its not even close
hermes sets a low bar
Amazon's delivery service is even worse.
indeed. they once dropped my package to a random house 3 streets away and we played a guessing game over the visisble surroundings on the delivery "success" picture. without success on our part, the person living there found us first. since the adress on the packaging wasnt as hard to find
Where I live DHL is quite good, possibly even the best consumer facing logistic company
Someone has never had to deal with
EvriHermes in the UK. Or TNT. Christ theyre terrible.
Ups staffs their warehouses (or at least did when I worked there as a temp) heavily with temp agency staff who they can toss at any point, they don't give a shit and while my experience was on the packing side (shrink wrapped bundles, barcode stickers, in store displays) some people did do the shipping side, it sucked and they talked about people throwing things around, the quotas were unreasonable, paid next to nothing and the threat of termination was used as a "motivator", by far the worst working experience of my life and I expect FedEx does the same thing. Met some cool people though so not all bad.
I never have had the bad experiences that many claim with shipping companies. I used to praise FedEx as they would make shipments when I was doing apple warranty repairs. If I ordered a replacement part by 5pm, they would have it the next morning before 10am at our facility. Their shipments were $6.95 for any of the parts as well, never understood how they could do it at the time. Circa 2011,12 time period. I'm sure it was because Apple paid them a shit ton, but was like magic.
I'm sure the void would have been filled with anither company.
I never hold anything against FedEx employees because I talk with the drivers often as they deliver to my workplace and they run their drivers so fucking hard, not a single driver has said they like the job. It pays them well, but the trucks are always bad quality and breaking down, and the drivers barely have time to take breaks and eat while getting done at a good time most days.
I always feel bad for them.
UPS is the worst in my neck of the woods. Their delivery estimates are always way off and I often get seriously damaged goods from them.
oh wow, you must lead a sheltered life if the worst you've ever had is fed-ex. bud, they're actually average compared to UPS, DHL etc