Shipping companies hates me

With the shipping season in full effect, does anyone else get angry delivery man? Seems some of these deliver people get angry at me for delivering two to four boxes of 12 wines per box. I could be wrong but seems FedEx usually lies and states they try to deliver but nobody was home even though somebody was home all day.

All my wine ships to an offsite so I don’t have to deal with the shipping crap. I used to have UPS always deliver wine at the end of the day after it had sat on a hot truck. No thanks

I always tip my UPS and Fedex delivery persons. Never a problem.

I don’t get it. Their job is to deliver packages. You get one, your neighbor gets one, and three other neighbors get one each. How is that better or worse than delivering five to you? You’re providing a job for the guy.

As far as tipping, he’s doing his job. He gets paid for it. He should be tipping you for keeping him employed.

Your neighbor gets a pair of slacks; you get 50 lbs of wine (every other day for several weeks for some of you!). I can see it getting old

Agreed. One of the absolute best things about my offsite is their handling of shipments. Mine just receives the boxes into a holding locker within the storage area (temporarily assigned to me), and I can go pick them up / transfer them to my main locker at my convenience (they ask within a month or so).

Business address v. private home. Big difference.

Many of these problems/complaints are localized to particular employees that don’t care about their job and just want to finish their route ASAP.

I don’t have an off-site wine storage facility and I am retired. Home is the place. UPS is the worst for me because if I have to pick it up, their location is 30 miles away. FedEx and LSO (a Texas thing) have local offices.

With the shipping season in full effect, does anyone else get angry delivery man? Seems some of these deliver people get angry at me for delivering two to four boxes of 12 wines per box. I could be wrong but seems FedEx usually lies and states they try to deliver but nobody was home even though somebody was home all day.

Don’t you have FedEx Office as an option?

That was my first thought, too.

Both Fedex and UPS will deliver to a local holding point. For me it is a Walgreens or the local UPS store, both close.

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All of my wine is delivered to my office. I have had both UPS and FedEx people complain about deliveries and tell me there are options in town for buying wine. I tried explaining to the first few that the wine I buy is not what i can get locally. I finally gave up.

My clients do not give me tips or bonuses for doing my job, my employer does.

Had a Cellaraiders order delivered today* that was set for delivery by EOD Thursday, so I feel your pain.

  • Not Cellaraiders fault, this was Fedex Ground per my choice, delivered via a Budget truck.

We generally don’t have any problems. Our delivery drivers are dropping off 3-6 amazon packages a week anyway so what is a few more!

They do get slightly confused by how much wine is incoming around this time of year. They must think we throw a hell of a Thanksgiving party.

TW

The FedEx, UPS, GSO people deliver to my office and use a hand cart and the elevator, so I don’t think they have too much to complain about. My assistants have never said anything about them being grumpy.

My home UPS guy often doesn’t even ring my bell (for normal packages), presumably because of my dogs… but I wish he would so I know when the packages arrive.

I get all my deliveries at my office, but I make sure to give a bottle to the shipping department guy at the end of the season since it is not a work related delivery.

JF

If I read the OP correctly, there is not actually evidence of an angry driver, just a “tried to deliver” when someone was actually home. I’ve had those on deliveries of quite light items , so think there’s some projection going on here. Plus, most routes have same driver, so delaying a delivery doesn’t save any lifting, though it may get driver home a few minutes earlier on a particular night. But he’ll need to deliver next day. He may have to unload at end of day anyway for rescan.

I’m lucky enough to have an office where I can get my wine deliveries In 20+ years no driver has ever seemed grumpy about wine cases (though there have been some generally grumpy drivers). As a general rule I’ve found if you are pleasant to drivers they are nice to you. At years end I have tipped those who are regular and helpful (in the case of the one who was interested in wine with wine). I didn’t regard it as a “fee”, but as an appreciation of good service.
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It’s good to know if I need a urologist he will tip me as I am providing his job.

You mean Fedex dropoff location? I do but get this, for some reason whenever I do that my wines get delivered 3 days later.

I do too. We’re on the best of terms and I get fantastic service.