I’ve come to the conclusions that all package delivery carriers suck.
I returned home the other day, and parked in front of my house, which I don’t normally do. I happened to look at the side gate, which I also don’t normally do, and realized that something was behind the gate.
I opened the gate, and there were two Fedex packages.
The backstory is that my mother passed away exactly two months ago (to the day), and people were sending me a lot of things – flowers, gift baskets, etc. The trouble was that I wasn’t home to collect a lot of these packages, so I had to pick a few up, or synch my schedule so that I was home during delivery hours.
I guess my FedEx delivery man (whom I’ve nicknamed Fred X.) got sick of ringing my unanswered doorbell, because Fred decided to just lob the packages over the side of the gate without bothering to leave a little note that says: “We were so freakin’ lazy and didn’t want to keep returning to your house, so we lobbed packages randomly over your fence, with no regard for weather conditions or potentially fragile items.”
I didn’t notice them – because why would I? – so I suppose they’ve been sitting over there, undetected, for TWO MONTHS! Two whole months in rain, snow, withstanding animal sniffings and probably cat pee.
I opened them, and inside of the large box was a perfectly preserved gift basket. One of my girlfriends mentioned that she’d sent a gift basket, but during the haze of my craziness, it didn’t fully register that I never received it.
The other was a DVD, which appears to be okay.
I used to boycott UPS, but now I’ve added FedEx to the list. I might just use the USPS next time I mail a package, because at least I expect the level of poor customer service that I receive. And sometimes I’m surprised by efficiency.
