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This FedEx driver has never won a round of Tetris in his life (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 30 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

This is exactly why everything ever shipped to me by fedex is late.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    Also because they send fucking everything to Memphis, I had a package that would have been an hour drive take 3 days because of fucking Memphis

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I just had this happen. A package of mine showed up at a port a few hours drive from me, then it was shipped to the opposite coast, then on to Memphis where it's been sitting for a couple days. Presumably at some point they'll ship it back to my state where it started from to actually deliver it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    No no. Quick detour to Australia first. Then we're thinking about testing shipping to the moon and back. Maybe it won't come back. You remember what happened to Buzz Aldrin. They went to the moon, he took one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

    Then his crew said "YOLO!!! SEEYA LATER BUZZ BUZZ!!!" and they left him on the moon. Later in the 90s, he came back as a bumblebee in a short lived role in the video game Earthbound. He dies. Almost immediately.

    Have fun with tracking your package!

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  • [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Uh, ya, that’s how it works.

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    • [–] 26 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    The FedEx driver doesn't fill the truck.

    A more appropriate game would be jenga.

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    • [–] 21 points 2 weeks ago

    Nah, he just read about the mathematically optimal way to pack 17 boxes and wanted to try it himself.

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    [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

    Do the drivers even pack it? For some reason I thought it was a different person or team that did that. But yeah, private shipping companies are awful and I never use them except when forced. USPS forever.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago

    Not usually. I worked as a "Package Handler" (package sorter and loader) as well as an Operations Manager at a FedEx station. The only time drivers loaded their own trucks (or even helped, or were even in the building during the loading), was when too many package handlers were out sick, or maybe during the Xmas rush.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    Depends. When I did holiday work for one of the big shippers the people on board with the driver would help, but mostly the dock people left us the pile and we put it on. Its just not a very Tetris problem because really it's a Last In First Out stack, so you are trying to get it to fit, to not fall over, and also to be roughly in the order you need to reach in and pull it out

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    That implies you take your vehicle home? Most places they have a depot to leave the vehicles and they fill them up at night and it’s ready to go when you walk in the office.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    I'd assume the vans are all parked in a lot; when the driver gets in, they'll grab an available/assigned van, back it into a bay/dock, load up, and go.

    The crew in the warehouse is just responsible for sorting it onto a pallet/bin or two, ready to be loaded.

    I've never worked for a parcel courier specifically; but I've done a fair amount of distribution center work (warehouses that deliver product to businesses).

    The drivers are often responsible for loading their own truck/trailer (not always, but more often than the other way around). Then they can see exactly what they've got, keeping an eye out for hazardous materials or uneven loads. It's their responsibility to ensure a safe load after all; mainly as they're the one that'll have to deal with problems on the road.

    'I wasn't the one to load the truck, I didn't know there was a hazard' doesn't usually go well with emergency services or inspectors out on the road.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Any hazardous materials would have the paperwork that the driver has to sign before driving though.

    How do you think intermodal shipping works? They repack the containers everytime it changes hands?

    There’s plenty of cases where the driver doesn’t specifically need to know what they’re hauling, it’s mostly non of their business actually.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Knowing there's hazardous materials on board, and knowing they've been loaded/secured safely are two different things.

    Again, not always the case; but of the ~15 different warehouses I've worked in, about 2/3 of them had the driver either loading the truck themselves or directly supervising the loading and giving directions of where/how they want it loaded.

    Shipping containers are a little different; typically loaded and sealed with serialised one-time use seals at the warehouse, without driver involvement. But box trucks and flatbeds going directly to customer(s) are more often than not over seen by the driver that's doing the final deliveries. Particularly when the driver is offloading at each destination.

    At least in my direct experience, in my region. Different places, different standards and practices.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Not took home. Just parked in a separate lot on the shippers facility. We would pull up to the dock and load then go. Maybe it was more normal during the year for the loaders to do that part, but I was a holiday worker, so things might have been a little off usual operations.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    When I delivered Amazon packages for USPS on Sundays pickers would sort packages into bins by route then us drivers would organize packages from the bins to the truck. I think that was better than having someone else pack because then I could get a feel for where in the vehicle a specific package was, and I could better place them where I could get them (putting early packages closer to the front to grab or way at the back door if it was very large).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    I've worked for USPS for ~8 months. It's not just a Sundays thing. I've never seen someone else load for someone intentionally. A couple times someone has loaded, then gotten sick or gotten bad news and had to leave. The clerks will sort all the incoming to each route that it goes to, but once it's in the bin for your route it's your problem going forward.

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    • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

    That's how my wife packs the freezer.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

    Then there’s decent airflow in there

    If you’re adding a lot of stuff at once this is good

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

    Don’t let it get that warm in first place? Bring insulated buckets when you get your groceries.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    Freezer needs good airflow otherwise the coils will ice over. Same for the fridge only things have to get really bad there for ice to form.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (4 children)

    If everything is cold, there’s no need for airflow in the middle.

    Why do you think bulk stuff is frozen together and packed as tightly as possible?

    Ice over is a byproduct of humidity from opening and closing the doors.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    You don't understand how a freezer works, you need to look up the difference between convection and conduction. A freezer relies primarily on convection and without airflow you're not getting that hence the coils at the back freeze while the food at the front thaws.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    ??? Apparantly you don’t.

    If you put everything in the center, so there’s airflow around the entire freezer, but the middle is packed solid, there’s the required airflow to prevent what you’re talking about. But optimizes the cooling and minimizes freezer damage from defrost cycles. Since the middle won’t defrost….

    I never said it was packed solid tight you couldn’t stick anything else in. I said the middle specifically, not all over. You should never have anything against the sides of your freezer anyways? Have you not read a manual for one ever? Same for your fridge as well.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    If you put everything in the center, so there’s airflow around the entire freezer [emphasis added]

    This entire thing started by saying a freezer needs airflow, which you then countered by saying as long as it was frozen you don't need airflow, and now you're back peddling by saying you do need airflow. Good to see you actually agreed with every thing I said this whole time but inexplicably couldn't communicate that.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago*

    What?

    Just because something went over your head you’re gonna act like this?

    My comment was obviously in reference to just tossing everything in, which would pack the sides, but leave massive voids IN THE MIDDLE. Which is actually terrible for how to pack a freezer, although “airflow”. But not the right airflow.

    It relates to the posted image. If you can’t comprehend this and you start insulting people… get help.

    If you’re packing your freezer full of boxes like the back of the truck, that’s the wrong way, you’re trying to claim it is the right way, you’re wrong on every level.

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    • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Do the drivers load the truck? I doubt it.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    They don’t.

    Someone else at the company loads everything and the driver just does the route and drops off the stuff.

    Used to have a friend that worked as a UPS driver, she didn’t have good days when the asshole did this instead of organizing it while loading the truck

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    • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    If he fills the row the parcels will dissapear. So all is good.

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    [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Given how terrible almost every FedEx driver I've met is, this was probably at his first stop 1/4 of a mile after leaving the depot.

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    [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    FedEx Ground? Checks out. I've worked for companies that banned shipping through them because of the insanely high breakage rate.

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    [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    They tried lining them up all nice and neat, but then the row of boxes would disappear.

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    [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    That’s just because they took an off ramp on two wheels.

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    [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Or his paycheck is hardly paying for food and he just needs to get shit done instead of playing box tetris and getting delayed and fired.

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    • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Very on brand: FedEx sucks!

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    [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    This FedEx driver never played Tetris in his life, and probably doesn’t even know what it is

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    [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Noone commenting on the impossibility of winning a round of tetris?

    Noone has ever won a round of tetris.

    A computer once figured out how to delay defeat indefinetly, but noone has ever won 😄

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