UPS Hires Very Incompetent Drivers

[Destroyer]

So what is worse then eagerly awaiting a package to arrive at your house? Being within 50 feet of that package and having it drive away again.

I ordered an interior emergency lightbar to have as a dash light for my EMS and firefighting. It has been ordered since then 27th and is being delivered by UPS. Well today I looked at the tracker and my package was in town and had the order status: Out for Delivery. How exciting.

I live in a cul-de-sack so when a car comes down our street pretty much everybody knows about it. So I see headlights and look to see a UPS truck pull up, and stop in front of my house. After a minute or two pass I get out of bed and go to the door to claim my package only to find the idiot drove away without delivering it. I went to the tracker to find the status: "Exception- A CORRECT STREET NUMBER IS NEEDED FOR DELIVERY. UPS IS ATTEMPTING TO OBTAIN THIS INFORMATION". So I decided to check my order, all of my correct info was there.

The loving idiot was literally out front of my house for 5 minutes leading me to believe he doesn't know how to read packages properly. An hour later the status changed saying the "problem" was sorted out and delivery was rescheduled. No clue when, just rescheduled. This should have never even happened.

UPS is a joke.

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[XR-7]

We actually have better UPS guys than FedEx (horrible).  The only odd thing is that the UPS guys seem to have a complex against customers.  One time, the doorbell rang when I was standing right by the door, I immediately looked out the hole, and the guy was gone.  Thing is, they do it every time.  It seems they tiptoe to the front door, drop the package, get in running stance, bump the doorbell, and go dashing for the truck.

[Flamecannon]

It seems to vary from area to area, mine are fine they do their job, and at least they aren't like that one person who drove on their lawn, lazily dropped the package, and then backed out. But yeah I understand that you wouldn't want Kevin James to deliver your packages.

[Muslim]

Don't blame UPS, blame the driver.

[SlayerZ99]

We've been recently having problems where they leave a slip saying they couldn't deliver it in our mailbox lol

[Destroyer]

FedEx is awful here as well. About a week ago I'm at my friends house and he is working on his car, he had a car part ordered.

FedEx truck pulls up, parks, and starts looking through the inside of his truck. 5 minutes pass, he gets out and starts opening all the other compartments on his truck. After 10 minutes of that he gets in the truck and drives away. THEN, all the way up the road throws his reverse lights on, backs down the whole street back to my friends house as we are now inside. Gets out, opens another door, pulls my friends package out and leans it on his car, then drives away.

He didn't even ring the bell, he just leaned it against the car in the driveway and left.

[Ichigo123]

We actually have better UPS guys than FedEx (horrible).  The only odd thing is that the UPS guys seem to have a complex against customers.  One time, the doorbell rang when I was standing right by the door, I immediately looked out the hole, and the guy was gone.  Thing is, they do it every time.  It seems they tiptoe to the front door, drop the package, get in running stance, bump the doorbell, and go dashing for the truck.

I hate when they do that lol

[XR-7]

Here are some problems we've had with FedEx:

One time, my dad was wondering where one of his packages was that was supposed to be delivered in the afternoon.  The next day, he opens the mailbox and finds a wrinkled, crushed box crammed into the mailbox.  He complains and FedEx just says "Yeah we'll tell him to stop."

Another time, my mom ordered some special facewash or something, and the FedEx guy didn't want to come down the driveway, so he left the package sitting on top of our mailbox.  Our mailbox is across the street and in my neighbor's yard so that the mail truck (a Jeep Liberty lol) doesn't have to make two passes down the street.

My dad ordered a flatscreen TV and FedEx just left it sitting on the driveway when we were not home.  We come home, and luckily it wasn't stolen....yet.

There is a door by my garage door that has a doorbell on it, and then there's the front door around the side.  We don't have access to that little garage door so we leave notes ON the doorbell that says, "Please take the package to the front door." The guy rings that doorbell anyway and leaves the package on the driveway.

So....we haven't really been using FedEx much.

[Bisjac]

ups once left 2 liter glass jar, Boxed of course, nitric acid on the sidewalk outside my place...
hazardous material. just sitting there without a signature. getting dangerously hot in the sun.

[devildogelite]

My UPS driver is the loving bomb. I order a lot of stuff online and will always choose to go by UPS if I can. Mostly because I know the driver but it also always get's here in the estimated time if not a day or two early.

The same guy has been my UPS driver for awhile. Last year I got a new stereo system for my room and I got some large speakers delivered. They're about 4 feet tall and were pretty heavy. The UPS driver brought them in and didn't throw them around or anything. I went out to help take them in because they were pretty big and there were 4 of them. I had to insist I would do it.

But he also had a discussion with me about the speakers. He was interested in the speakers and was generally just really nice. I have never had a bad experience with UPS, whenever I see someone complaining about them I realize how lucky I am. Never have I had a delivery come in broken.

ups once left 2 liter glass jar, Boxed of course, nitric acid on the sidewalk outside my place...
hazardous material. just sitting there without a signature. getting dangerously hot in the sun.

Where did you order that from? Quite a few places have been known to not properly label hazardous material stuff like that. I know when I bought sodium it had no dangerous material labeling on it at all. The place I ordered it from was actually raided by the FBI for shipping hazmat materials without labeling it.

[.:FancyPants:.]

although my personal experiences with either FedEx or UPS isn't very different, UPS drops the package straight at my doorstep and rings the bell, while FedEx leaves it at the PO, making it take an extra business day to arrive. More often than not, FedEx-delivered boxes have arrived with crushed corners. go UPS.

[Dexxtter]

We actually have better UPS guys than FedEx (horrible).  The only odd thing is that the UPS guys seem to have a complex against customers.  One time, the doorbell rang when I was standing right by the door, I immediately looked out the hole, and the guy was gone.  Thing is, they do it every time.  It seems they tiptoe to the front door, drop the package, get in running stance, bump the doorbell, and go dashing for the truck.

that would totally be me if i had that job

[Jubel]

im really scared of sending stuff to american friends because they leave the package on your doorway
thats really stupid, put it in the mailboxes or leave it at a nearby station for you to pick up that way it cant be stolen

[@Ravencroft]

I always get 1 day shipping or 2-3 days shipping and it comes right on time. I order a lot of stuff online too.

[Dragonslayer182]

....Am I the only one that has had no problems with UPS drivers?