FedEx driver dumped packages in ravine at least 6 times

[dalton99a]

https://www.al.com/news/2021/11/fedex-driver-dumped-packages-in-ravine-at-least-6-times-450-people-victims-of-theft-sheriff-says.html

FedEx driver dumped packages in ravine at least 6 times; 450 people victims of theft, sheriff says
Updated: Nov. 30, 2021, 9:18 a.m. | Published: Nov. 30, 2021, 9:18 a.m.
By Carol Robinson | [e-mail]

A FedEx Ground driver dumped hundreds of packages in a Blount County ravine at least six different times, Sheriff Mark Moon said Tuesday.

The driver’s identity has not been publicly released, but FedEx officials told AL.com Monday that the driver is no longer providing service on behalf of the company.

Moon said FedEx is now a victim of six different theft of property cases involving about 450 individual victims.

Some of those are Blount County residents and some are not, the sheriff said.

[underpants]

1. Trump thinks there are votes in there

[LuckyLib]

2. So FedEx couldn't track the common denominator of

who was driving the trucks of the missing packages? Hmmmm.

[Silent3]

4. It's hard to tell from the story what the time frame is

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It probably takes at least a little while for enough customers to complain about their expected packages not arriving, and time for those complaints to be relayed to Fedex by the vendors if customers contact their vendors rather than Fedex with their complaints, so that a pattern emerges and red flags are raised. I'm sure Fedex would have caught on at some point even if the dumped packages hadn't been spotted first.

Even if the common denominator is a particular driver, in some cases it could be than the driver in common isn't the problem, but the places where that driver drives, like neighborhoods with a lot of porch pirates.

[Hortensis]

11. Yup. As you say, and that point wouldn't have been very long,

even without the boxes in the ravine being found. The driver likely has mental/emotional issuses. At least he tossed boxes instead of plowing the truck through a crowd.

[Baitball Blogger]

23. And some don't complain at all.

I know, because I think two of those packages are mine. I delivered them to a relative a couple of months ago, and they wouldn't bother with a complaint. It took me a while to figure out that they just resign themselves to these kind of abuses, because it happens all too often.

[Wingus Dingus]

5. Yeah, honestly. Map out the (numerous) complaints and look at who drives that route. Christ.

[Amishman]

16. signal to noise issue

How many other packages are reported stolen off people's porches every day? Especially this time of year?

What percentage of the load was dumped each time?

Given the volume that Fedex handles in a day, this probably wouldn't stand out like you would expect

[louis-t]

3. Chuck Noland should deliver them all.

[Tetrachloride]

6. This seems awful slow. Depot management weak

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Lock this idiot up

Firing him is letting him off too easy

[Baitball Blogger]

22. +1

[Bayard]

8. I bet this happens more than people know

Most of our FedX packages are delivered here by contractors now. Who knows how well they're screened? I can see this happening if they are being pressured about deadlines.

[Baitball Blogger]

21. +1

[ms liberty]

9. This was Fed Ex Ground, which is contractor operated

Fed Ex Express is corporate owned and operated. I don't have time to go over this in detail, and I've passed this info on before, but the short version is that this is one reason why Express is better than Ground.

[Hortensis]

12. Thanks.

[Duppers]

10. Alabama

Glad it's not Blount Co., Tennessee.

[alphafemale]

13. There could have been medications in there.

Some people really don't give a sh-t about others.

Let alone any job integrity.

[llmart]

15. No monitoring of the driver's whereabouts as he did his route?

These trucks are all equipped with GPS. My brother drove for FedEx for a year back in the 1990's and he said they monitored everything he did. He once stopped at a farm stand to get some produce and got called in by his boss who confronted him about using company time to do personal errands.

[Amishman]

17. given their staffing issues, probably no time for that type of due diligence

Fedex is short handed across the board going into the holiday rush, so much that they gave an earnings warning last quarter that it would impact the company's overall revenue significantly.

[llmart]

19. Maybe they have a staffing shortage because of the way they treat their delivery drivers.

My brother had been a truck driver all his life for a family owned electrical supply company, and in his late 50's got the job at Fedex. He said they would actually monitor and track how many minutes it took for him to delivery something. They were given a certain number of minutes and they were told to run from the truck to the door back to the truck. Ha! Knowing my brother, he probably said, "F... this crappy job" and he quit.

[HAB911]

18. LOL! the driver is no longer providing service on behalf of the company

the driver HAS NEVER provided service on behalf of the company


FIXED IT

[Baitball Blogger]

20. Some of those boxes look tampered with.