I worked in a UPS hub for 5 years, there is no way that pie would have made it intact during peak season. If people could see what really goes on in hubs you'd be shocked!!
must be nice to have connections to have your package carefully handled.. 90% of the stuff i order is not handled carefully boxes come here looking like they were used as a ball.. its all of the delivery companies.. ups usps fedex dhl... I have camera around my house and it caught them dropping a badly beaten up box that was supposed to be signed for just dropped on my sidewalk in the rain.. could have taken 3 steps more and would have been on porch.. needless to say ups had to pay to get a new item sent..
how can you trust these pricks with sensitive equipment regardless if it's packed well and it gets thrown around I am scared. make me wonder about buying a RC radio because it might get thrown around
JohnnyWad309 you're right i unload trucks for fedex and the most frustrating this is when there are fucking mattresses and big heavy exercise equipment and the worst this is fucking trampolines
I work at FedEx and I sure you I probably ship about 30 pies a day, so if your right, and that means that all 30 of those pies, just for me alone, would all have to be returned. Those pies make it just fine. You don't know what you're talking about. If the pies broke every time they ship then the lady's business couldn't rely on FedEx and that's all they do is rely on fed ex
I doubt it otherwise the moms pie wouldn't use this shipping company, ive been getting items from FedEx and ups and FedEx for me is the best, ups on the other hand is slow af, waited 5 days to be shipped, waited another 5 days to be delivered, i thought it was 2-3 days..?
Ah no. The automatic sorters send big and little boxes down the chutes and don't take into account which goes first, so you get small boxes crammed between big ones which squashes the little ones, or punches holes in the big ones....
UPS throws light or small packages and packages come down the line with enough force to break your finger so just hope whatever u order is in a big box with lots of foam
Worked at UPS on all levels and I’m now with ground, have been for a few years. Every single package that gets delivered has been man handled at one station or another by a man who over worked and under appreciated. I have seen some dudes flat ass destroy some shit on the belts and in trailers for both companies. When you’re processing a gazillion packages a week, somethings getting broken.
Attila Vidacs FedEx, UPS, and USPS handle millions upon millions of packages on a daily basis. I worked at USPS for a year and am currently at UPS, we have strict deadlines we have to meet. We don't have time to handle every single package like it's a piece of fragile glass. Unless you put a specific sticker on the package to handle with care it's going to get knocked around. The best thing you can do is to pack what ever it is your shipping really well. If carriers treated every package like it was a newborn infant we would be working all night. So before you make ignorant comments about these carriers, who work their asses of by the way. Maybe you should think before you speak. Have a nice day.
I actually work at FedEx and no, we don't kick boxes around. They're actually quite strict on that. If you're caught kicking or throwing boxes, you could be fired instantly.
+DaveyMurray1 exacly, i used to work at Amazon (basically the same as UPS FedEx hubs) the people that are loading the trucks or sorting the packages before loading, Have a strict deadline. If you were careful with all of the packages you would not make that deadline. So you throw them violating the rules Amazon has in place...even though amazon doesn't care. Hell, even the managers would start helping throwing shit into trucks or gaylords (Big boxes on pallets) if the deadline was coming up and we were behind....The key to it is packaging put the item inside a cocoon of bubble wrap and make sure the bubble wrap fills all the voids in the box. If you pack a box properly its basically indestructible at shipping hubs, etc.
Grandalf Because that’s the reality, Used to work at fed ex and I never kicked boxes. I would throw but never kick. There was this black bitch who would kick small boxes out the rollers and into the conveyor belt.
Plot twist: The jet crashes with the pie and the pilot survives ends up on a remote island with the pie, carves a face out of it and talks to it. "Wilson 2000"
I worked there for 26 years and I remember when FedEx delivered me safely to a deserted island then crashed. I was forced to make some homemade shoes I then made friends with a volleyball. Thanks FedEx!
@@LukeNukem82 if you blame people for what others do, your a knuckle dragging mouth breather who has NO critical thought or an understanding of nuance.
@@LukeNukem82the only thing we are really responsible for(we drivers) is getting the package on time(when I say on time I mean we have to deliver it within the day we receive it). When you get a damaged package, 90% of the time is not our fault; we are only the last piece of the puzzle. You know how many people and in how many places that package went through?
I work at UPS and can confirm, this is not all that happens. They seemed to have missed the part where employees wing boxes around and kick shit all over.
Philip J. Hill one time, here in spain, i found my order of a book on the floor inside my house, near the open window. i live 2 floors up the street. fuck spain's national mail service
Calvin Hodgson money, money, money, " we have department stores and toilet paper, we have Styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer ", yes, dear, we have money ...
Was sitting at my window waiting for my iPhone 6s and getting a bit impatient since it's supposed to be delivered today. Watched this and now I'm chilling by the tv because i now have major respect for the process.
Proper investigative journalism would have shipped 2 pies in seperate boxes. This box clearly received VIP treatment. FedEx doesn't even do 24 hour delivery, it's 48 to Hawaii. This was a holiday feel good piece that turned into an ad for fedex. The one good part was seeing the TN facilities and the difficulties handled by the massive task.
FSXNOOB シ Food is probably the worst thing you could ship through us. The fact that there's so many careless handlers who just come in to "get the job done" will make the quality of the shipment not promising. When handlers beginning building into a container, some are idiots and actually stack heavy pieces on top of fragile ones like food and smash the hell out of it and don't even notice. Make sure whatever you ship is covered in bubble wrap and has extra tape on it so the package doesn't bust open on the conveyor belts.
i worked at fedex ground since August of this year, we had an orientation class of 37, and only 7 people stayed, its not an easy job but it is workable, if you treat the job as a workout there's room to move up in the company without bitching an complaining , besides all the yelling and the goals we have to meet as unloaders or loaders its an easy no brainer job, it's easy money
+MusicWorldVNT/Monkey D. Luffy i went on indeed.com, search for fedex ground , look for a sort observation and go on the date it has posted, once you get an interview its almost like there desperately in need of workers so the interview is pretty straight foward, you'll get the job bro
+MusicWorldVNT/Monkey D. Luffy it's my 4th day at FedEx and let me tell you this. It's a none stop lifting and moving from 5 to 10 hours a day. Your back will start to hurt you, your feet and arms will hurt as well. Keep that in mind, I joined for the exercise since I am a seller online I do not move a lot so I thought why pay for gym of fed ex pays me to exercise! Turned out its 100x harder than gym
I work at a FedEx Express hub! I guarantee that pie wouldn't make it! Especially in that box! Maybe MAYBE! if the pie was frozen when shipped, and the handler managed to treat the package nicely! Which i doubt, being we're all rushed it's hard to treat packages with care.
The whole operation is impressive when you look at all the moving parts 4:30 Lawrence knows what’s up: Leave me alone so I can work and don’t get yelled at
I was in Memphis back in the mid 90s for a Transportation conference and was invited to have lunch with Fred Smith, the founder of FEDEX, and some of his staff. Interesting guy and he told us his story of how he got started. Their first sort took place in a building where they drew three circles on the floor. He said the pilot who were working for him were paying for the jet fuel out of their own pockets back then. I bet they are super rich today! Anyway, we got invited to go to the airport and watch the sorting process at 1 in the morning. It was incredible. Watching the long line of planes landing, unloading, packages being sorted, loaded back on plane and off they go.
HAhahahah unreal.. If the camera weren't following, that pie would have gotten crushed and fucked up! They need to show how packages are REALLY handled. lol
+Mr. CamTheMan The main reason any package looks crushed, is not because someone mistreated it. It's because they stacked it wrong. They put a heavy box on top of it. It happens sometimes when you are stacking because you are stacking boxes as fast as you can move, and you don't have time to think hard about where to put "the heavy one." It's like Tetris, except the workers rarely get penalized for crushing a package. They get penalized for being slow however. So how do you THINK they are going to stack a flood of boxes if they literally have less than a second to make a decision on where to stack it?
+Dialectical Monist When most people unload packages they just let the wall of boxes avalanche down to get them to their next destination as fast as possible. Loaded correctly or not one of the hubs are going to mistreat every single box. I know from experience. Doing the work after 6 months and literally just picking up and moving boxes for 8 hours a day makes you not really care anymore about the condition of each one when you carry probably 6,000 packages a day.
+Mr. CamTheMan Its true, I work for a shipping company. shit gets dropped, thrown, stepped on, knocked off conveyor belts, and sometimes heavy boxes are intentionally put on top of light boxes
I worked part-time for FedEx last year for about two months. If there was ever a need for a $15/hr. minimum wage and a union, that would be it. The turnaround was extreme, so we were always understaffed and therefore had to start earlier and earlier in the morning to complete the same amount of work with not enough people before the morning deadline. I could not survive my full-time job on so little sleep and so much physical labor each day, and with the holiday season just ahead, I had to get out of there.
Unions would kill FedEx. Consider what would happen if FedEx couldn't deliver packages for a week, or two weeks. Stock price would nosedive and investors would be screaming bloody murder. Heads would roll. Preferably upper management heads.
So, FedEx should be allowed to keep taking advantage of their hard-working line-level employees just so that they can stay in business? I don't think so. That's why I left. Besides, why would FedEx take a nosedive if they start a union? UPS has a union and they've got a very strong business.
Allan Kennedy unions are for skilled labor, what exact skill is there involved in lifting and sorting packages Any mexican will take your job in a heartbeat if you can't hack it, thats why FedEx doesnt have unions
Allan Kennedy there are a few reasons I can think of, off the top of my head A) because its required by law in most states for employees to join the union B) union dues are $84 a check and your employees HAVE TO PAY THEM TO WORK FOR YOU C) some exec at ups is secretly a double agent for fed ex and is setting ups up for a fall and a huge loss of the market share when their employees do eventually strike
Be sure to always say a real from the heart thank you to all the delivery people . these men and women work extremely hard and long hours to get packages where they're needed to be in a timely fashion.
As somebody who used to work for Fed Ex, I can guarantee you that pie would have been smashed and mashed by the time it reached it's destination if it wasn't for the fact that it was being deliberately babysitted for a news story. Especially during the Christmas rush. Those small packages get tossed onto the same conveyor system as 70 pound boxes with anywhere from TV's to Punching bags to whatever. And they all get crushed and smashed together multiple times before even being loaded onto the trucks where they're tossed and crushed again in a high speed game of Tetris to cram everything in and take up every inch of space. And this happens multiple times over and over before it reaches it's final destination.
That was a good story. I never knew there was so much work in shipping packages, especially during Christmas time. Some people in these comments just want to remember the negative things like dropping, throwing and kicking packages during shipment. I can remember receiving packages from U.S. mail, Fed Ex, and UPS all in one piece. The system must work more often than not because they all are still in business.
They even tell us to take our breaks at the end of the shift and just sit there instead of during the shift. I’m currently seeking legal representation with everyone at our hub facility
Orionar Ranoiro you would think an iphone is more valuable than a pie; therefore my iphone should have arrived on time, but it didn't - whereas a pie did.
JelloVFX - quit How do they know its a iphone 6? Its not on the box and they cant look inside, all fedex does is deliver it...its illegal for them to look inside unless its a concern. Lastly they dont care on how much stuff costs, if you can afford a iphone 6 you can afford express shipping!
PsyQo Jello two things. 1) It depends on when you shipped it and what service you picked. 2)How the heck is the person picking it up supposed to know what you are shipping? LOL.
if anyone thinks those pies don't make it. i guarantee, if packaged properly, even in that little box, the pie would make it intact to its destination. Trust me, i deliver lots of pies intact right to the front door of plenty of homes every Holiday season. I myself wonder how the hell the pies make it even into my truck in perfect shape, but they do! like the video says, unless you are an expert packager, leave the packaging of delicate items to the experts. packaged properly, one of those little FedEx boxes can withstand hundreds of pounds of weight on top of it.
Yup. Most people bitching but the reality is that there are lots of companies that manage to ship fragile things. You just become good at packing them since you are responsible if it's broken anyway.
I got my plant in pieces literally, my acrylic aquarium have dent on it good thing it wasn't a glass, my aquarium filter and light box have a broken boxes that look like a heavy boxes have been put in it...
+marie55 The packages are literally piling up around your shoulders and you would drown if some kind soul didn't stop the belt to dig you out. Stopping the belt is frowned upon, but sometimes you have to do it because packages get stuck on corners, or you flat out need more time because "there's too many of them!" It's like that episode from "I Love Lucky" except instead of chocolates, they are random items filled with anything and everything.
+marie55 Amazon is buying their own freight jets to speed up packages and to lower delivery prices. I wouldn't be surprised if they turned into a mail delivery competitor and completely dropped USPS, UPS, and Fedex unless its a holiday and they're under a lot of load.
Of course they are going to handle them nicely when ABC is filming. My buddy used to work at fedex and he said the drivers would launch packages into their trucks. He even told me that if they were angry enough and they saw a package that said “fragile” they would launch it even harder 😂
Watching this in February 2021 to see what my package is going through during these winter storms. Good to know it's just chilling in a warehouse for a week
Fed Ex is amazing,i live in the UK,on a sunday afternoon i ordered some electrical components from USA froma company called Digikey,and I'm not lying when i say this but they were at my house on Monday afternoon,the next day!,i nealry shit myself with disbelief, the best service ive ever had from any company ever!
I work for FedEx, and it is a crappy company, with terrible rules and regulations, that screw over the contractors, drivers, etc. And yes, packages do get tossed around a bit, as little as possible, and fall off shelves, but that is inevitable. Every company that delivers packages is the same way though. Anyone who works or has worked for FedEx will tell you that they are overworked, and put through way to much stress and pressure.
The company is fine. Quit whining that you had to get off your ass to make a dollar. They do everything they can to make sure employees are safe throughout what could be potentially hazardous conditions, and they offer opportunity within and outside the company, as well as some good benefits. They basically just covered a whole semester of school for me. Maybe you're just lazy.
4:36 the look of pain and despair. He's screaming help him just look at his face. He knows he's got to get back to sorting before the boss gives him a strike
Well of course THAT pie made it without incident. Probably road up front with the pilot. What about my pie, Joe Nobody? Ends up in Hoboken, and it's cherry, when it's supposed to be cheesecake!! And they forgot the whip cream!
I've seen too many lazy postal usps, fedex and ups drivers who lazily toss packages with little care. Should have done this with hidden cameras instead. Fedex is gonna make sure that pie reaches it's destination unharmed.
We need to thank these people it's a hard job with lots of pressure and expectations. And lots of people looking to get them in trouble but yet want there packages delivered on time.
Usps might be cheaper but those packages end up flying with FedEx, they handle 75% of USPS Mail. The contract used to be like 95% but ups cried saying its a monopoly so fedex only delivers 75% of USPS which is still impressive.
I've worked at FedEx Ground and UPS. What they don't show is how ground is processed. Overnight and two day air have a system of their own and are treated very well because they are cash cows to these companies. Ground packages go through a completely different system. If you have something fragile, either pack it to drop on concrete and survive from at least 6 ft in the air or ship via air. Many of the belts these packages travel over are 15 ft off the concrete, so if packages back up on a belt and it does happen more than you think, those boxes make a 15 ft fall to solid concrete. They should try shipping that same pie ground and see how it looks at the end.
4:20 "You will see major tech shipments, you will see medical shipments....." (you will also see boxes literally being crammed on top of each other in no particular fashion, lol !
I’ve worked at ups for a few months now as a package handler and a box that size we would literally play frisbee with. In fact we did that last night.....
I worked at Fed Ex during the Christmas season and let me tell you, if you're going to send Christmas gift, do it weeks or even a month because Christmas, because the Employee are under payed, treated like slaves and they don't care about your priceless gift. Send your gifts early, because during the Christmas rush you will most likely get a ruined gift.
I'm a FedEx Express courier in Ohio. I've picked up pies, frozen pizza, ice cream, bread, cookie bouquets, and many different pastries going all over the world.
+Ellie Avenelle Im looking for FedEx express courier jobs too but it says "courier / tractor-trailer" which makes no sense to me, am i driving a semi? or a Van? And does it require a CDL? Thanks
Couriers who drive a tractor trailer are called heavy weight drivers. They are a courier, just like me, only they drive a semi. They deliver items weighing 151 pounds and heavier. As far as I know, they have to have a CDL-A with a hazardous materials endorsement.
+TH3REDSP1R1T You apply to FedEx as a package handler. They look at who works the hardest / best. Then, if they have an opening, they'll offer you the chance to go through the courier program. You can't just sign up to be a courier right off the bat (that I know of), unless you have experience already. If you want to be a courier, FedEx will give you the fastest opportunity. Unlike UPS, which is union, and has at least a 5 year waiting list to apply for their courier work. I was a package handler for 3-4 months, before I became a courier. That is abnormally fast. I was a bit lucky something became available so soon, but I also impressed them with my package loading.
i was a ups employee im sure it works the same but they are missing the people that load and unload the semi's or flight boxes in the 3 or 4 hubs it has to go through. and the people that load and unload the fexex dilivery trucks.
Thank you for all the hard work 💜 Next time you receive a package from anyone stop and think about the amazing journey it was on up until it reached your door step.
you saw the packages sliding over one another and tumbling about. pie would be rather odd looking after going through fed ex if it wasnt carried all the way by hand.
I worked for both Fed Ex Ground and UPS. Unless you ship it air, don't expect it to survive shipping unless you pack it well enough to drop it 6 ft on to concrete and it survives unscathed.
