Life is hard, but unfortunately, people sometimes just like to make things a little harder. This can be said about a FedEx driver in Mississippi, who decided that taking a customer’s package to his door, let alone his home, was way too much trouble. Instead, the courier left the box leaning on a tree quite a ways from the house by the street. If that’s not a way to easily get reported or flagged with a complaint, it’s hard to know what is. And the customer was none too pleased with this driver’s inability to take his delivery to the front door.
This wasn’t the first time this happened to this Mississippi resident, either. “First time was behind my trash can at the street the night before trash pick up!” he recalled. “This cannot be acceptable.” The first driver did take a picture showing where the package could be picked up, but the one who left it on a tree didn’t even bother to inform the recipient. Fortunately, the customer knew it had to be somewhere down the road near the street, which is where it ended up being.
“We are talking about $1000 worth of electronics between the two incidents,” the man remarks, concerned that the next package could possibly get damaged or worse, stolen. He claims that he isn’t simply an ‘angry male Karen’ looking to make trouble either. “I’m the customer that leaves water and snacks when it’s hot out and gift cards around Christmas,” he argues, but the treatment he gets in return from FedEx really makes being nice a challenge.
The man vented his frustration on r/FedEx, where multiple people chimed in the comments, defending the driver’s behavior. Some say it’s fine to drop the package off within the vicinity of the property, wherever that might be. A few others claim the dirt driveway is too long and “creepy” to reach the house. However, the fact that the FedEx driver works in the neighborhood clearly means he should be used to these sorts of rural homes, so the ‘it’s too scary’ argument is invalid.
Fortunately, a few commenters did understand why the customer was upset, considering the FedEx driver was at fault here. “That is totally unacceptable!” exclaims a person. “Lazy driver in this case it seems like,” remarks another individual. Regardless of the reason, the courier didn’t do their job, and the customer seems just about fed up with FedEx.
