Yet you didn't dispute his veracity.
There wasn't any veracity there to dispute.
This isn't a discussion about former contractors are failures and current contractors are successful. It's a discussion about different points of view. Former contractors have a story to tell on their views and experiences and looking to share that. Current contractors share their views on how the model is working for them. Nothing to do with failure. As far as I can tell all the former contractors on here have SUCCESSFULLY left FedEx on their own terms and lived to tell the story that it's not all roses
Well spoken. Fedex is a nationwide carrier and as a result there will be wide variations in delivery environments.
Take for example the company's decision to take back all the Smart Post junk and deliver it themselves while paying a rock bottom rate. Now in the city it might be ok, but how about out in the mountainous rural area? Let me tell you what that's like in winter:
After several miles on an ice covered township dirt road you'll come to a mailbox. Some have numbers, some don't, so now you're guessing. Now 9 times out of 10 that house is either going to be down in a hole or up on a side hill with a dirt lane upwards of a half a mile long and with no catch basins, no cross pipes, no way to control the runoff it too is nothing but ice. Being that Ground is a doorstep carrier there's no leaving it out at the end of the road. You could try but you're going to hear about it and unless you've got a Quigley or a deuce and a half there's no use trying to drive it unless you want to spend the rest of the day stuck back in there.So what do you do? Well, you pick that crate up and start hiking it up that frozen ice covered turkey path falling down half a dozen times along the way. As a contractor you're paying and insuring a guy to spend most if not all day lugging around a box that pays what a .....$1.90 ? ....And more importantly given that you're paying a guy half the wages of his counterparts at the other carriers and zero benefits, how long do you think he's going to put up with it?
In snow belt rural America, this scenario is the rule not the exception and given that contractor profits are based on production , from my standpoint given my age, the time it would take to be surgically overhauled and modest profit potential expansion into multiple routes was a headache I didn't need.
Critically short on manpower the contractor/administrators at my station are calling me wanting to help get them out of the mess they're in. My response: "You wanted in there badly enough.More boxes requires more slave labor. Not my fault you ran out it".
