It’s true. They recently merged fedex express and fedex ground. They call it fedex one. Fedex ground was all contractor delivery where express drivers were all employees. Most of the contractor pay is basically
. My understanding is that their goal with fedex one is to go entirely the contractor route. To me means it won’t get any better. Amazon has really given these companies (at least parcel divisions) a giant kick in the 
s taking a huge chunk of the pie. 
My kid also worked for them and is not a fan. He was a dog handler and had one of the more gravey jobs but still hated every minute of his life while at work. They were going to restructure/ move to a sub-contractual arrangement w his employment scheme too, so he decided to move on.It’s true. They recently merged fedex express and fedex ground. They call it fedex one. Fedex ground was all contractor delivery where express drivers were all employees. Most of the contractor pay is basically
I work for fedex but nothing to do with parcel delivery. Just things I’ve heard through the grapevine.
At least you got the notice - I typically have them just drive by and not try, but they do put the mail in the box (I almost never put outgoing mail in the box as I no longer trust it - that gets dropped off directly at the post office).
They leave the notice in the mailbox now. A few years ago it would be stuck to my door if i missed a delivery attempt, but he doesn’t get out of his truck anymore.
I think a lot of that depends upon your location and the delivery personnel. Our USPS delivery lady is great. Packages that do not fit the streetside mailbox, she brings to the front door and leaves them on our porch swing. A little over a week ago it was an airgun broken down, in a box about 48" long and 10" on both short sides. Fed ex always leaves on front porch and UPS also. I have had in the past UPS give an notice via email that they could not deliver because no one home to receive package, when I was sitting home awaiting delivery. THat was in Nov-Dec holiday season and I think drivers just did not want to make short trip out of town to our area late. I can understand them not wanting to be out late, but why LIE about it
Well I heard your stories haaa… item no longer in NY.
Been there - your package will now be in the "exception system" since it was misdelivered. Odds are that you will get it, but they might even not update the tracking system and will just show up at some point. Went through that a few months back, and spoke to the post office it was misdelivered to since it looked like it was there for over a week and they explained it to me - even sent me a screenshot of their internal system that showed it having been sent back out but no updates ever were made to the tracking data I could see until I randomly got an "out for delivery" notification . . .
Our mail man is great. Our house is a half mile down a private lane from the mail box. If we have a package he brings it to the door. Wish all were that competent.
UPS guys that get to the position of route driver at least get compensated pretty good. I’m talking middle class blue collar just like me . Saying that they are under a surveillance gun at all times. Usually have to go years maybe before getting big brown truck working in a hub . The hub part certainly has automated since I did 2 Christmas seasons in the late 70s .Just to be clear, I don't have issues with the drivers for any of the 3 services. We have the same regular drivers from each and all three are friendly and cordial. We are on first name basis with the drivers from UPS and USPS. They complain about their employers as much as we do.
Don't shoot the messenger..
