Olathe, KS is the new black shit hole for fedex deliveries going to mid-...
4Three items have taken a week or longer to be transported from Olathe, KS (where ever in the hell that is) to Martinsburg, WV-a little over 900 miles. One item just got there after 7 days in transit and now has “Delivery exception”. WTF is going on?
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Olathe is a suburb of Kansas City, and FedEx has a big regional hub there. For the past several years, I have noticed an increasing number of incidents that look like them misplacing incoming trailers full of parcels and just forgetting about them for anywhere from several days to several weeks. Occasionally, one of those trailers appears to escape to some other hub, and then all sorts of things can go wrong. This is not the only place that FedEx Ground seems to have lost its reliability. Several months back, a pair of parcels I shipped to Michigan got stuck here at the Houston hub for several days, for no apparent reason.
So it’s not just me that feels FedEx has really gone downhill lately?
@blaineg Ground, yes. They say that the problem is that parcel volumes are high and wildly variable, sometimes beyond their capacity to deliver on time.
See for me, it seems somewhere between GA and VA is the blackhole for fedex. So maanyyy delivery exceptions in the last month.
@mikibell That is where the major problem is-to my son and granddaughter in Centreville, VA.
I thought it was the Kansas City Distribution Center for the post office. That’s where I see stuff sit for weeks and weeks and weeks and…
@sunnysideup22 My dad used to say: Don’t complain about the cost of postage, it’s still only a penny a day.
Just replace “Alabama” with “Olathe” in this article & you might have your answer
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/01/1060507288/fedex-delivery-dumped-ravine-alabama
@ircon96 Many FedEx Ground delivery drivers are not actual FedEx employees; the original operational paradigm that FedEx used was to have all delivery territories owned by private contractors, a system that FedEx acquired from RPE when they bought out that company from Roadway to creat FedEx Ground. Vestiges of it remain in play, with large portions of the FedEx Ground deliveries still being handled by contractor drivers, but most of the old single-driver territories have been homologated together into large blocs under a larger contractor that hires and fires drivers. Exceptions exist, and a friend of mine lives in one of the old one-driver areas. The service there sucks even more than usual.
@werehatrack Hmm, i wonder if the drivers that passive-aggressively refuse to walk the 2 extra steps to put my packages under my gate roof instead of just barely outside the drip edge are the regular sucky ones or the extra sucky?
