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!!
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
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..?
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.
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.
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.
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
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"
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 ...
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?
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 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.
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 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.
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
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
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
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...
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.
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
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.
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 😂
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.
I recently started work for UPS as a package sorter and have thought this exact thing. I always wonder how many thousands of dollars worth of drugs and sex toys I have handled at the end of a shift.
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
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.
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.
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'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.
+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.
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.
I work for Fedex and i have no clue how it made it there in one piece at my hub that would be crushed and mangled and thrown and kicked around and machines throw it around for sorting . You have to move way to fast to care for every box and softly set them all down with the tight dead lines youd be waiting a week longer if they all were cared for carefully
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.
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.
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 !
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 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 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.
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 shipped 'FedEx International Next Flight' to Australia and had it arrive next day... usually 3 days at most. Even 'International Economy' only takes a week or so, assuming it's to one of the metropolitan areas. But Australian customs kind-of sucks; almost all of the times I've had delays have been due to customs holding up the package for no good reason.
I've once had a textbook shipped from USA to NZ in 1 day. I was like holy shit that was quick. Like legit I buy the book at night and it arrives two days later in the morning.
I worked for fedex ground for a short time out of San Antonio, these guys are bunch of slave drivers. They treat their employees like sh&t. Turning off the water fountain so they could not get any drinking water, telling them they need to go back to work. People would go to the bathroom and never return, horrible.
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 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!!
This is FedEx. There's a difference.
Haha, that's funny!
notice they didn't put it through the "Matrix" lol
hup2thepenguin Hell yeah, there is.
Had a friend that worked at both places at the same time. Trust me, no
Difference, except UPS pays more in the long run.
Cameras rolling, keep the package throwing and kicking to a minimum.
Hahaha
Hahah your profile pic matches perfectly.
I think you can tell whether or not the package was abused or not. It's called dents.
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
Holy shit, that was sooo rehearsed! "I carefully place the pie in my truck"
Did you got box with shit from Holy man of all time from 2,000 years ago
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
all that work just for some asshole to drop it in front of the door...
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
That pie would have been toast without a camera crew to babysit it all the way.
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
Its actually pretty cool all the stuff we ship. Bread and snack cakes for stores, all sorts of shit. It's good.
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..?
FedEx ground took the same amount of time to be shipped (sometimes faster) but when its get delivered it only took 2 days
mr unstopabull I work at FedEx and if that box came near me that shit would be shredded
You forgot to show the parts where the boxes were kicked around
jjjjjjjjjj Funny
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.
+Trainfan1055 obviously not strict enough
Want to know a secret folks ? EVERY package in EVERY warehouse is thrown around to some degree.
RellyAlexander that’s true I’ve been working at ups as a package handler for Almost a year now it will get thrown around at least once or twice
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.
@@nicolasbrown303 i work at Fed Ex. The drivers loading there trucks throw the packages more then the package handlers do
Of course its December and I bought an oculus.... and of course its FedEx
They better not throw away my exo terra terrarium
... and then it gets drop kicked 80 yards in to your front porch by the delivery dude.
Mubble Mann what kind of front yard is 80 yards
Chris Gayler lmfao
@@Mr4thQuarterHD a rural one. Instead of a speedy delivery you get a hail mary
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.
lmao
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.
Happens here too in the UK, my parcel had a foot print on it.. straight back to place I brought it from!
haha and in germany...
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
Wow that really could have done some demage
Must be how UPS lost my Galaxy s7 i ordered from best buy.
You know that pie is not going to survive if it goes through the normal process.
Took the words right out of my mouth, complete crap!!
lol
Yeah, see the way the guy takes it from the plane himself instead of the normal procedure
Dents all over the box trust me when i unload i see dents all over the boxes lol
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Plot twist: There were drugs hidden in the pie. You just witnessed a drug smuggling
...on TV
DSM Fanny No ever heard of hiding in the open? It was the perfect scheme to do it on tv. Geniuses
DSM Fanny calling me a dumbass without understanding the joke...
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"
JisINSANE3 Plot twist: Wilson 2000 is sentient
i cried seeing the world economy pass through my eyes..
+Vasav Chawla I farted.
I pooped
I cried when I realized that the US economy is 70% consumption.
LegendMeadow, the economy is money, money is the economy.
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
...
Lol Lawrence was like "get the fuck out my face, im trying to work".
😂
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!
imagine buying a 12.99 pie and the shipping fee is 49.99.
Imagine you cannot get one pie like that for under 62.98.
@Brady Hartsfield just imagine even buying food on the internet??
JUST BUY A PIE IN YOUR LOCAL STORE I MEAN COME ON PEOPLE MOVE YOUR ASSES
@@Jomuerudoumandanberarumino YOU made me laugh so hard it hurts!
Overnight shipping from the East Coast to Hawaii costs several hundred dollars even for that express box size
I’m a FedEx driver. Take pride in my job. Love it. Especially the people I meet. Thank you all for using us
BS! You guys are miserable cunts. Fedex only pride on damaging customers packages.
get a package delivered on time and undamaged and i'll give you respect. Its like police, a few bad apples makes the rest of you look bad.
@@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?
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.
+agsparklekat As a driver at FedEx, thank you for the respect! I hope you get that phone asap.
Why don't pie eaters try to reduce their carbon footprint by making their own damn pies.
why don't you get a life, or maybe go play with Al Gore
Jim Calhoun Jimmy Geez, don't you have a sense of humor?
goosmooby That's why UA-cam comments are one of the scariest places on Earth..you just never know what you're gonna get.
lol
Why take the bread off all those workers plates.
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.
Incorrect. I can ship something out by 5p.m. everyday via FedEx and have it in Hawaii the next day. I ship with FedEx everyday all across the world.
She ships out like 10 pies daily, you really think people would be ordering them if they got broken in transit? Dumbass
Yeah riiight. I'd like to see it get handled the normal way and see if it comes to its destination in one piece.
no pun intended ;)
Food shipments are handled differently and don't go through sorting conveyors. Don't think the news ever tells the truth.
Hazmats, oversize, and small packages are the only ones that will generally not go through an automated sorter.
True. I checked the Fedex site and they made no mention to food.
:D
I like how they "chose" to carry it by hand past the giant pile of packages all mashed together in too little space...
That’s crazy how the woman at the end seemed so Stress free and calm & Loving life compared to the worn out FEDEX employees
cause theyre not doing labour
She's a woman
Lol, if it was shipped normaly with FEDEX, it would arrive in 87 pieces..
lol
I had them manage to break an AGM battery once which is a pretty durable item.
I think 2:50 answers how they managed this feat.
I like to think in that way:
it would arrive in 87 PIEces
Food typically doesn't make it through FedEx in my experience. For large wood crates, I usually go through a specialized service.
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 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.
+John Jesus OK I'm gonna do an experiment.
tohopes LOL don't send it through my station
"Lawrence" was my fav... seems like a super hard worker.
I think FedEx should give him a big ol' salary raise!!
I like to imagine Lawrence personally sorts everything I've ever gotten through fedex.
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
How do you apply for it??? Need a job and a great workout.
+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
+John Siliga this job is hardly worth it, working your ass off with the unrealistic expectatons for 10 hours and get paid pocket change
+Doddery Where do you work?
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.
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
Ian Hanners: That's is simply false. Otherwise, why would UPS have a union?
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
If they weren't being fillmed that pie would be in 84747484783 peices
Shadi Nachat we know you work there me too you not lieing tho
How many pieces?!
No 3.14 peices
Ines Tovar
Lying*
Shadi Nachat Easier for sharing. Nearly 59,264 pieces for every person in Hawaii.
I got a UPS ad
Awesomer9000 same
I use adblock. I did not get an ad.
I have youtube red and adblock. Ads don't stand a chance. Tho, in retrospect that whole video was a fedex ad.
Adblock is for people with no patience
ups YOUR ass
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 love when people write "Fragile" on the box as if that's supposed to matter LOL
Haha foreal
+Joose Here's some other things they are writng on the box: 'Please don't steal. It's just food.' 'Please don't steal. It's just girl stuff.'
Usually notice that when it’s midair
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.
You’re ignorant 90% come damaged during peak.
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
Who’s watching this when Christmas is almost here in 2019
Airport James same lmao
I work at FedEx in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and that makes our Christmas rush look like a cakewalk
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...
wow, I must have been blessed with no sight
First 5 minutes long ad ever watched on youtube
I have seen 40 minute ads
i have seen a 1 hour and 30 mins ad before
I have seen 1 hour and 31 minute ads before
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.
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 Seriously. Without that camera that pie would of arrived looking like a shit hole.
+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
+Kevin C Yep, nothing is worse for Christmas than a pie that looks like it's been fucked by a horse.
That was a good episode. Cool how they pieced it together.
Wow that's A LOT of boxes........ Never knew this is how shipping works
Shout out to the mechanics that maintain the Planes, trucks, conveyor belts, and any other machinery and vehicles.
WOW..I want to Thank Everyone for what they do to help get our packages shipped to us and from us. MUCH appreciation!!!👏👏👏
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.
All of those boxes crashing against each other at 4:22 is exactly why my package gets damaged in the shipping process.
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 😂
That one guy kept it to real, like i got no time to talk to you.
I will never complain about how long my package takes to get to my house again
Yeah Lawrence works his ass off and gets paid pennies
Meanwhile, delivery peolle are throwing boxes and breaking them and getting paid almost doubleminimum wage
If he dosent like it why has he worked there so long then.....3 years later I bet hes still there.
I am a new Package Handler at FedEx in Greensboro, NC and we are under our peak season too. So, I get it.
Fucking impressive. I have friends that work for UPS & USPS. I'm so proud of the work they do.
they sent a pie from the east coast to hawaii in 24 hours but they couldnt send me my iphone6 from texas to las vegas, nevada in 48. LOL
Of course they didn't. You didn't pay to have it shipped in 24 hours. I don't get what's so funny.
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.
You didnt PAY for premium guaranteed overnight shipping is why
man if you only knew how fast we throw them boxes and and kick those jams jams apart during peak season....
What an amazing put together video. Those Packet hubs are amazing. Love them!
i enjoyed this documentary
How many of those boxes have sex toys in them?
Roughly 99%
lol
meRyanP If there are any with sex toys they're not working after the stress of transit lol
I recently started work for UPS as a package sorter and have thought this exact thing. I always wonder how many thousands of dollars worth of drugs and sex toys I have handled at the end of a shift.
meRyanP lmfao 69 like I’m not liking it keep at 69
this is why packaging is very important. Why when you order something small on amazon it comes in a huge box, mostly padding.
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
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.
that's so cool man...this pie get's tracked and carried better than my "highly breakable" package which came totally broken...whoa...
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.
I wouldn't say it's a crappy company. But I agree it is stressful
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.
China's courier company is even crazier.
A carefully placed poke from a hypodermic needle and everyone eating that lovely pie is taking a nap!
My irrational fear of eating shipped foods.
You forgot the part when they beat the packages with sledgehammers
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.
holy fuck when i buy stuff off ebay from China, it must go through like 40 people.
just like your ass
jonathan hernandez 17,2 cm ;)
LOL WTF!!
When I buy stuff from China it's typically here the next day and leaving me thinking, "HOW!?"
That’s a professional smile from Diane
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.
I work at Amazon, so, I can certainly appreciate how hard Fed Ex's employees work during the Holiday Season!
+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.
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.
I work for Fedex and i have no clue how it made it there in one piece at my hub that would be crushed and mangled and thrown and kicked around and machines throw it around for sorting . You have to move way to fast to care for every box and softly set them all down with the tight dead lines youd be waiting a week longer if they all were cared for carefully
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.
prolly even more boxes now 3 years later
👀... You aren't wrong 😭😭
Our small satellite in the northwest of Indianapolis and we processed almost 80k in one night also
Peak Season Fedex is a goodtime to get a free workout and a nice weekly paycheck by working as a package handler.
brought tears to my eyes. Good story. well done.
That one guy kept it to real, he's like i don't got time for this.
what a waste of shipping cost just for a pie
indeed. could've bought that fresh from a bakery there..
it was to show how Fedex ships things.
Not if its stuffed with cocaine!
Um excuse me, have you ever tasted a pie?
tv and ad revenue from making this video covers the shipping cost 1000 times over
5 years at fedex, this is actually "nothing" you should see how your packages are treated in the sorting centers
Amazing they have been doing this for years and years, nobody blinks and eye!
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.
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 !
2:54 look at the box! It must been smash couple of times. I don't think the pie can make it, if their are not filming a show about it.
xi chen I
A shit packaging job.
xi chen true
Plastic bands on a very light weight box
@@tlangelo spot on!
I’m a proud FedEx Employee.....Amazed at how the process works!!
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 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.
why not just buy the pie locally. Save money and help the local economy. What a waste of resources to send a pie oversees.
^That is exactly what I was thinking.
It's an experiment.
Jeremy Medlock it is lol
@Jeremy Medlock I dont think you know where Hawaii located...
@@saintdof the definition of overseas is "in or to a foreign country, especially one across the sea."
it is not what it literally means
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.
What a great story.. I worked at an Airport years ago.. This is amazing now...
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.
heck i have seen ups freight on fedex aircraft, its all interconnected
Stonehill Raod 47 Essex Leigh on sea England and Postman Celestron Telescope NexStar from Melville Nkalubo
yet it takes a month to get anything from the US to Australia.
I've shipped 'FedEx International Next Flight' to Australia and had it arrive next day... usually 3 days at most. Even 'International Economy' only takes a week or so, assuming it's to one of the metropolitan areas. But Australian customs kind-of sucks; almost all of the times I've had delays have been due to customs holding up the package for no good reason.
Charlie Foxtrot Yeah I'm rural, 600+km in land.
Jacob Ellis yoldsong
I've once had a textbook shipped from USA to NZ in 1 day. I was like holy shit that was quick. Like legit I buy the book at night and it arrives two days later in the morning.
Jacob Ellis 5-6 weeks to Suriname
"best to leave the packages to the proffesionals"
If you think that Pie is making it through peak season intact you’re crazy
"In giving you that cream pie"
I worked for fedex ground for a short time out of San Antonio, these guys are bunch of slave drivers. They treat their employees like sh&t. Turning off the water fountain so they could not get any drinking water, telling them they need to go back to work. People would go to the bathroom and never return, horrible.
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
Man, I wish I could send my search history through FedEx
And that is why a Pie cost more than $300 bucks!
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!
What the hell are you talking about
that pie would have been damaged or eaten at the hub i was at lmao damn
was put together nicely
great story! we need more stuff like this on the news imo.