Having worked at FedEx, everything has fragile stickers and “this way up” arrows.

[neatobuilds@mander.xyz]

You fill your own truck?

[flax_vert@feddit.uk]

Gonna fedex a big plastic box of diarrhoea with a cardboard lid and “this way up” painted correctly. You’ll never turn my packages upside-down again.

[thebat@lemmy.world]

Is that a euphemism?

[jonathanvmv8f@lemm.ee]

May I dare ask who you would be delivering this to?

[toynbee@lemmy.world]

Can’t speak with authority, but presumably FedEx employs packers and drivers; this person was probably speaking as a packer and referring to the truck they’re packing as “the truck.”

[flax_vert@feddit.uk]

Good question. Myself, probably.

[signtist@lemm.ee]

I never delivered packages, I only loaded them on the trucks. I’d usually be assigned 3-4 trucks depending on package load and how many people decided to show up that day.

[flocklesscrow@lemm.ee]

Don’t forget the biohazard stickers

[signtist@lemm.ee]

It would’ve spilled long before it got to me and the local delivery trucks I’d be loading. We’d be unpacking large cross-country semis that were packed so haphazardly that unofficial protocol was to open them and run; one time I almost had a car jack land on my head that someone decided to shove in on top of a stack of boxes.

[neatobuilds@mander.xyz]

Ah gotcha, my cousin worked for ups and loaded trucks also, making the drivers mad all the time haha

[signtist@lemm.ee]

Yeah, they’re always mad about something. They’ll look at their trucks packed to the brim with boxes and wonder why we didn’t put each and every package in the exact correct location. We’d do our best, but by the end of the day we’d just be putting them wherever they’d fit.

[spookex@lemmy.world]

Can confirm the semi thing, worked for a national post carrier for few months and sometimes had to help load and unload trucks for international shipments.

It would basically be us playing Tetris with the packages until about chest level, then someone would have to climb on top of that stack to fill it up to the ceiling. The smaller stuff and mail bags just get yeeted into whatever gap that exists.

Even after all that, there wouldn’t be much space left, so package your stuff well I guess