# And the "I really don't give a F\*ck award" goes to: **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 9, 2004, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878 "2004-11-09T19:16:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878/21 "2004-11-10T14:43:24Z")
A disgruntled postal employee? Hide! ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878/22 "2004-11-10T18:05:19Z")
> [@Greywolf73](#): > > And if you happen to have a box that’s too big to fit in the mailbox, you might get the Grumpy Mailman stare of Death when he has to actually get out of his nice, warm car to deliver it to you. YOUR MAILMAN DELIVERS PACKAGES TO YOUR DOOR?!?!?!?!?! I have NEVER had a mailman deliver packages to my door. If it’s too big for the mailbox, they leave a slip telling me I had a package, and I have to go to the post office and pick it up the next day (not the SAME DAY, because he carries the box around in his truck ALL DAMN DAY so it’s not available to me for an additional 24 hours). ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878/23 "2004-11-10T18:22:53Z")
Wow. Your Fed-Ex guy definitely won the contest\*. \*“Winning the Contest” refers to an in joke my ex and I created, where we would get really stoned and go out on the town to run errands, etc. Usually the store clerks we would encounter would be ten times more addled, confused and slow than we were, no matter how much pot we smoked before leaving the house. We decided that each day was a contest to see who could be the most stoned, so now whenever I am confronted with extreme stupidity, I refer to that person as having “won the contest.” ---
**Author:** ![tofergregg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tofergregg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tofergregg)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878/24 "2004-12-01T18:26:15Z")
Maybe your delivery man was one of those 60,000 white collar workers FedEx hires for only four months a year. This just proves that they need to hire more blue collar workers for jobs like this. 😉 -Tofer ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878/25 "2004-12-01T18:43:29Z")
If I’m home my mail carrier brings my packages to my door too. If I’m not…he leaves it on my deck under the table. He always has. ---
**Author:** ![Sat\_on\_Cookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71c47a/32.png) [@Sat\_on\_Cookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sat_on_Cookie)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878/26 "2004-12-01T18:44:52Z")
All this priority shipping talk reminds me of a little story (probably better suited for a Too Stupid to Live thread, but what the heck). Back when I was a wee working lass (around '89), I had to send an important letter via express mail, which I had never done before. Apparently, I _had_ seen commercials, however. So, I trotted down to the post office, waited in line, plunked the brown envelope on the counter and told the clerk I wanted to FedEx it. “Huh?” he said. “You know, FedEx-, Airborne-, UPS- it,” I said, having absolutely no clue they were separate companies and didn’t operate out of the post office. “Uh, those are the other guys,” he said. “Huh?” I said. Not only that, but if memory serves correctly, I think I attempted to “correct” him with a superior, you-don’t-know-what-you’re-talking-about attitude. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878/27 "2004-12-01T18:50:01Z")
> [@Sat on Cookie](#): > > “Uh, those are the other guys,” he said. > > “Huh?” I said. > > Not only that, but if memory serves correctly, I think I attempted to “correct” him with a superior, you-don’t-know-what-you’re-talking-about attitude. :smack: My husband is a postal worker and regularly gets people who try to give him UPS packages to return because they don’t want the shipped item. Trust me, apparently **lots** of people are confused about this whole USPS vs. UPS thing. And it doesn’t help “brand confusion” matters that these days, (IIRC) the US post offices are required to have a FedEx drop box out front. ---
**Author:** ![Pez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5e9695/32.png) [@Pez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pez)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878/28 "2004-12-01T22:08:40Z")
Back in the good ol’ times the postman always rang twice… ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878/29 "2004-12-01T22:16:36Z")
> [@The Devil's Grandmother](#): > > If people that dumb have jobs why the hell am I still unemployed? My theory is that if only competent people had jobs, the work would get done with much fewer people and there would be much more unemployment. The Government mandates that a certain percentage of every workforce must be incompetent to keep the economy going. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878/30 "2004-12-01T22:40:11Z")
> [@The Devil's Grandmother](#): > > If people that dumb have jobs why the hell am I still unemployed? Because you’re in the Blue Bin. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878/31 "2004-12-01T22:53:13Z")
I’m in the blue bin Waiting in the blue bin And I’m sitting here in the blue bin Well, it’s a long, long journey To cubical city It’s a long, long wait While I’m sitting in jimmies But I know I’ll have a job some day At least I hope and pray that I will But today I’m in the blue bin. Desperate apologies to the writers of Schoolhouse Rock ---
**Author:** ![RitzyRae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@RitzyRae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitzyRae)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878/32 "2004-12-01T23:04:52Z")
I order an item and ship it to my place of business. We are not open Saturdays. We are very, very large with an itty-bitty post office, which is also not open Saturdays. This should be repeatedly noticeable in the extreme. However, dear little FedEx, and only FedEx so far, insists on attempting to deliver my item every time a Saturday rolls around. Every time I open my little delivery schedule on-line and I see that FedEx has tried to deliver it on a Saturday, but oh-no the business was closed. _Again…_. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878/33 "2004-12-02T00:11:21Z")
> [@Odinoneeye](#): > > My theory is that if only competent people had jobs, the work would get done with much fewer people and there would be much more unemployment. > > The Government mandates that a certain percentage of every workforce must be incompetent to keep the economy going. Apparently the electorate also believes in this theory… ---
**Author:** ![Shrinking\_Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Shrinking\_Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shrinking_Violet)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878/34 "2004-12-02T00:36:39Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > When it absolutely, positively has to be their oversight. ::applause:: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878/35 "2004-12-02T00:36:48Z")
I’m thinking this is where Dory from Finding Nemo got to once the movie was over. ---
**Author:** ![Tragically\_Dip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Tragically\_Dip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tragically_Dip)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878/36 "2004-12-02T01:34:49Z")
> [@](#): > > I order an item and ship it to my place of business. We are not open Saturdays. We are very, very large with an itty-bitty post office, which is also not open Saturdays. This should be repeatedly noticeable in the extreme. However, dear little FedEx, and only FedEx so far, insists on attempting to deliver my item every time a Saturday rolls around. Fed Ex Home Delivery delivers Tuesday-Saturday as a convienence to residential customers. Many retailers use HD by default because they see most of their shipments going to homes, and the price structure is different. Your item is being sent to your business, and there is a 20% chance it will go out for delivery on Saturday. Yes, the business name should be repeatedly noticable. But on a manifest of 150 addresses, 5 days per week, it may get overlooked until they are on the street. This is important- **a driver does not get fully paid for a failed delivery attempt**. We don’t enjoy bringing packages back to the terminal any more than you. We are responsible for meeting certain service requirements or it is directly reflected in our paycheck week to week. Not a lot of occupations are like that. I love my job and I am proud of my company, but remember, there are knuckleheads in every line of work. ---
**Author:** ![Tio\_Gringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Tio\_Gringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tio_Gringo)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878/37 "2004-12-02T03:33:33Z")
> [@Dijon Warlock](#): > > I had Fed-Ex leave a package outside my door once. > > In 1960. > > For 20 minutes. > > It was my 1960s style death ray. > > _d&r_ …not many people know that. ---
**Author:** ![Kiminy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Kiminy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiminy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878/38 "2004-12-02T04:04:23Z")
> [@racinchikki](#): > > YOUR MAILMAN DELIVERS PACKAGES TO YOUR DOOR?!?!?!?!?! > > I have NEVER had a mailman deliver packages to my door. If it’s too big for the mailbox, they leave a slip telling me I had a package, and I have to go to the post office and pick it up the next day (not the SAME DAY, because he carries the box around in his truck ALL DAMN DAY so it’s not available to me for an additional 24 hours). Our mail carrier leaves largish packages in a large plastic bag hanging off the mailbox. If it’s too large for the plastic bag, then he/she will carry it to the front door, but that’s pretty rare. I hate having a large, white plastic bag hanging from my mailbox announcing to everyone who passes that we have a box of valuable stuff waiting to go inside. We have no problems with FedEx here. We don’t have a garage, so the front door is pretty much the only place to leave stuff. The UPS delivery people are GREAT, though. We got to know the first one so well that he would actually stop and chat if I saw him in the grocery store, and he remembered both our kids names. The new one (a woman) actually leaves packages _under_ the rubber door mat if it’s raining outside when she drops it off. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878/39 "2004-12-02T12:57:19Z")
Our UPS guy is very nice. He lets our dog jump in his truck and allows her to sit there thinking she is going for a ride. He brings her cookies. My mail lady, OTOH, if I have a package that is too big for the mailbox, does a drive by in our circle drive and wings it out in the general direction of our house. I yelled at her as she drove off for doing this and didn’t get a response. It was years later ( and still holding a grudge on it) that I discovered she is deaf. ---
**Author:** ![RitzyRae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@RitzyRae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitzyRae)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878/40 "2004-12-02T14:47:33Z")
> [@Tragically Dip](#): > > I love my job and I am proud of my company, but remember, there are knuckleheads in every line of work. I’m sure they are lovey people. I’m just sorry they have to keep going up there every time. I just imagine it is probably a slew of the same drivers thinking “Well, here I am again…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-i-really-dont-give-a-f-ck-award-goes-to/273878.md?page=3)