Fed ex used to bring the stuff I ordered to my front doorstep and not ring the door bell. For the last two orders they delivered, they didn't even make it the front doorstep--they deposited it the orders in front of my garage. (I guess because it is an attached garage and the orders were, after all, from Rockauto.)
I'm trusting FedEx/ UPS less by the day
Many of the people working these high demand jobs in the shipping industry were already hating it before the pandemic and what not. Now I think many simply dont care one bit. Then you throw huge "fragile" and "do not drop" stickers on the box with a nice big beautiful picture advertisement of the component/ speaker on the outside box for everyone to see and its almost goading them to mess with it.
Recently bought a subwoofer and there was a hole/dent in the box so deep it penetrated through the 2nd interior box. Obviously this was dropped from some distance. Not too mention the fact that the UPS driver just flopped the box off the dolly causing it to roll forward on to its other side. Right in front of me. No apology or anything, just handed me the sign pad and acted like it was nothing. And that's how it's being treated in front of the customer I can't imagine what goes down in these warehouses.
Ok end of rant 🙂