So, my wife is pregnant. We've had problems in the past (several miscarriages) and she is on some medication that helps keep her estrogen up to insure we don't lose another one.
The meds come from out of state, and the doc ordered this batch to be delivered between 8-10am this morning, because she would have run out.

My wife heads to the doc and I'm staying home to get the package. I'm in the bathroom wearing zip, nada and brushing my teeth/getting ready when the doorbell rings. I know what it probably is, because nobody rings our doorbell at 8:30 on a Monday when (usually) neither of us are here. I quickly grab a blanket off the bed and wrap myself in it. (Classy, I know, but I was in a hurry.)

By the time I get the door open there's a tag on it and he's gone. I look down the street and he's still parked there. Whew, I think. Thank God.
I stand there for awhile on the porch, because I figure he's at the neighbors and I can't see him in the truck. A couple of minutes go by and he comes out from the back of the truck and fires up the engine, so I run up waving the slip at him. He goes in back and grabs the package. I say, "I'm glad I caught you. Thanks.".

He hands me the machine to sign for the package, and says "I rang the doorbell twice.". Well, I know for a fact that he just rung the bell and ran, because the bathroom is right next to the bell and I heard it loud and clear, and he was already in the truck before I got out there. No big deal, but I decide to say, "No, it only rung once.". He says, "Don't tell me how to do my job, I've been doing it for 20 years." Well, I wasn't telling him anything of the sort, but whatever. So I just figure the dude is having a bad day and shrug.

I hand him back his signature machine, "He says what was your name sir?, "Vault_Boy", I answer. He takes the sticky tag from me and then he turns around and throws the package in the truck.

I think WTF?, and figure he just had a brain fart, so I say, "Wait, my package.". He says, "It's not your package until I decide to give it to you. You can pick it up tonight. You shouldn't have been an asshole." and gets in the drivers seat. I wasn't an asshole. I just contradicted him when he decided to feed me an unsolicited line of bullshit, but I thought that was nothing much and didn't even think it bothered him.

Now I'm a little baffled, worried, and not sure what to do. So I stick my leg and arm in his truck and tell him that that is my wife's medication and she HAS to have it in a couple of hours. He starts screaming at me, "You're hijacking my truck!". Holy shit. "I say, I'm not hijacking anything, just give me my package. I already signed for it!". He says he's going to call the police. Well, that sounds like a good idea to me, since I'm not sure what the hell to do, and I'm afraid to just grab the package because I'm not sure whether that will get me arrested or what.

So he starts trying to slam the door on me, and is kicking me in the leg and prying on my hands. I'm still freaking shocked. "I say, dude, you're a psycho. Just give me the package!". He kicks harder. He's an out of shape black guy, probably about my age or so (40) but a couple of inches shorter and his shoving/kicking/slamming/prying aren't having much effect. He's still screaming that I'm hijacking his truck, and he's going to call the police, but he doesn't do it and I really am wishing he would. This is freaking embarrassing.

Right about then my wife pulls up. I quickly explain what's happening, and the pregnant woman Wrath of God beams shoot out of her eyes, setting the tires on his truck on fire. Well, I made the part about the beams setting his truck on fire up, but she comes over and gets in the truck and, um, tells me to go inside and put some clothes on. While I'm inside both my wife and the crazy FedEx guy call the cops.

5 cars show up. Oh God, please don't let any neighbors be home and seeing this. They come over and quickly realize that neither of us are truck hijackers, and ask what happened, so I give about a 5 second explanation and they go to talk to him, shaking their heads and smirking. I'm sure this is not going to be the highlight of their day, but I'm glad they see the humor in it instead of going all out with guns drawn. I can hear the crazy FedEx guy lying to them, then saying my signature was just a scribble and that's why he wouldn't give it to me, etc.

To sum it up, they get the package from him for us, and tell me never to do that again, because I could be arrested for it if it was different cops that showed up, but if they were in the same situation they'd do the same thing. Thank God for decent cops. I wish I'd had the presence of mind to get their names, cause I'd love to send those guys a few bottles of good stuff anonymously.

Great start to the day.

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this has it

YOU WILL NOT TOUCH MY PACKAGE.

File a complaint with FedEx.

Umm.


Hmm...



Well.

Sounds like Fed-EX uses union drivers.  

Call in, write letters, send email complaints about that motherfucker.

Indeed..

Good story.


I gotta wonder about your Doc relying on carriers for JIT delivery of critical medicines to patients, though.

It should be easy,
Put clothes on...
go to station
ask who responded etc.
Thank them and send booze later

Very tagged, in on one, IBTL, first post, SIIHPAPP and the rest of the normal replies.

In short, I gotta watch this one play out.



ETA:  IB someone asks for pics of your wife.

Wife already did. Holy insanity. This is the craziest thing that's happened to me for a long while.

Sooooo you were clothed only in a blanket and you were wrestling with your fedex guy?  I guess it's not gay if you are angry, lol.

Why didn't you just let him go, then call Fed Ex and explain what just happened and why you need the package? If you file a complaint against the driver, I'm sure you would get farther than just dealing with the moron directly.

Whos gonna do the parody thread by Fedex guy about crazy naked guy fighting for his pocket pussy??

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OK . In !

This, big time.  WTF



 

Isolated Incident!

Please tell me you've contacted his manager.

The Fed Ex guy admitted he was being a dick.  Some people act like assholes instead of taking the path of least resistance which is to just to be courteous.  Although next time just let it go in terms of making a comment about the number of doorbell rings.  It doesn't take much to set people off if they are mildly retarded.

This. That seems very problematic.

Glad your wife got her meds.

If it happened like you say call fedex he want have a job long.

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Because he had already signed for the package.  FEDEX isn't going to believe him that it wasn't delivered.

That and your next FEDEX package will definitely be lost forever.



 

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Wowsers!

My wife has the same type of condition. Several miscarraiges and 7 years to figure out the problem. I understand your reaction completely.

He called you an asshole?



Write some letters.  He can end his illustrious career as a FedEx driver shy of 21 years.

I think the Fed Ex guy was already fondled his package.  





 

Was this him?

I'd be having a talk with the drivers' supervisor.

naked brushing teeth, blanket, psycho black Fedex guy, you will not touch my package, 5-0 called...  Yep, this thread has it.  Taggage.

I beg to differ

Not so sure about that, I almost got mowed down in a cross walk by one..
They asked did I see the truck number? My reply was nope was jumping out of the way but the side of the truck is covered in coffee.
I ran into the guy about two days later when he approached me in a screaming fit inside the mall.  Complaint filed him escorted out by mall security...

He was still delivering for FEDEX after that and would scowl at me every time he walked by my work.

Yeah, I'm not looking forward to anymore deliveries from them.
The med situation is something related to her twice weekly blood tests, and apparently no local pharmacies stock much of it. She knows more about it than me.

This.. i'd be on the phone, working my may up through management right about now.

Why in the blue fuck do you argue over something as trivial as a doorbell being rung? I just won't understand it. Life's too short to get hung up on stupid shit.

What, wait a second.  

You didn't blade at 45*?  WTF?

Yep.  From what I've heard, it doesn't take too many to get those guys fired.  Again, this is what I've HEARD, I have no other experience with it, other than I do know those lazy bastards knock and take off to try to get their route done sooner.  If you're not at the door by the time they finish knocking, your package is as good as gone.  

I fucking rost right there.

 

I think OP was to busy to blade, he was getting cupped and fondled under the blanket.

JK OP I would have done the same thing minus the blanket.

This thread needs more blading.

Yep. Douchebag would have tossed the package in the trash.



Even if he hadn't, the package could not have been picked up until he completed his route, which for anyone knows could have been 9:00pm after the inside folks have gone home.



I have bought hundreds of items from ebay. I know all too well the douchebaggery of FedEx and UPS drivers.





 

Eh, I just didn't really think about it. And I didn't really consider it an argument. Plus I knew he stuck the tag on, rang the bell and ran like I've seen them do many times. Next time I will keep my mouth shut.

Where is the other thread?

Yeah, I'd be filing a complaint on that one.  Sounds like an ex-postal worker considering some of the ones we have around here.