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A FedEx driver has detailed his five least favorite items to deliver door-to-door.
The man, who goes by Mr. B on TikTok, resides in Mississippi and used the platform earlier this month. to reveal the list.
The post, titled ‘The Fight’, has since been viewed more than 3 million times and has some entries that might surprise you.
As companies like Amazon and Instacart have made shopping for consumers a walk in the park, we often forget about those on the other end of the order.
And as summer comes rushing in and delivery drivers are about to ring the bell, a quick read may be in order.
The host, who goes by Mr. B on TikTok, resides in Mississippi and took to the platform earlier this month to expose the list. Disclaimer: Some of the entries may surprise you and make you reconsider what you’re packing in your metaphorical shopping cart next time.
Tough
The first bane of Mr. B’s existence is those boxes marked Chewy, a brand that sells pet food and other pet-related products in Florida.
They are one of the most recognizable boxes out there and are almost always a sure sign of extreme weight: they are filled with pounds of kibble and cans containing wet food and other physically dense items.
“If you order this, you’ll have caused more back pain than the NFL,” the delivery man comments in a caption about the blue and brown culprits.
The first bane of Mr. B’s existence is those boxes marked Chewy, a brand that sells pet food and other pet-related products in Florida.
Additionally, Chewy often repeats deliveries, commenters noted, and customers sign up for subscriptions who see boxes often weighing up to 60 pounds pedaled monthly or even weekly.
“Working at Fedex and unloading those chewy boxes is pure hell,” one viewer wrote about pet food deliveries.
“The worst thing about chew boxes is that they weigh 3 ounces or 60 pounds and you don’t know it until you pick them up,” criticized another.
Tires
To keep the list going, the next item selected by the courier was none other than tires – an unwieldy entry, to say the least, despite their transportation-focused design.
Ironically, according to the TikToker, it is difficult to transport the rubber parts in a FedEx truck, because they can weigh between 100 and 300 pounds.
What makes matters worse is that they are a surprisingly popular item for e-commerce, as customers are often sold on the prospect of such an expensive item arriving directly to their door.
The next item pointed out by the courier was none other than tires – a difficult item to handle, to say the least, despite their transportation-focused design.
But this leaves people like Mr. B in the lurch as to where to put them, as their shape and weight make them difficult to store in the back of a truck.
“You obviously don’t care about other packages I have to put in my car,” he writes in another caption.
Since transporting them is not an option, it is best to buy tires in person from an actual injection, several experts say, citing how several will match prices seen online in order to make a sale.
Perishables
Next were perishables, an increasingly common item given the advent of online grocery shopping.
In addition, the prices offered by Fresh Direct and Walmart are often better than those in brick-and-mortar stores, causing grocery orders to increase from customers emboldened by the prospect of not selling them.
However, spoiled food serves to create a time limit, which is complicated by the fact that boxes full of ice often weigh more than double digits.
This puts pressure on people like Mr. B, who writes how he often finds “the bottom of (these ice-filled boxes) soaked when he (gets) home.”
Next up were perishables, an increasingly common item given the advent of online shopping.
According to the USDA, perishables are foods or beverages that “may spoil, decompose, or become unsafe for consumption if not kept refrigerated at 40°F or lower, or frozen at 0°F or lower.”
This includes dairy, raw meat, frozen products and eggs, products that are also typically heavy.
If left out for more than two hours, consumption can be dangerous. However, ice meant to slow this down increases the weight and, as Mr. B mentioned, can become equally heavy water on a particularly hot day.
Mirrors
Seven years of bad luck for anyone vain enough to ask for a mirror, says Mr. B, citing a sarcastic “75 percent chance it’ll be broken” when it’s delivered.
That self-proclaimed statistic, he says, also explains the likely reality that “it was broken before I got to my truck.”
Because of this, he hates delivering mirrors, pointing to the large number of complaints these types of deliveries usually generate.
Seven years of bad luck for anyone vain enough to ask for a mirror, says Mr. B, citing a sarcastic “75 percent chance it’ll be broken” when it’s delivered.
As is the case with tires, they are also usually heavy and sometimes difficult to handle, which increases the difficulty when transporting them.
They are also sometimes made up of heavy frames made of bronze or other metals, making it even more complicated to transport them safely to a destination.
While they’re a nice addition to any home, it’s best to buy these pieces in person, people like Mr. B advise.
mattresses
Last, but definitely not least in terms of package issues, mattresses seem to be the white whale of the TikToker’s sometimes painful quest for deliveries.
Always popular and a necessity in any home, they are now regularly made from memory foam and can therefore be stored in boxes a fraction of the size of the full product, at the expense of the delivery person.
These boxes can be heavy, often up to 150 pounds.
Last, but definitely not least in terms of package issues, mattresses seem to be the white whale of the TikToker’s sometimes painful quest for deliveries.
These boxes, however, can become even heavier, although at the shared expense of the driver and the customer, who will have to pay an additional $100 fee at the request of FedEx if their bed exceeds this mark.
This relatively new phenomenon, seen in companies like Casper and Nectar, seems to be the one that angers Mr. B the most, considering the title that accompanies it.
“Putting a mattress in a box should be a serious crime,” he writes in a post that was liked nearly 300,000 times.
Commenters seemed to understand the FedEx worker’s plight, but they weren’t overly empathetic either.
“I apologize to all the delivery drivers, but I need those prices and discounts online,” one such person wrote, as inflation and rising food costs continue to burn holes in Americans’ pockets.
