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Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,109 ✭✭✭✭✭

Just read the press release on the discovery of 300-400 Fedex packages found dumped off a road in the south. Wonder if there's any coins in that mess. Were all the parcels on the same truck? Hopefully more is revealed. Peace Roy

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  • DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,347 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 27, 2021 9:43AM

    I don't think this is it but you get the idea..........

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  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,109 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yup, that be da place. Good ole Alabamy.

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  • bolivarshagnastybolivarshagnasty Posts: 7,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Chattanooga news interviewed Sheriff. He and his were guarding the packages while FedEx employees were recovering them.

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,411 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I assume that all of the packages were opened and looted?

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  • cameonut2011cameonut2011 Posts: 10,169 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CaptHenway said:
    I assume that all of the packages were opened and looted?

    Then why not toss empty packages in the garbage?

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,703 ✭✭✭✭✭

    well, the cops were guarding them

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  • pmh1nicpmh1nic Posts: 3,295 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @cameonut2011 said:

    @CaptHenway said:
    I assume that all of the packages were opened and looted?

    Then why not toss empty packages in the garbage?

    They would still want to identify the parcels to understand who send them, what was in them and where they were going.

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  • derrybderryb Posts: 37,206 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Repetition of ignorance is ignorance raised to the power two.

  • 1Bufffan1Bufffan Posts: 656 ✭✭✭✭

    They should be able to see who's truck they were assigned to maybe the driver was up against a time limit and had a dump off site, looks like it was used often. Now you know why it takes so long to get packages delivered to a PO Box, Not.

  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 10,167 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The news broadcast I saw of the event was much larger and the announcer said that FedEx was sending trucks from many locations to help with the clean up of packages. Must have been many. Doesn't make the least bit of sense, if not opened.
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  • cameonut2011cameonut2011 Posts: 10,169 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @pmh1nic said:

    @cameonut2011 said:

    @CaptHenway said:
    I assume that all of the packages were opened and looted?

    Then why not toss empty packages in the garbage?

    They would still want to identify the parcels to understand who send them, what was in them and where they were going.

    What I meant is if stolen/looted, why would the thieves have left the evidence in the ravine instead of putting it in the garbage where no one would think anything of it?

  • BStrauss3BStrauss3 Posts: 3,552 ✭✭✭✭✭

    They're going to tell us the door wasn't properly latched and the packages fell out on a sharp turn. Just an accident, nothing to worry about.

    BTW, it took three times going around it to empty the truck.

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,411 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Could have been an inside job where somebody knew that a certain high-value package was going to be on a certain truck in a certain location on a certain day?

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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,703 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 27, 2021 6:49PM

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/8776541002

    So you scan them delivered and toss them in bulk … do something else or simply make your numbers

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  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,825 ✭✭✭✭✭

    They aren't the only ones with problems:

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  • pmh1nicpmh1nic Posts: 3,295 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @cameonut2011 said:

    @pmh1nic said:

    @cameonut2011 said:

    @CaptHenway said:
    I assume that all of the packages were opened and looted?

    Then why not toss empty packages in the garbage?

    They would still want to identify the parcels to understand who send them, what was in them and where they were going.

    What I meant is if stolen/looted, why would the thieves have left the evidence in the ravine instead of putting it in the garbage where no one would think anything of it?

    Those packages have been handled by numerous people. I seriously doubt there is any usable evidence on them. In addition that’s a lot of packaging to dispose of. Getting rid of it would constitute work :).

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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,703 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Reading between the lines of the news story, fedex is picking up packages not packaging and treat them right from here on out

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  • VanHalenVanHalen Posts: 4,175 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Namvet69 said:
    Just read the press release on the discovery of 300-400 Fedex packages found dumped off a road in the south. Wonder if there's any coins in that mess. Were all the parcels on the same truck? Hopefully more is revealed. Peace Roy

    Just talked with a FedEx delivery driver tonight. He worked 6:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. yesterday. He told me one of their local drivers (contract) abandoned a truck with ~150 packages on board. The driver didn't dump them, simply parked the truck and walked off!

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looking at the picture, it 'appears' most have been opened... maybe some damaged in dumping I guess.... Cheers, RickO

  • @cameonut2011 said:

    @pmh1nic said:

    @cameonut2011 said:

    @CaptHenway said:
    I assume that all of the packages were opened and looted?

    Then why not toss empty packages in the garbage?

    They would still want to identify the parcels to understand who send them, what was in them and where they were going.

    What I meant is if stolen/looted, why would the thieves have left the evidence in the ravine instead of putting it in the garbage where no one would think anything of it?

    maybe because they are low IQ?

  • WAYNEASWAYNEAS Posts: 6,886 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very sad.
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  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @VanHalen said:

    @Namvet69 said:
    Just read the press release on the discovery of 300-400 Fedex packages found dumped off a road in the south. Wonder if there's any coins in that mess. Were all the parcels on the same truck? Hopefully more is revealed. Peace Roy

    Just talked with a FedEx delivery driver tonight. He worked 6:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. yesterday. He told me one of their local drivers (contract) abandoned a truck with ~150 packages on board. The driver didn't dump them, simply parked the truck and walked off!

    Presumably now he is an ExFedEx driver

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  • YQQYQQ Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Why do you guys always think the worst?
    could it perhaps just have been an accident involving a FedEx vehicle?
    why does it always have to be the worst, like theft or other criminal activities ??? etc...>
    None of you knows any details. right? But you all know what "should have been" or how it should have been handled....
    somebody might have only spread a rumor?? for whatever reason
    I rest my case.

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  • nwcoastnwcoast Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Reminds me of an episode, many years back, when as a “circulation manager” for a local newspaper and I got a call that several dozen bundles of special edition papers were found piled up in the woods, wet and very much outdated. As it turns out, little Tony wasn’t so fond of his extra responsibilities in the delivery of those Friday editions.

    Not saying that’s what happened here, but clearly this appears a little more suspicious than packages piling up in an overloaded warehouse.
    Systems are very strained and breaking down more often than a few years ago when little Tony decided to take some extra Fridays off.

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  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @YQQ said:
    Why do you guys always think the worst?
    could it perhaps just have been an accident involving a FedEx vehicle?
    why does it always have to be the worst, like theft or other criminal activities ??? etc...>
    None of you knows any details. right? But you all know what "should have been" or how it should have been handled....
    somebody might have only spread a rumor?? for whatever reason
    I rest my case.

    I'm not sure you have a case... You are now speculating as much as anyone else 😜

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  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 28, 2021 2:54PM

    @nwcoast said:
    Reminds me of an episode, many years back, when as a “circulation manager” for a local newspaper and I got a call that several dozen bundles of special edition papers were found piled up in the woods, wet and very much outdated. As it turns out, little Tony wasn’t so fond of his extra responsibilities in the delivery of those Friday editions.

    Not saying that’s what happened here, but clearly this appears a little more suspicious than packages piling up in an overloaded warehouse.
    Systems are very strained and breaking down more often than a few years ago when little Tony decided to take some extra Fridays off.

    When I had a paper route, I am embarrassed to say that I was a guy who dumped circulars. Not my finest moments.

    Edited to say: this was roughly 45 years ago. Probably past the statute of limitations.

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  • nwcoastnwcoast Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭✭✭

    THIS was about 42 years ago….
    Tony? That you? ;-)

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  • RampageRampage Posts: 9,489 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've been expecting a package from FedEx for a few weeks now. I suppose it is possible to be in that stash. :neutral:

  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @nwcoast said:
    THIS was about 42 years ago….
    Tony? That you? ;-)

    You got me... I turned state's evidence against some other paperboys, and went into witness protection under a new name.

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  • cameonut2011cameonut2011 Posts: 10,169 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BryceM said:
    They aren't the only ones with problems:

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    I’m curious of the back story on the first photo. Did someone “go postal?”

  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @cameonut2011 said:

    @BryceM said:
    They aren't the only ones with problems:

    image
    image
    image
    image
    image

    I’m curious of the back story on the first photo. Did someone “go postal?”

    Post-Apocalypse.

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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    When I had a paper route, I am embarrassed to say that I was a guy who dumped circulars.

    we had an incident like that when I was a carrier in the late 1960's. some boys several stops after mine had been putting all their extra-sections into the storm sewer by their drop-off point. one day the City cleaned out the sewers: busted!!! the District Manager made the rounds that afternoon to check everyone and he was pretty PO'd, but we were all OK.

  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I read an article this morning that an arrest had been made in this case and the driver had confessed.

  • Jzyskowski1Jzyskowski1 Posts: 6,650 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 11, 2021 6:14AM


    🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶

  • LuxorLuxor Posts: 486 ✭✭✭✭✭

    When I see stuff like this happening, it makes me put things in perspective when I get very annoyed because my priority mail envelope with a recent auction win is arriving a day or two late.

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  • oldabeintxoldabeintx Posts: 2,178 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I see what looks like cat food, the stuff my wife orders for HER cat. The shift in buying habits has radically changed how goods move. The hours that each of us spent shopping and traveling to and from the stores have been shifted in part to warehouse processors and local deliverers. The adjustment will take time and capital.

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