Re: Re: Way OT - Fedex Ground

Now THAT is insane. You can't read signs if you can't read and have NO
business on the road period, let alone driving a commercial vehicle.
Madness.


Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Bonnie Holmes
Sent: 5/20/2004 9:44:21 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Way OT - Fedex Ground

> Part of the delivery problem may be that many drivers can't read.  The
> strangest situation we had in this area was the driver of an 18-wheeler who
> tried to take a "short cut" through the Smoky Mountains National Park and
> ended up stuck around Cades Cove Loop Road, a primitive, one-lane tourist
> road that circles the cove.  The park service had to use cranes to get that
> truck out.  Also, noticed that licensing for driving those things includes
> oral exams for those who can't read the test.
> 
> Bonnie Zone 6+ ETN
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > [Original Message]
> > From: james singer <jsinger@igc.org>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Date: 05/19/2004 4:20:59 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Way OT - Fedex Ground
> >
> > I would think they would all have access to Billy Gates's Map Point 
> > program. Every job I send out of the nursery has a site map tucked in 
> > the work order.
> >
> > Wasn't always like that. When I first went to work at the nursery, a 
> > crew transplanted the wrong queen palm on the wrong lot. So maps. At 
> > least the lot will be right; what the crew does after they get there is 
> > still up for grabs. Sort of.
> >
> > On Wednesday, May 19, 2004, at 07:24 PM, Kitty wrote:
> >
> > > Chuckle...that reminds me of the christmas presents I sent my sister in
> > > Lethbridge, AB.  They hadn't been delivered and UPS tracking indicated 
> > > a
> > > problem.  I called UPS, they gave me the 800 # in Canada, so I could 
> > > talk to
> > > the Canadian UPS people.  Very  nice people but for some reason their 
> > > driver
> > > could not find 7th street.  She asked if *I* would give her directions.
> > > Don't they have maps?????? We finally had them change the delivery to 
> > > her
> > > office at the university.  That they could find.
> > >
> > > Kitty
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <Zemuly@aol.com>
> > > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 2:12 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Way OT - Fedex Ground
> > >
> > >
> > >> I'll certainly never use FedEx Ground again.  You all probably know 
> > >> that
> > >> FedEx's int'l headquarters is in Memphis.  LaGrange (where I live) is 
> > >> 40
> > > miles
> > >> east of there on what is one of Memphis's main thoroughfares.  (There 
> > >> are
> > > no
> > >> turns at all.) FedEx Ground couldn't find it!  I had to call the
> > > warehouse, speak
> > >> with the driver and give him specific instructions on how to find this
> > > town.
> > >> zem
> > >>
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> > Island Jim
> > Southwest Florida
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