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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sunbird, post: 8095629, member: 116324&quot;]It wasn&#039;t really an employee in this case. It was FedEx Ground, so it was an independent contractor. They buy their vehicles and paint them and so forth, and start delivering. It&#039;s a completely separate corporation from what we think of as FedEx, which is now officially called &quot;FedEx Express&quot; (yes, technically Federal Express Express..., but I guess they want FedEx to be a word now instead of an abbreviation.) I think FedEx Ground was formed out of their purchase of Roadway / RPS way back – remember them?</p><p><br /></p><p>I think using contractors instead of employees leads to all sorts of issues downstream, for all sorts of businesses and industries. For example, using contractors for sensitive national security jobs is a disastrous policy – they won&#039;t feel like they&#039;re truly a part of the organization, because they&#039;re not, and this will shape their behavior.</p><p><br /></p><p>Same with delivery – psychologically, I think it&#039;s a lot easier for a contractor to do something as extreme as dumping packages than it would be for an employee who feels like they&#039;re part of the company. (Coercive monopolies like the USPS are an exception here, since the culture of entitlement and indifference, along with the unusual job security and lack of accountability, will outpunch not being a contractor.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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