I used to own a FedEx Home Delivery route. Started in rural Iowa (South Council Bluffs, Treynor, Oakland, Harlan, Manilla, Underwood areas). Then after 5 months of that, I got an in town route.
I know some strange stuff goes on, but never on my shift. One Saturday (they always deliver Tuesday thru Saturday) I had a guitar going to a fellow in CB, and it needed a signature (most of our stuff did not). It was Memorial Day weekend, and I would not be going there again until Wednesday (when a holiday was on one of our days off, we took Tuesday off as well). I left the terminals phone number on the door tag, so found out he needed to talk to me. He ended up driving to Harlan (40 miles or so), so he could pick it up without slowing me down.
In Omaha, UPS has 'the ups store' in several locations. They have 'boxes', and will sign for packages. Sure enough, several of my customers had me deliver there. You should have seen the looks and snide remarks about that one!
I finally sold my route in August of 2005, but they had just announced a nationwide purchase of a company that did just as you described-deliver to the Post Office, and they would make the final delivery. The theory was that FedEx had quicker 'lanes' than the USPS, and could move the stuff large distances quicker, but could keep the overhead down by not making the final delivery. Greg
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