Does FedEx offer health savings accounts?

I worked for Fedex Express which is actually owned by Fedex and not contracted. That is a huge plus because of the pay and benefits. I liked that my “office” was primarily my delivery truck. It was nice to work autonomously and do things my way (to a degree). Getting outside especially during nice weather. Driving with the door open and window open always felt great. I was lucky to have a brand new truck that had AC. While working in the warehouse I did make many good friends. I enjoyed getting to know many customers on my route and having a strong rapport with them. Good benefits like cheap health insurance, 401k with good match, and when I was hired I also got a pension but that may not be available to new hires anymore. In my opinion pickups were my favorite over deliveries. It gives you a much more routine route so you know what to expect. You always got overtime (whether you wanted it or not) and anything over 40 hours was time and a half. You also got time and a half for every hour you worked over 8 so even if you didn’t work more than 40 hours in a week you still got overtime for working over 8 hours. When you hit 12 hours and more it was double time. If you work your day off (your 2nd day off is Sunday and that’s everybody) the entire shift is time and a half. If they happen to let you work Sunday as well then it’s double time.

Lifting heavy items up to 150lbs, often times on my own. Often having a truck packed front to back and floor to ceiling and trying to work around that while sometimes having to pickup packages before your deliveries were done. Serious time commitments that varied depending on the service used for the package. You would have to pass locations that you had deliveries for to get to other spots that had earlier delivery commitments. Sometimes I would have to go to the same business 2-3 times a day due to the way deliveries are made and also pickups. This could be a pro depending on what you want but most employees worked over 40 hours each week, usually 50-60. You did get overtime for it. You got an ok amount of vacation but you had to schedule for an entire year way in advance so you never knew yet what days you actually needed and just had to pick weeks. You have to use your vacation in blocks of weeks instead of using all single days. You were given 4 single days to use separately. Once you had many years of seniority you were allowed to breakup some of your weeks. Also, you bid for vacation and it starts with the most senior employee and ends with the newest. The issue with that is they make everyone bid all of their weeks in one go so the senior employees would bid all 5 weeks (5 weeks is the most you can acquire and you have to have 20 years to get it) on the best months of the year while the bottom employees (who only get 2 weeks) had to wait and see what was leftover and bid their 2 weeks. It never seemed fair and I always thought the senior employees should only get to pick 2 weeks first and once everyone made their choices then it would go back to the top and bid the rest of the weeks. When I was new I rarely could get anytime off during the summer or spring break. The whole month of December was always blacked out. 5 years of seniority gave you 3 weeks and 10 is 4 weeks.

- Great management; very flexible and work with you on a personal level. - Pays higher than any other ramp job at airport. - Great benefits like 401k, health insurance, vision insurance, flight benefits, tuition reimbursement, paid time off including vacation and sick days. These are available even as a part time worker. - Set schedule. You always have the same days off and same start time. Many people are able to work part time with another job or school.

- The job is outside, and operations do not stop because of weather. You will have to work in freezing, snowy, rainy, smokey, and hot weather sometimes. - It is physical; some people like it for exercise and to stay active, but others don’t. You can get injured if you aren’t careful and it can be tiring. - Management is dependent on shift. So others might not have the same experience.

Great benefits, help you out with school, really seem to care about your mental health, great pay

Handling all those packages could be a lot your body

IF you are lucky enough to get a small route, you can work about 4hrs a day and still get a daily base pay (if your contractor offers a day rate)

No benefits, no union protection, 1 week PTO/sick days and that's it, no retirement, and not enough of a weekly paycheck to actually save money for your own retirement in a meaningful way. This is a GIG job for very temporary young drivers who just need fast money. I've worked here 5 years and while I've enjoyed running my routes to maximize my day pay value, my body is catching up to all the strain that causes over time. And I am left without any options to pay for that, except out of my own pocket, because frankly the pay here is so bad, that you can't even afford to pay for private health insurance. If you can, it's because you are living very frugally in other areas, such as having a POS vehicle, or living in a slum apartment.

Company Benefits such as health are decent

People first motto has deteriotated over time

Health benefits and 401k plan for both full and part time drivers, get your own gas card (company vehicles only), take your lunch at any time (not in your first or last hour of your shift), work by yourself, drivers are helpful if you're a team player.

Very little room for growth, corporate can be out of touch, job can feel repetitive, waiting for late incoming package freight in the morning.

Good pay (22.6 starting) Health insurance and benefits

Salary is not stable and depends on how many hours you work according to how many stops you have every day

401K and Health benefits are great. PTO is pretty nice as well.

Dock work can be pretty labor intensive.

The Pros is, they , have good health insurance!

For years, they didn't have a 401 k program for the Package Handlers for years, and we wait for the fiscal year 2024 to sign up for it! Way over due! They talk about, I do a good job, but, they refuse to reward me , Package Handler of the month or week, in which I think that is totally absurd!

There are benefits. The pay is decent. Coworkers are good.

There isn't enough time to perform to expectation. They scrutinize without consideration for context due to the use of systems & analytics. They provide opportunities to assess management but the questions asked are more relevant to decisions made by the company and upper management, while your manager bears the consequence of your scoring. This leads to answers which do not reflect the reality in which one works. For example, your manager isn't provided functional equipment, so you respond negatively to the question, "Do you have the tools you need to deliver the Purple Promise?". The manager appears to be the problem, not the limitations imposed upon him or her. I feel that this is the company's way to pad their ratings as an employer. There's no real training anymore. Despite this & the fact of your dysfunctional equipment, systems, software, etc, you are accountable for performance failures. Although your flexibility in hours, work load, variety of obstacles faced and more is required, the parameters and expectations are quite rigid. Now there is this merge. Due to their spending on ridiculous tech-based programs intent on getting more work out of fewer people (all of which have been scrapped), based on the comparison between Express and Ground (where no such experimentation was taking place at the same time), they formed the opinion that Express was not as profitable as Ground. Now they intend to reconfigure the whole lot of operating companies (Op-co's) into one. The aim: eventual elimination of ALL hourly FedEx paid employees in favor of subcontracted workers. So much for the PSP values standard, putting our people 1st, service next and profits last in their focus. No longer a value, now it's "our culture" (i.e. the responsibility of its' support falls to the employees). Salaried employees in upper level admin roles aren't likely very safe either. Granted, they have needed to trim some fat for a while. But how is it that only after switching to a less attractive benefits package twice, switching to a less desirable health insurance provider, eliminating retirement plans for new hires and reducing access to health benefits for part timers, only THEN do they decide not to renew sponsorship for sports teams?! Meanwhile the millions of dollars in USPS contracts is not valuable enough to renew. Cutting the "fat" and means simultaneously seems substantially questionable, especially when the workers who provide the service that the company was built to provide are more & more clearly what the company considers as that fat. The people make this company with our creativity to perform outright miracles at the expense of our physical & mental well being & time with our families. I don't discount the weight of the jobs in upper management & the CEO, etc. But their success is paid by our blood, sweat and tears. There are so many dedicated to the company and their dedication is squandered in secret. We will absorb the collateral damage for their disregard. Their desperation to meet all of their fiscal goals will surely prove a sacrifice of purpose and service. A customer told me that last year, they experienced almost no service failures (failure to meet delivery commitment). This year, they have experienced about every 6th shipment arriving late to their customers. This is proof of their sacrifice and will eventually equate to loss of customers in numbers too significant to be ignored. Maybe they should create some analytics for this. No doubt it would be designed to show how the lowest paid workers and managers are at the heart of these losses in a way which fails to see how the company fails to support the outcomes they seek. No, I don't recommend this company as an employer unless you are prepared to perform magic or have super powers. Be ready to juggle because you'll get it from all sides, You'll get it from the recipients, management, corporate, district management and the tools & equipment you must rely upon to do that magic. Acknowledgement and respect are not among the benefits at FedEx, despite their PR campaigns and and expensive commercials & add would have you believe.