It's a job, I guess (WHEN THERE ARE HOURS) - Part Time Package Handler FedEx Employee Review

2.0
Mar 21, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

• Shifts are between 2.5 and 6 hours (usually about 3 or 3.5) • Flexible schedule. Calling off is easy. • Work is easy. You're either building a wall, taking a wall down, scanning things, or pushing things on a belt. • Lyft coupon. Your ride is usually $10-15 with the coupon, but some days. they're $20 or more. • Purple Pathways is a training program for other FedEx jobs. • Tuition for some (online?) colleges • Help getting a CDL

Cons

• NO HOURS RIGHT NOW. I'm lucky to get 12 hours a week now. Things have been slow since before peak season last year. Management is always ordered to send people home early, even though there's plenty of work for everyone. • Inconsistent hours. They can change the start time the day of, sometimes an hour before the normal start time. • EXHAUSTING, especially for the first 6 months. • DANGEROUS. Boxes are always coming into the truck, even when your truck is already flooded with boxes or has larger items blocking your walkway. Don't be afraid to close the chute and catch up. • Loud, dusty environment (OSHA offers earplugs by the time clocks. They're kinda big, but you get used to them, or you could always buy your own. Either way, they're better than ringing ears.) • Broken machines. Boxes get stuck in the rollers all the time, and some chutes are hard to open, close and move.

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Cons

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Pros

Good consistency in pay, caring bosses, solid yearly raises, consistent/regular routes, not a lot of floating between routes after gaining minimal seniority. I was given a route to myself after only 5 months of work, even before then I was usually given that route with minimal floating to other routes for the day. I have loved working here. So much consistency and you are just basically driving all day, bringing cool people their packages (my route is a mix between in town and countryside). I highly recommend this company through a contractor, working for FedEx corporate/Express has mixed reviews. Not much micromanaging at all from my contractor.

Cons

Contracts between third-party and FedEx corporate are not always great or reasonable financially leading to occasional and temporary surprise increases in workload due to contracts with companies like Walmart, Costco, Amazon without much increase in base pay as a result, although contractors do compensate their drivers out of their profits. It would be nice if they received more from the third-parties as a result. The trucks take a beating but they do pretty well with what we give them, they still stay comfortably drivable and contractors are always ready to repair them. Sometimes the trucks struggle with A/C, not critically but still not always crispy and not extremely comfortable in mid-western heat.

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