FedEx does it again - Update
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08/17/23 09:24 AM
08/17/23 09:24 AM
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I order a couple storage shelves. Seller uses FedEx. Tracking number says that it will arrive on the 17th. Then I get an update that it will be early on the 16th. Then I get an update that it's back to the 17th. So, this morning I get a note that they tried to deliver at 7:55 AM and since no one was home, delivery will now be the 18th. So I call FedEx, tell them that we are home and if the truck is still in town we can take delivery. Agent says the truck is not in town and that no delivery was attempted today but they will deliver tomorrow. ???? I'm sure you've seen me say I hate FedEx.
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Re: FedEx does it again
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08/17/23 11:19 AM
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The only thing worse is the US Postal service!
I kicked FedEx out of our business a couple of years ago and haven't missed them once.
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Re: FedEx does it again
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08/17/23 01:37 PM
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Even though you have no control if someone else is shipping something to you, the wife has been using https://www.pirateship.com/ to ship packages and it's waaay cheaper to ship even though they're using the same shippers (USPS, Fedex, UPS, etc) You're still at their mercy as far as the quality of the shipping, but the price is always cheaper. The wife has been waiting for a package for about 3 weeks from the post office. It was shipped from California and was supposed to come to Missouri, but it went to Puerto Rico for some reason based on the tracking. We have a guess as to why, but won't know sure till it arrives. Our zip code is 63084 and Puerto Rico's 03084. If a scanner read the first number wrong that would explain the detour. Until it arrives we don't know if the label is hand written or printed. The woman who shipped it kinda acts like it's not her problem "I shipped it" is what she says. She doesn't seem to get that if it gets lost only she can initiate anything with the post office since she's the shipper/postal customer.
Kayse can't keep up at all now. lol
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Re: FedEx does it again
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08/17/23 02:18 PM
08/17/23 02:18 PM
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The only thing worse is the US Postal service!
I kicked FedEx out of our business a couple of years ago and haven't missed them once. So NO USPS or Fedex: whom do you use then?
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Re: FedEx does it again
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08/17/23 03:23 PM
08/17/23 03:23 PM
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FedEx: When it absolutely, positively, has to be there within maybe 2 to 4 days of the original estimated delivery date... assuming the roads aren't too crappy due to the weather... and driver doesn't call in sick That said, it's funny that I just received an on-time FedEx delivery in the middle of typing that sentence above
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Re: FedEx does it again
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08/17/23 03:48 PM
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I had a package that made it within 20 miles of here then inexplicably got sent more than 500 miles away then sent to yet another city and finally back to the same place that misdirected it in the first place. Finally did get here almost a week late.
Last edited by GomangoCuda; 08/17/23 03:49 PM.
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Re: FedEx does it again
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08/17/23 05:53 PM
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Is it just FedEx or shippers in general because IMO the newer upcoming workforce has so much less work ethic. I have packages from UPS also that look like someone played soccer with them. It just seems to be a deterioration of Customer Service and concern for doing a good job.
Facts are stubborn things.
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Re: FedEx does it again
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08/17/23 06:07 PM
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UPS, USPS, and especially FedX around here don't care if anyone is home. Sometimes FedX even stops the truck before leaving our stuff in plain site of the road in the weather
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Re: FedEx does it again
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08/17/23 06:21 PM
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The only thing worse is the US Postal service!
I kicked FedEx out of our business a couple of years ago and haven't missed them once. I had been shipping with FedEx Ground since 2002 until late December last year. I finally had enough of them! Final straw with them was they went to offshore customer service, & if your payment to them was after the due date AT ALL, they would lock your account. So you call FedEx collections & you get someone from the Phillipines that wants payment on a credit card right up to the latest shipment or you can pound sand. That was it for me. Not to mention short shipments that customers never received product but FedEx shows the stuff was delivered. Didn't matter if the customers had front porch cameras that proved otherwise. And their rates skyrocketed with NO consistency at all. I could ship same items to the same person two weeks apart, & one of the shipments might be $10.00 difference. FedEx Ground drivers are contract & many of them are about the same caliber as Amazon drivers - like NOT dedicated or professional! SO, I got in touch with my local UPS rep through my UPS driver, & she has been fantastic to work with. So far, my shipping rates have dropped at least 35% & I have had zero issues. UPS drivers work FOR UPS - they are not contract - they are lifers & they seem to be a whole 'nother kind of employee. From what I've seen so far, UPS is the way to go 100%. Post office - what a joke. Some CRAZY employees over the last few years & getting worse.
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Re: FedEx does it again
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08/17/23 07:22 PM
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It should be only when the shipper has "Signature Required" that they won't leave it if nobody is home.
Facts are stubborn things.
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Re: FedEx does it again
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08/17/23 10:15 PM
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Is it just FedEx or shippers in general because IMO the newer upcoming workforce has so much less work ethic. I have packages from UPS also that look like someone played soccer with them. It just seems to be a deterioration of Customer Service and concern for doing a good job. Worked at UPS years ago loading/unloading trailers, also some sorting. Conveyor belts "couldn't" stop only in emergency, so jammed boxes got kicked/punched/etc to free up jams. Amazing what would come down belts: bolts/candy/etc from broken boxes. Large heavy boxes would crush smaller fragile boxes. Torn stuff was tossed below belts for later cleanup. A single jam someplace would "freeze up" many stations. When the Shift started, sorting/loading, they didn't want it stopped until trucks loaded or unloaded. Only saw what happened on my shift & they were active 24/7.
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Re: FedEx does it again
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08/18/23 10:44 PM
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I received a pair of Stock reproduction corvette side pipes that were literally just banded together with a shipping label slapped on them. They were severely BENT as though they were trying to navigate a corner on a conveyor and got JAMMED. I can tell you they did some damage to the conveyor and anything nearby. I had to laugh a bit as i can only imagine what the maintenance guy had to say and what he might have done to the shipping person LMAO pic attached for your imagination
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Re: FedEx does it again
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08/22/23 11:42 AM
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Yesterday I get a call from a real live person at the FedEx hub in Bismarck. She inquires about my shipment, says it is at the hub, and the paperwork is somewhat confusing, what do I want them to do? The shipment is two metal shelves that weigh 150# each and are 6' long. I thank her for calling and tell her that if the delivery driver could call me just before he delivers, we could load the shipment from the FedEx truck to my pickup and save everyone's back. She said no problem, she'll leave a note for the driver. Well, I get up this morning, check my emails and lo and behold, there is one from FedEx that my packages were already delivered. So I look outside and sure enough, FedEx already dropped them off AND leaned them up against the garage door. So if I hadn't checked and opened the door, the packages would have fallen in and take out the rear window in Momma's Subaru. Just when you think there is a ray of hope...........
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Re: FedEx does it again - Update
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08/22/23 09:50 PM
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Of course, as usual...
Hi, RS. Your package from SO is delayed due to our normal incompetence. SCHEDULED DELIVERY: Pending Initially expected: Friday 08/25/2023
INCOMPETENCE DELAY TRACKING NUMBER: what's that? FROM: SO
TO: TX, US, 76034, hells bells, we don't go there, too friggin' hot SHIP DATE: Mon 8/21/2023 03:51 PM DELIVERY LOCATION: IRVING, TX
Wondering when a package will arrive? Always when it comes via fedup
Last time somebody used F'eduped, the package was stuck in Cisco, Texas, on it's way from California, for two days, where they have no terminal, next report it's in Chicago, and takes another four days to get here.
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