i physically CRINGE when i realize my package is coming FEDEX!!

[vash]

Delayed a day. I’m okay with that. Better than missing.

[WPOZZZ]

Got my door striker repair kit this morning. One day earlier than expected. It was left on my driveway.

[fintstone]

Got a package coming 2-day air by Fedex...will need another two days to find it after they deliver it somewhere else.

[juanbenae]

i got a parcel via UPS and it arrived from the east coast two days before declared when i ordered it. granted it was to arrive on a monday and showed on the fridee before.

part of the problem where i am is FE contracts with a carrier and the hub the packages are collected from is about 75 miles away. the carrier i believe is to blame as it's like they give up part way through the day not making it up the hill far enough to me. in the last year ive had the "out on the truck for delivery" at least 5-6 times only to have the status change and them adding 5 more days to the delivery window.

the loss, and subsequent recovery of the quad snow blade topped it all. three packages, two arriving late and the blade lost for a week. they delivered it to the indian casino a few miles from me. if not for a tenacious vendor who did not want to ship another FE would have given up on it completely.

[Alfasrule]

Got a funny one!
Ordered tubes for my Harman Kardon A300, After reading this post. I ordered them. They used FedEx? I wondered? Well 7 business days passed by and I got a call from a neighbor down the street about 2 miles down the road. Had"The Tubes!"
"White Punks on Dope!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJDQFLLdZ_k
That's close enough? The tube company put my phone number on the invoice, thank goodness, and the neighbor called me. I picked them up. Cool guy.
I see your point!

[vash]

Still 100% fail. No delivery! And they took off my delivery date from the website.

Faack.

[rattlsnak]

A LOT of issues come from the senders... They prepare a label (which generates shipping times, etc.) but then they don’t drop it off to get shipped for another day or two to three so the dates keep changing..

[john70t]

Ordered a package on the 21st. They shipped it same day via UPS.
"2-5 business days" advertised.

UPS tracking claims handing it off to my local Post Office on the 24th.
Problem is, the USPS says it's on the manifest but was never actually physically received.

[SiberianDVM]

UPS just delivered my new Odyssey PC925 2 days early, on a Saturday.

Bar stool shipped on Tuesday via FedEx still not here, and tracking just says "shipped". ####

[vash]

FEDEX did not DISAPPOINT!! i kid you not, the status showed "out for delivery" for three days. i never got it!! i finally clicked "leave it at location". they are trying to find out why the driver held it in his rig for three days. and get him to pull it and drop it off at the Downtown location ASAP.

this is effen ridiculous. at this point, i am so over it. several hundred dollars of fishing rods bouncing around on a mystery tour. EFF FedEX. i hate them. hate hate hate.

[911 Rod]

^^^ How can they not notice a 7' long tube!

[vash]

Originally Posted by 911 Rod

^^^ How can they not notice a 7' long tube!

preaching to the choir..

an ahem..its a 7.5' long tube

[juanbenae]

Originally Posted by 911 Rod

^^^ How can they not notice a 7' long tube!

or a 60" snow blade?

[berettafan]

Fedex flat out sucks monkey balls.

The contractor driver system they use is certainly a part of the problem BUT the distribution center near me seems to be the main issue. They just sit on stuff for days. Then load half of it on the truck.

They are almost perfect in their inability to deliver to me on time.

[SiberianDVM]

Mine shows in transit for a week, but it still hasn't left California.

[RWebb]

just use Railway Express

[vash]

Originally Posted by RWebb

just use Railway Express

you dont really make the call when you buy something online..(for the most part)

[RWebb]

historical reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Express_Agency

the subsidized train freight was killed off by the subsidized Interstates

[masraum]

Hahah, so far, at least, I get my stuff when shipped via FedEx (seems to be Home Depot's preferred vendor), but their predictions on arrival time are the worst. I can see that the stuff isn't going to arrive when they say it will, why can't their algorithm see that it's wrong.

Something shipped near Dallas. It gets picked up yesterday. Last night, I get an email that says "delivery tomorrow by end of day." And the tracking says "departed Hutchins, TX at 12:01am." I figure "seems unlikely, but it could happen, it's only 5-6 hours. This morning it still says the same thing. Yep, no way in hell. It still says today, but the latest update still says "In Transit, FT Worth, TX, 12:18pm." So it took 12 hours to travel 40ish miles?

The funny thing is that it says "it's getting there early (today). Original delivery estimate Thu, Jul 29."

Maybe the issue is like you're always told in school, go with your first thought, don't second guess yourself.

[masraum]

I've got a decent history of receiving stuff whether it's USPS, UPS or FedEx. < knock on wood >

UPS is also very accurate WRT delivery date estimates.

USPS, is OK. It gets there when it gets there, but they are pretty speedy for the price.

FedEx is hopelessly optimistic. Honestly, they've got to be 90% where they are a day later than their predicted delivery date. You'd think that they would just stick a "+1" on the end of their delivery date algorithm and call it good.