fed ex'd up

[juanbenae]

i have some engine tin being delivered by fed ex to my office and it hit the bay area on the 16th. tracking said it was on the truck and to be delivered yesterday. it was a no show, apparently the driver could not find the address. i call BS!! there are fed ex truck in our office complex every Fing day, two or three times a day to be exact.

i call after the tracking page said wrong address, called to confirm address, it was right all along. was this a case of the driver just wanting to get off the route early? have any of you ever had fed ex pull this crap?

UPS is soo much better imo,, fed ex can garggle my sack. brown does it for me

there im done venting, off to take it out on contractors now....

[cantdrv55]

My company used Fedex for years exclusively. Now, most of our packages and cargo goes by UPS. Same reason as yours plus they may be a bit cheaper.

[RallyJon]

Was it FedEx Ground maybe? They're a completely separate system using independent contractor delivery drivers. In my experience, the FedEx Ground guys are pretty clueless compared to the Express guys.

[ubiquity0]

For large packages FedEx Ground seems to work out about 1/2 the price of UPS. You get what you pay for I guess.

[singpilot]

I waited for THREE WEEKS while FedEx ground guys used a different excuse every day to not have to drive 'all the way' down to the beach from Gardena distribution center (about 12 miles). Turns out they solved their own problem by losing the packages (a set of drilled Brembo rotors for both the 944 and 911).

I put the claim in for the $300 USD. After researching it, they discovered that one of their drivers had managed to lose the packages at his own house. He got fired, and they told me employee theft was not covered by their insurance (which I had paid for). Believe it or not, they told me that I could have what was left of my packages AFTER the police had retrieved them from evidence, after the trial, about a year from now.

The seller bit the bullet, and shipped me a complete new set on a brown truck, arrived 2 days later. I never heard if he got the originals back from FedEx Ground.

Beware the green FedEx trucks.

[juanbenae]

i will specify ups from here on out. seems fed ex is like mcdonalds. i use them both so infrequent that i forget the bad taste they leave in my mouth in between uses.

im so pissed right now. if the drives under 6 ft im going to kick his ace. if hes over, and i cant kick his ace i will just give him the wicked stink eye.

and yes it was ground.

[Icemaster]

Here's the treat with UPS:

Send out a package to an employee fo mine in Sacramento last Thursday using UPS next day. They mis-route it and send it to Modesto. This gets caught about 2:30 in the PM, so immediately on teh horn with UPS trying to figure out when it will get delivered. They refuse to deliver it on Sat, wont put it on a truck to Sacramento, even thought they admit that several are headed up there, and refuse to allow him to drive the 2 hours to go the DC in Modesto and pick it up there. The earliest they'll deliver it to him is Monday, then to top it all off, the refuse to refund the cost for the overnight.

It's not like it's anything important.

Just his paycheck.

Maybe DHL is a good thing.....

[jstgermaine]

T-

I sooo apologize for the fed-ex ground guys!!! I have used the FedEx Ground dudes for years and haven't ever heard of any of this stuff...makes me really want to keep using them....

[techweenie]

Wow.

Got the runaround on a million dollar pre-production prototype electric bike sent in a hardcase to Washington DC. First it was lost, then ultimately delivered, 10 days later, fatally damaged. The second box, containing the battery and charger was routed directly to Homeland Security, which tore everything into unusable parts and returned it over 2 weeks later.

We had paid over $500 for overnight delivery. No refund.

Next time, we'll ship with a Syrian band before using FedEx again.