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Anybody send their pelican gift Fedex?
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Don't just knock FedEx.
I worked many years for another company, and many times witnessed the results of bad engineering combined with employee negligence. You really don't want to know. That being said, I've recieved "perfect" packages from all of them.
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Any company is at the mercy of a bad employee.
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Oh, I'm as sure as I could be without actually knowing, that this guy no longer drives for fedex...
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Back in the Mid 1980s, we were selling a lot of IBM PC-ATs (a rather bulky, heavy machine). Our office was 2nd floor with no elevator with a very wide outside staircase. Can't recall the carrier as we used several but the guy (not our regular delivery guy) who came to pick up our outgoing shipment was older and had a club-foot. When he got to stairs, he sat the box down, turned it up on end and gave it a push. It cart-wheeled down the flight of stairs and on past the bottom of the staircase.
Several of us saw him and hit the stairs on the run. Read the guy the riot act and told him to never come back, called the carrier and told them the story. Don't know if he was fired or not but we never saw him again. We unpacked the machine and it booted right up but the case had a large dent in the side. The carrier just wanted to pay to replace the case but eventually agreed to replace the whole machine as we argued just because it would boot didn't mean it wasn't damaged. Note: our regular dellivery guy knew he could ask for help anytime he needed it to haul stuff up/down the stairs.
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Jack, that's actually quite funny. The old guy had a set.
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Well, maybe he just had a bad day or banned from his favorite website. You have to take out your frustrations SOMEWHERE!!!
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fake.
they dont ship products in the original box.
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Paul, right click, copy imbed url....
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I have evaluated the video and determine it to be a fake. Look at the way the box moves. It must be empty. He flicks it around too easily. Why would someone who had access to a FedEx truck defame the company?
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I just got a laptop shipped ups from staples last week that was in the orginal box
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same with me....i had a laptop come to me in the original outer box with a shipping label on the outside.
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I just bought a 24" LCD TV that weighs almost nothing, I could carry it with two fingers all day.
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WOW!! i cant imagine some seller shipping electronic goods in such an exposed box.
that is insane. imagine a firearm being sent exposed?
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Unfortunately it was not a fake video
http://blog.fedex.designcdt.com/absolutely-positively-unacceptable
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I don't have to worry about shipping, this year I "named a star" after all my gift recipients.
As far as they know ..... 
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My friend was driving his pickup down the freeway at about 60 mph when his large flatscreen TV, still in the box, fell out the back and went cartwheeling down the freeway. He retrieved it, got it home, plugged it in, and worked just fine.
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