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[John0829]

I tell any one I do business with NOT to ship FedEx, they hold packages until they get what they feel is enough quantity of packages before they will deliver out where we are. They have held packages for well over a week before delivering. Tracking numbers are a good thing... for raising your blood pressure.

 

[mllud]

Maybe they could lower shipping costs by getting their routing straightened out.
Trucking it to five or six places where it has to be scanned at every location has to be expensive. They pass that cost on to us.

 

[LouNY]

This is what UPS did with a package for me a few days ago.,

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06/02/2025
12:00 P.M.
Delivered
DELIVERED
GREENWICH, NY, US
06/02/2025
7:18 A.M.
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Out For Delivery Today
Latham, NY, United States
05/31/2025
6:14 P.M.
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Processing at UPS Facility
Latham, NY, United States
05/31/2025
3:20 A.M.
Arrived at Facility
Latham, NY, United States
05/30/2025
10:32 P.M.
Departed from Facility
Buffalo, NY, United States
05/30/2025
2:29 P.M.
Arrived at Facility
Buffalo, NY, United States
05/30/2025
9:03 A.M.
Departed from Facility
Mansfield, OH, United States
05/30/2025
8:28 A.M.
Arrived at Facility
Mansfield, OH, United States
05/30/2025
4:12 A.M.
Departed from Facility
Lexington, KY, United States
05/29/2025
5:32 A.M.
Processing at UPS Facility
Lexington, KY, United States
05/29/2025
4:38 A.M.
Departed from Facility
Kingston, NY, United States
05/29/2025
3:24 A.M.
Arrived at Facility
Kingston, NY, United States
05/28/2025
10:55 P.M.
Departed from Facility
Middletown, PA, United States
05/27/2025
11:27 P.M.
Arrived at Facility
Middletown, PA, United States
05/27/2025
9:31 P.M.
Departed from Facility
Baltimore, MD, United States
05/27/2025
8:52 P.M.
Arrived at Facility
Baltimore, MD, United States
05/27/2025
3:17 P.M.
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Baltimore, MD, United States
05/26/2025
7:23 P.M.
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United States

From MD to PA to NY to KY to OH to NY and then finally to me.

 

[Locoweed]

That resembles some of my experiences with usps

 

[Dftodd]

One guy on Practical Machinist had a totally domestic package make it to the Philippines before coming back!

FedEx smart ship, isnt very smart.

I had a small part for the dishwasher. Part reached Jackson Mississippi (4hrs away) as expected.

Then went on a week long vacation to Florida. Then meandered back to Jackson Mississippi. Then on to Little Rock, and out for delivery

 

[WM75Guy]

We ordered some limited edition sheets of stained glass, which is a routine thing for us. When we received the box it looked in bad shape and was very heavy, which is quite unusual. Seems along the way an employee at a FedEx facility cut open the box and stuck a John Deere front wheel adapter and an envelope with an antique license plate bracket in the box, both with shipping labels clearly showing they were not coming to us or even to the same town for one and a different state for the other. They then taped it back up and sent it along the way. Needless to say, the glass was destroyed. Called FedEx, they didn't seem to care. Called the glass supplier, they said it was not unusual and would sent us replacement glass at no charge, once it was back in stock. We notified the other 2 recipients that we had their packages and would return them to where we ship everything out so they could get back into transit. I did follow up to make sure they got their packages. The guy's tractor was broke down in the field waiting on the adapter. Seems like it was hard to find, coming from a dealer in PA to the customer in TX.

 

[dstig1]

That's one of the oddest shipping mishaps I have ever heard. Break open your package and add more to it. Wild.

And I needed one post to hit 5000, because I wanted to see what that was like.

 

[California]

...Seems along the way an employee at a FedEx facility cut open the box and stuck a John Deere front wheel adapter and an envelope with an antique license plate bracket in the box,

Somewhere there's a reaaaaly po'd FedEx employee. Or likely ex employee!

Destroying artistic glass plus shortchanging some innocent farmer? What an ugly mean sense of humor.

 

[rontaki]

Then there is the old saw, What would you get if FedEx merged with UPS? FedUp, of course.

 

[WinterDeere]

Then there is the old saw, What would you get if FedEx merged with UPS? FedUp, of course.

I deal with both almost every day, running a small manufacturing business from our rural residential / farm-zoned property. On the phone or web, Fed Ex is easier and more helpful, but employs drivers who are just absolutely terrible.

I've dealt with probably 20+ different UPS drivers in my working life, having always worked in manufacturing with lots of goods going in/out, and they've all been very professional and very good at their jobs. On the flip side, the Fed Ex drivers I have to deal with are almost consistently sloppy, disgruntled, and downright reckless drivers.

If I had a way to prevent vendors from using Fed Ex, I would, just to keep their drivers off our property and out of our neighborhood. Unfortunately, some vendors default to them, and so they're not entirely avoidable.