Just placed first order with Meh, and shipping is worse than just "Meh."

BrettGlass went on a bit of a rant said
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Just placed my very first order with meh.com. Unfortunately, when I received the acknowledgement e-mail, I discovered that the order was shipped using a “mongrel” shipping service known as FedEx SmartPost (which those of us who have experienced it known as “DumbPost”). FedEx ships the package by ground (a suitable name, because they often grind packages up quite finely) to a US Postal Service depot, where it sits for a week before the Postal Service gets around to accepting it – and then processes it slowly and with rough handling, because it’s not “theirs” and they don’t believe they have to take any care with it. (In fact, the clerk at my local Post Office candidly told me that they intentionally harm and delay it so that you’ll ship the whole way with them the next time.) Goods arrive damaged, broken, and late. DHL and UPS have similar “services” (which are only “services” in the same sense that a bull “services” a cow).

I practically quit Amazon because they were using this delivery method (I eventually got Amazon Prime when they promised me they would NEVER use one of these shipping methods if I used their “Prime” shipping). If Meh wants me to order from it ever again, it had better warn me upfront that it intends to use one of these inferior, slow, destructive shipping methods and give me a way to opt out of it.