What is going on with fedex ground? Bought by Pitney Bowes or something?
2Meh seems to be sending stuff using fedex now, and stuff coming from other places too, seem to be having issues. Like stuff gets to Bloomington, CA, maybe 80 mile drive from me, and sits for days, changes to delivery date pending, etc.
A chewy order a family member made, 2 large boxes, started in Bloomington, but just showed label created for almost a week. A call to chewy and they resent the order, the next day fedex showed the original boxes made it to the local fedex center, and were cancelled by the shipper and were being sent back.
My latest order here, looks like it went fedex from Texas to Bloomington, and now shows pending for delivery date.
I mean, still in the estimated delivery window for the order, but should be an easy calculation of 1-2 days to get here from there.
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Noting but issues with FedEx. delivery times, damaged packages, “delivery exception has occured” . I cringe whenever I see shipped via FedEx. I have a FedEx account and you can state where you want your packages left…when they get there…
@gfreek Have you ever had them honor a request? They don’t strike me as particularly interested in making their recipients happy. I look at that nod to customer service as the equivalent of the “close door” button in the elevator!
@gfreek I can count at least five FedEx orders in the last year that were delivered to literally everyone on my street except me. My house number is clearly visible, they just are pathologically committed to going to the wrong places. My neighbors have been more reliable in redelivering to me, but the last package seems gone for good.
Their “customer service” is a joke, too. I tried (in a non-Karen manner I might add) to speak with someone in charge who could tell me how my claim was going and the guy I talked to literally hung up on me. Yikes.
I’ve noticed that my Meh orders are taking significantly longer as well. And I’m in the DFW area. I had one that went to the Dallas side of DFW to Louisiana and then back to me on the Fort Worth side of DFW. Other packages have been taking a week to arrive once they show shipped rather than the 1-2 days they used to take.
@gt0163c
I ordered a big box of stroopwaffels during the last Mehrathon and it arrived here in FtW in 2 days…
I know. Same shit show in Fl here with Fedex. Usually takes 5 hours from Ocala to Palmetto where item is loaded on the delivery truck. Two days and counting now for my IRK.
I had a shipment from Michigan City, IN make it to Columbus OH (30 min south of me) and then sit there for days. Finally, Columbus decided the package should see a bit of the Queen City and sent it down to Cincinnati. Well Cincy wanted no part of this and after a few days sent it back to Columbus, who held it for 2 days and then decided maybe it should be delivered. From the looks of the box, the people at freight companies have anger issues. Understandable since people like me come places like this and complain about them
Funny you bring up Fedex, i was just thinking about my last couple of deliveries from Meh, wondering if there’s some relationship between FedEx & PB these days. They sure do seem to take their time, but I’ve never expected much from them in that dept.
The thing that I’ve noticed more & more lately is their passive-aggressive placement of the boxes, JUST outside the overhang of the roof at my gate. One more tiny step or a stretch of the arm & my packages wouldn’t be soggy or encased in ice like the last few.
The weather’s been more than a little variable, which is to be expected this time of year (or any time, for that matter) in New England. That ain’t new, baby! I think I’m gonna start calling them FedDicks.
@ircon96 Is that a Terry Tate reference??
@theredia The one & only office linebacker! Don’t forget those cover sheets!!
Last week I had a FedEx ground package oscillate between west LA & east LA, and then park for several days before teleporting to Utah.
Had a Sam’s order for a tablet do the same kind of thing. Original order said ‘delivery by 12/9’. Thought “well shit… we are going out of town then” Got a notice it was on the truck and ‘out for delivery’ on 12/6…Whoo hoo… which was awesome (que bot). But it rained for about a half hour that day (though it was a real gully-washer for that 30 minutes) so it got ‘delayed due to weather’. Next day it was back ‘on the truck for delivery’. As I was leaving my driveway in the afternoon I saw the truck drive by and hit the brakes. I stayed in the drive thinking “cool… there it is”. Truck went on a little bit, did a 3 point turn in a driveway then headed back my way… then turned down another f’in road!. That night… delivery exception again.
Next morning (12/8) we left bright and early to fly to KC. Yep, you guessed it. They proudly sent me a notice they delivered the package on my porch! Had to get a neighbor to retrieve it so be sure it was secure.
Yeah… another FedEx shit-show.
But… all that being said, in general they have been timely and accurate. Got a package with a photo mug from Sam’s on time, in good shape and quicker than expected.
As usual, YMMV.
TL:DR COVID has totally/tragically disrupted the delivery industry.
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@mediocrebot
Thanks for not leaving me hanging…
My stuff usually comes Fedex and sits in Denver for an extra day getting “delivery exceptioned” and delivered the next day. This time it was an unreadable label they had to reprint. Sure, looks fresh out of the printer.
Are you near the LA port or rail hub?
Could be an issue with getting short haul carriers if your competing with container shipping supply chain resources.
FXG has been whacked-out for months, but it got much worse at the end of November. I think their problems all stem from the fact that most years, they have hired a ton of extra drivers and added more trucks at both the transport and delivery layers, but this year neither the drivers nor the trucks were to be had. So they’ve been stuffing the trailers extra-full, and some of those have ended up getting parked and ignored instead of unloaded at transfer points. Places I could ordinarily hit in two days via FXG have taken three or four regularly, and one particularly infamous package sat in a local transfer truck here in Houston for seventeen days before they unloaded it and sent it on its way. (And since it was aimed at a hold-for-pickup location that the recipient was nowhere near by that point, it took another eight days after it got there before it reached the people it was ordered by.)
Mostly this, tho there are some other serious factors at play. I believe that while overall mail & package timeliness / delivery completion rates have dropped significantly, majority still get where they are supposed to go. I experience occasional periods of extensive shipping for eBay, Amazon marketplace, & other outlets, and I have far more issues with unscrupulous buyers than with pkg deliveries.
I’m in Ft Worth, TX. FWIW, I’ve shipped these packages recently: