Why I seriously HATE Fed Ex
5Okay information about the locations. I live in Redlands California. The other cities on this tracking information are Palm Desert, about 50 miles east, Bloomington about 20 miles west, and Chino about 50 miles west, those are approximate.
Shipped from Palm Desert to Redlands
3/31/2016 - Thursday
10:05 pm Arrived at FedEx location BLOOMINGTON, CA
4/01/2016 - Friday
2:51 am Departed FedEx location BLOOMINGTON, CA
4/02/2016 - Saturday
5:37 am Shipment information sent to U.S. Postal Service
4:50 am In transit REDLANDS, CA
In transit to U.S. Postal Service
2:58 am Departed FedEx location FEDEX SMARTPOST CHINO, CA
1:19 am Arrived at FedEx location FEDEX SMARTPOST CHINO, CA
This thing has been in transit 3 days to go 50 miles and no, it wasn't delivered today.
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Yeah. My Star Wars cups got here today. sry bro.
if it makes you feel any better my Midland Action Cameras are still in Kansas.
@therealjrn Mine too, all the way near Philly. They weren't even supposed to be here til Monday.
Sheesh
It's been a week and a half now they are supposed to be in transit to USPS in Tulsa. I squawked about it last Wednesday to meh CS and there's a trace being put out for it.
But you know bro? I aint even mad about it. Shit happens. If they never get here I'll have to return my two sweet SAMSUNG class 10 EVO cards I bought from AMZN in anticipation of all the high-rolling, rough-riding, wind-surfing adventures I was going to film...
But I aint even mad bro.
Did Meh recently switch to Fedex? I agree, they are less than impressive.
@alexthegirl Meh has always used Fedex Smartpost. Fedex handles the majority of the routing, then hands it off to USPS for last mile delivery.
:sad:
@legendornothing
Omg you're being civilized and intelligent all at once.
@f00l it's great I know
@legendornothing :impressed: :but not surprised:
@f00l @mikibell It is time to recognize the maturing of @legendornothing. Especially given the crowd he hangs out with.
@sligett Mature? He must be hanging around some other site too, then.
FedEx is not a fav of mine either. Drivers are often jerks.
FedEx drivers work for independent contractors. Inconsistent behavior. UPS drivers work for UPS. Generally more consistent, even friendly behavior.
@RedOak My UPS driver can be a jerk in November and December. Rest of the year he's a really great guy.
Fedex Ground drivers really shouldn't be independant contractors but that's a rant for another day.
Why not use USPS? They're fast and they're the cheapest.
@Dizavid Cheapest at retail, but not in bulk. There's a lot of backend stuff in which the other shipping companies have an advantage.
@Dizavid Think about the people in line behind the Meh employee at the post office. There is only one employee at the counter -- no matter how many terminals there are, only one is open at any one time because everyone is on their hour-long break they take every two hours -- and everyone has to wait while hundreds of packages are weighed and stamped.
FedEx itself isn't too bad, even in my rural area. But the SmartPost stuff is crap. I've actually seen one of my packages go from CT to MA and back to the same depot in CT before finally getting sent to the USPS. And that CT-MA-CT transit took 5 days. I could have walked to either of those depots in less time.
@OutbackJon The ones that really bug me are when Fedex has a delivery to make at my house with one 2-day package, and one that is Smartpost. The driver stops at the post office to drop off the Smartpost package, then drives to my house to deliver the other one.
@rockblossom Blame a goat for that logic!
But no, it's actually because FedEx runs the two separately. FedEx and SmartPost each have their own hubs.
UPS' SurePost utilizes the regular UPS hubs and has the logic to pull packages that can be delivered by themselves if there are going to be at the address already.
I live about 2.5 hours from you. My stuff always passes through Chino, but usually gets to me the next day. How weird that things get to me so quickly from Chino, yet it takes days for you.
Here's a good explanation - Bloomington, CA is not a SmartPost hub; it's a general FedEx facility. Chino, CA is the closest hub for redistribution to USPS.
http://www.fedex.com/us/smart-post/network.html
@narfcake Oh I know. I just know you could have hiked from the point of origin and it would have been quicker. Post office hasn't scanned it in yet either.
A company I used to work for used FedEx to 'mail' payroll and I can tell you they lost it more than any other company. They could never tell you where anything was and before 11 AM, meant we'll have it there around 6PM, after you close, have a nice day.
FedEx SmartPost is the worst. My Pebble Time watch sat at the FedEx depot for four days before being dropped off at the post office. Their depot is only about 2.5 hours away. I could have gone there myself and picked it up in less time.
I don't have any problems with Fed Ex, but Smartpost is the worst shipping method ever. When they ship stuff from the Dallas area, it goes past me to St Louis, then wayyyy over to Kansas City, then they bring it down 150 miles south to my town. Once it arrives at the post office, it takes several days to deliver the package, because the postal workers are too lazy to come upstairs and see if anyone is home. They leave a little package pickup slip and I can only get to the post office between 9am and 12pm on Saturdays because I work in another town 30 minutes away and can't take over an hour to go to the post office to pick up whatever crap I thought I needed. Needless to say, I try to never buy anything that requires Smartpost shipping.
Here's a blog post on SmartPost by someone named @snapster (who?) from way back in the days of Woot:
https://www.woot.com/blog/post/smartpost-who-why-and-wheres-the-feet
@narfcake The internet is wonderful and terrible thing.
@narfcake ROTFLMAO... and he said 9 years ago: "There's no argument that this shipment method is generally disliked."... Hmmm...learn from experience much? (grin). Of course if shipping cost more so would everything we buy.
Glad I'm not the only one who thinks fedex smart post is full of dumb. My fedex ships to to the local hub 20 minutes from my house, up 60 miles north to another state Ohio to Michigan, then to USPS. USPS ships it from Michigan BACK to Ohio and out for delivery. Adds 2-3 extra days to the delivery where dropping it off locally (you would think) save them money OR allowing for a hold at the location and me picking it up would be cheaper. I've picked up from the location before, it just seems silly. Nothing against meh shipping is cheap, just fedex seems a little dumb in their implementation.
@seraphimcaduto I'm guessing your local facility is general FedEx, not a Smartpost hub, hence the sorting/redistributing doesn't happen there.
@narfcake that's just it, the facility IS a smart post hub (#436) hence my questioning of their approach.
@seraphimcaduto Perrysburg is a ground hub, NOT a SmartPost hub. SP hubs are #5xxx.
http://www.fedex.com/us/smart-post/network.html
@narfcake I stand corrected, thank you for that. This has been a bad weekend for my reading comprehension skills (or lack there of). Well that makes a hell of a lot more sense now, still annoying but makes sense.
Good. Fast. Cheap.
Pick any
twoone.I must have been born under a lucky "great delivery" star. I very seldom check to see where a parcel is spending time, but I always get things on time, usually carefully placed on the screened-in front porch. I assume that the non-uniformed drivers in civilian cars are contract drivers for Smart-Post, and they too seem to be very reliable. I've had deliveries as late as 7:50pm and several on Sunday. Only once in 15 years has a parcel been "lost," and as far as I could tell in was a USPS error.
Given all the [justified] unhappiness I read here, I should up my holiday giving to two Starbucks cards per carrier.
@magic_cave FedEx doesn't do the "last mile" delivery on SmartPost items; all of that is handled by USPS. That contrasts the smarter UPS SurePost, which may be delivered by UPS themselves if it's more cost effective.
Amazon uses pretty much uses every delivery company; for me, that includes USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL, Norco, Ontrac, California Overnight, and their own "white vans".
Anticipation of having is way better than the actual having so quit bitching and enjoy the anticipation. Except for my copper ceramic fry pan that I bought during the otherguysoff, the have is way better than the anticipation and it got to me a week early, was that way cool or what?
Na Na ha ha