[Elecraft] OT: Package shippers

[Fred Jensen]

FedX places a top priority on businesses with whom they have shipping 
contracts, to the detriment of individuals.  My employer had a contract 
with them, practically everything went overnight, and the volume was 
"yuuge."  Nothing ever got lost.  I was on the road a great deal and 
regularly got envelopes at hotels, and in client's and partner's 
facilities.  I thought this was how the entire FedX world worked.  After 
retiring and having to use the FedX Store, I discovered:

It cost a LOT more to ship an envelope at the FedX Store than it did 
when I took it to work and shipped it with a company label.

Delivery to homes seems to be random.  One package was left on top of a 
trash toter at the road.  While it was badly banged up by the trash 
truck, it ended up in the road and not in the truck, fortunately.

Conversely, my wife and I "adopt" deployed troops and send them 
packages.  Since we started in 2002, we've mailed hundreds ... all USPS 
Priority Mail.  Not one has been lost, and we've gotten some photos of 
our troopers where we can see the package ... in about the shape it was 
when we mailed it.  We can even track them as far as JFK where they seem 
to fall into a military black hole. [:-) All the ones I've looked at got 
to JFK in two [sometimes one] days, to the troop in "The Stan" in about 
7 more.

73,

Fred ("Skip") K6DGW
Sparks NV USA
Washoe County DM09dn

On 4/26/2017 10:56 AM, Ken G Kopp wrote:
> I suspect for each of us our view of shippers will vary widel.
>
> FedEx is absolutely terrible!  One fat envelope of legal papers
> from our bank was left on the driveway, laying in two inches
> of water.  Another was tossed over a fence into the yard.  Yet
> another was dropped near the BACK door of the house.  Didn't
> find it until a trace was instituted for the "missing" delivery.
>