[Milsurplus] Fedex Shipping...Cheap, and you get what you pay for.

[Bruce Lane]

	Mike, I appreciate that you've had problems, and this will be my last message on the topic to avoid list clutter.

	All I'm saying is that my direct experiences with FedEx contradict just about everything you're saying.

	It appears that we will agree to disagree on this one. I have every intention of continuing to use them.

	Keep the peace(es).

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On 19-Jun-05 at 13:26 Mike Morrow wrote:

>Bruce wrote:
>
>>On Delivery Notices: Never had one left that DIDN'T have a tracking
>>number, and a contact phone number, clearly imprinted. I can only
>>conclude that your troubles may be due to a specific negligent driver.
>> In short, it may be one bad apple spoiling the bunch.
>
>I've lived and accepted deliveries in the same location for 20 years.  I've
>had only one or two Fedex notices that ever had a tracking number, which in
>Fedex's antiquated way of doing business requires the driver to manually
>write that number on the delivery notice.  Hence, the drivers usually skip
>that blank on the rare occasion that they even bother to leave a notice.
>
>It's not a particular driver.  For many years this has been characteristic
>of Fedex here in north Alabama long before they began ground transport
>"services."
>
>As far as a contact phone number being on the notice, it is just a 1-800
>number through which you have to navigate the Fedex organization to finally
>talk to someone at the local terminal.
>
>>Unless you explicity specify, on ground packages, that a signature
>>is required for delivery the package will indeed be left at the delivery
>>location in whatever spot the driver thinks is best suited for it.
>
>This completely makes my point!  Any shipper that can make arbitrary
>decisions on where to drop a package, without any communications with the
>recipient, without even the simple courtesy of leaving a delivery notice so
>that the receipient can determine if a package was supposed to be present,
>is a shipper to be avoided.
>
>>HOWEVER -- Specify signature service, and the package will
>>NOT be released without a signature.
>
>The intended recipient of the package has absolutely NO control that
>ensures
>the shipper will take even that minimal precaution.  It is totally out of
>the intended recipient's hands.  UPS or USPS on the other hand, have
>*never*
>left a package here where it could be subject to local pilfering.
>
>>I think they're [prices] lower because they're running a more efficient
>>operation
>
>That is what they'd like people to think, irrespective of any supporting
>evidence.  Their "service" is worse than valueless if the package doesn't
>finally make it to the intended recipient, no matter how nice and easy
>they've made things for the shipper.
>
>73,
>Mike / KK5F
>
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