I ordered a new laptop from Apple. Since I’m rarely home during the day, I arranged to have it shipped to the local Fed Ex office so that I can pick it up.
Fuckers!
Yep, but that arrow thing is cool.
Is this one of those finish-it-yourself stories?
Are we missing part of the post?
Still. FedEx can ship to UPS and USPS. Done both. That said, you cannot ship to an address that is not yours and expect them to get the package for you and hand it to you at your convenience. Imagine haivng it shipped to your local Chinese restaurant. Same deal. Who is responsible for that package between the time it is delivered and the time you pick it up? Do you have an agreement with them? I know it sounds logical to have it shipped to one of their locations for you to pick up, but it is not.
This thread makes absolutely no sense at all.
BWARK !
Maybe if you specifically ask to speak with a white customer service person?
sorry, I’m kidding.
As I understand things, if you are not home, Fedex will leave a little ticket on the door. You can then take the ticket to the local Fedex office, show them ID, and pick up your package.
No?
My money is on a fat Fedex employee shooting the OP’s cat with a bb gun.
It’s longer, but it took me more than five minutes to edit after accidently hitting, “Post It” Maybe later, I’ve got breakfast burning and 6.5 minutes of brilliant ranting lost in the ether.
I tried to skip that step by having it sent to Fed Ex, the company shipping the package. I figured why waste a day with them trying to deliver it to someone who isn’t there. And that’s what I’m going to end up doing - have it delivered to someone who isn’t there.
The problem is that the package was sent Fed Ex Ground to Fed Ex Express. Express will not accept packages from Ground so they sent it back to the factory. The Ground and Express offices are two blocks apart and each told me the other had the package for me to pick up. Never did get the package.
(this was not the brilliant rant.)
One of the options on the Apple Store website is to pick up the package at the local office, but only after the first attempt at delivery is made.
I met a guy who worked for some division, affiliate, or subsidiary of a Big Computer Company. They needed new computers in that division, but the Big Computer Company had no mechanism in place to essentially deliver its own computers to itself. This guy quit and set up a small business to buy the computers from the Big Computer Company and sell them (at a markup) to the division. Apparently, he did ok for himself.
Yes. But as the OP stated, that costs you a day of waiting for a failed delivery (in some areas, the trucks return early enough that you can go there and pick it up the same day, but don’t count on it)
True, but he’s wasted a lot more time with the failed delivery to the local Fedex office.
Hello, I’m a Mac.
And I’m a PC.
Need a little help, PC. One of my guys got lost because of one of your guys.
Sorry. Not possible.
But I’m telling you. That’s what happened. See, your computers can’t communicate between two buildings a block apart…
Sounds like a software problem to me. Or a networking issue. Did anyone call a tech?
Well see, if they’d had Macs, they could just plug them in and they’d start talking to each other.
Maybe your lost one is calling you right now.
Actually he is. Would you like to speak to him?
No, not really. I don’t know how. Remember how long it took to hook me up to you?
Yes I do. But what about the customer who doesn’t have his Mac?
Maybe you should run your iRescue software.
Actually, there’s no such thing as iRescue.
Well, you should have thought of that. You’ve got iThis and iThat. It’s not my fault you were shortsighted.
So you’re saying it’s my fault that your PCs lost my Mac.
That’s right. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to figure out how to call my office.
You can’t even call your own office?
Of course not. They’re on a whole different protocol. Good luck with your little friend.
Maybe I need some uFuckedUp software.
Maybe you do.
Asshole.
Wimp.
Brilliant! 
Made me laugh after 15 minutes on hold with Apple, waiting to see if the can change the shipping address on the laptop they haven’t sent yet. I’m not hopeful
And then while I was picking it up at their office, they broke into my house, stole my television, pooped in my toilet and didn’t flush, ate that slice of cake I was saving, painted swastikas on my bedroom walls, and molested my cat. Bastards should burn in hell.
Lib, I love you. (I just got back from the ER after falling and breaking my dominant arm, so things like this to cheer me up from my self-pitying are lovely. That was a note-perfect parody.)
Yeah. Learning by experience is a bit of a bitch.