Fed Ex can't ship to Fed Ex?

[ShibbOleth]

@whistlepig

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.

Why didn’t you just have it sent to your work?

[Duckster]

You mean to tell me that FedEx will not just drop off your package even if you are not at home? They do it all the time with me (including UPS), regardless that a signature may be required.

We got so disgusted with FedEx (and UPS), that we now ship strictly with USPS. Our local postal driver will never drop off a package unless we are home. If it cannot be delivered, we always have a note to pick it up the next day at the local post office. No extra charge for anything.

[drachillix]

@Little Nemo

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.

Of course if you had bought a pc, none of this would have happened. All part of the Dell/Fedex/Bestbuy conspiracy.

And your cat moaned like a whore as we ravaged her.

Regards,
Your local PC builder

[SiouxChief]

@ShibbOleth

Why didn’t you just have it sent to your work?

He works at Fed-Ex.

I’m hoping.

[whistlepig]

@SiouxChief

He works at Fed-Ex.

I’m hoping.

Shipping personal packages to my work location is not allowed.
Duckster, your answer was much, much earlier in the thread.

[Shagnasty]

@whistlepig

I called, because I did receive my package (finally) and wanted to give some props to the local staff for stopping the local loading line to find my package. they were cool.

nobody at fed ex had heard of lola or her extension number. After 10 minutes of being on hold and getting shuttled around I hung up.

i have my MacBook Pro, which should mean I can quit typing without pressing the broken Shift key to make capitol letters.

whistlepig

Christmas week 1994, Fed Ex suffered its largest vehicle fleet loss in company history. A group of FexEx trucks slid down an icy bridge. One of the lead trucks swerved to avoid hitting a cat at the bottom of the hill. The truck plunged into frigid water and sank. The driver swam to safety but a coworker who was just hitching a ride on the truck was caught under a flotilla of packages and drowned. Here name was Lola and customers in distress often get calls from her offering her assistance. She is like the patron saint of FedEx but employees are forbidden from acknowledging her existence to customers. She helps packages in distress become united with their owner from beyond the grave.

[aptronym]

Can’t you convince/bribe your workplace to accept a package for you? Even if it’s technically prohibited, you could probably buddy-up with the warehouse guys or the receptionist to make an exception for you just this once.

[Little_Nemo]

Christmas week 1994, Fed Ex suffered its largest vehicle fleet loss in company history. A group of FexEx trucks slid down an icy bridge. One of the lead trucks swerved to avoid hitting a cat at the bottom of the hill.

Okay, this explains the institutional hostility towards cats. But what’s their problem with John McCrea?

[Duckster]

@whistlepig

Duckster, your answer was much, much earlier in the thread.

Ah, I think not. I’ve had things shipped to me via FedEx and UPS that specifically required a signature upon delivery. I’m not home but they don’t leave a ticket. They just leave the package, even though a signature is required, no ifs ands or buts.

I’ve yet to have a USPS package delivered like that. If I don’t have a choice, my FedEx and UPS packages come to me at work. When I have a choice, I pick USPS because they don’t will-nilly the game plan.

[DrDeth]

@brazil84

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?

Which means you are doing the delivery and paying a premium price to boot? :rolleyes: No thanks.

[Madd_Maxx]

@drachillix

And your cat moaned like a whore as we ravaged her.

Regards,
Your local PC builder

This made me laugh uncomfortably.

[shijinn]

i see suggestions for sending it to the workplace, leaving post-its on the door, even leaving the package outside the door but no one suggested neighbours. they can be handy you know?

[whistlepig]

It’s not over yet.

I received notice that it had shipped on the 24th. Today (26th) I checked Fed Ex’s website and found out that “Package Data was given to Fed Ex” but nothing on where the package actually is. So I called Apple for the 6th time and after 20 minutes and being forwarded three times I found out:

No one knows where the Macbook Pro is. Apple and Fed Ex both lost the data.

I now have to wait until January 2nd to see if I get it. If it isn’t here then, I have to file a claim and they will ship me a new one. That will be 26 days after I first ordered it and 13 days after I shipped the broken one back.

And I still won’t have a Macbook Pro.

[mnemosyne]

@Sunspace

I try to have everything shipped by Canada Post. They’ll try to deliver it around noon; I’ll be at work; and the next day it’ll show up at the local post office, conveniently-located in a plaza five minutes’ walk from my apartment. I hate when there’s no option for Canada Post. FedEx or UPS, I have to go to some distribution centre in a scuzzy area halfway across town.

Unless, of course, you live in Charlottetown, PEI. In which case when someone sends you something via Canada Post, it will show up in tracking software as having been delivered the very next day (in as little as 2 hours, one time!) and yet you will never, ever receive it, or even a little sticker on the door stating that they pretended to have delivered it. It will just be lost in the ether, never to be seen again.

In the past 20 months, since my sister moved out to PEI, FOUR different packages have gone missing, and at least 3 were significantly late (3-5 day deliveries showing up 3 weeks after shipping).

Canada Post has been good about giving refunds for the lost items, but it still means a hassle for the shipper, and the shippee, since both parties have to call to confirm that the package in question never made it to its destination. Which of course must be done during regular daytime hours, which gets a little tough when everyone works/is in school and there is a timezone difference!

We ordered our wedding invitations online once, and they were shipped by Purolator. The company was great in notifying us that it was shipped (within 12 hours of us sending in the order, it was fantastic!), but after that, of course, it was out of their hands. After a week, we were very concerned (Winnipeg isn’t THAT far from Hamilton!), and called the originating company to get the Purolator tracking number. Going to the Purolator website, we discover that one delivery attempt had been made, and the package was sitting in their warehouse and would be returned to sender the very next day. We were actually home at the time of the supposed delivery attempt. We received no notice of delivery, no phone call, no email, nothing. Purolator made ZERO attempt to contact us. When we did, they wouldn’t deliver it to us, but we had to go pick it up, across town, at 7am (due to our work schedules). It was insane. I will never EVER use Purolator if I can avoid it!