I pit FedEx for having a system that E-mails you when your package will be delivered and offers options such as “We can schedule the delivery to a time of your preference” (for a fee), but doesn’t bother telling you if the package needs a signature or not. I don’t want to pay a fee to change the delivery date and time, or have to bother driving to a FedEx/Kinko’s out of my way (although there’s no fee for that option), if the deliverer can just leave the box on my doorstep.
What chaps my ass is when I have a USPS delivery that requires a signature but the mailman doesn’t bother trying to deliver it to my door. Especially around xmas time. I want my presents now, goddamnit!
I have found FedEx to require signature much more often than UPS, not sure if that’s the sender’s fault or FedEx’s fault. Maybe the default on a FedEx shipment is signature required.
I know it’s enough of a pain that I’ve written Amazon asking them not to deliver by FedEx, and when they couldn’t accommodate that I just had my packages delivered to my work address.
Yep. Fedex knows the only the shippers pay them, so us receivers can go pound sand, unless we pay up- (for a fee).
I have specified on both Amazon and eBay that I do not want anything shipped by Fedex and I prefer USPS.
Can’t you call FedEx and ask them if your package needs a signature?
Sure, if you know how to speak Hindu.
Or, if by chance you don’t speak the mandatory Hindu :rolleyes:,
you can always look up your tracking number online, and it will tell you if a signature is required or not.
Hey, let me just do a shout out to my pals at UPS who, when asked to return a package to Suite 106 of Company C, decided to deliver to Suite 100 of Company C instead, and also to the guys in Suite 100 who, when an expensive item shows up, apparently don’t have brains to walk it over to Suite 106. So some rather expensive equipment sits around for a week and a half instead of being credited to my credit card.
That’s a couple of hours worth of phone tag I didn’t want to participate in this morning.
How do you look up your tracking number without…knowing your tracking number?
How does he know he’s getting a package then? When I get emails from FedEx, it includes the tracking number. When I order from Amazon, they give me the tracking number.
Besides, the OP didn’t say he didn’t have the tracking number, he just said the email didn’t contain the information on whether or not he needed to sign for it.
I looked it up online, but didn’t notice anywhere where it said if a signature was required or not.
Under “Shipment Facts” there is a field that says “Signature Services” If you need to sign for it, it will say there.