FedEx delivers early!?!

[Sirius Glass]

I ordered lens filters from Adorama and FedEx delivered them a day early. I ordered a lens from KEH and FedEx delivered it two days early. I am getting dizzy. Please advise!

 

[DWThomas]

Hehe, methinks the folks behind the shipments have learned it's better to be conservative in their promises and then beat the deadline. I've gone into restaurants and been told "30 minute wait" and then barely checked my phone messages when we get summoned to be seated. It always feels like "wow, we got lucky!"

 

[MattKing]

Hehe, methinks the folks behind the shipments have learned it's better to be conservative in their promises and then beat the deadline. I've gone into restaurants and been told "30 minute wait" and then barely checked my phone messages when we get summoned to be seated. It always feels like "wow, we got lucky!"

I bet many of those restaurants also offered "If you would like to wait in the bar.......?"

 

[mshchem]

Now that FedEx doesn't have to haul all the Amazon CRAP there's room for important stuff like used cameras and film.

 

[Don_ih]

It'll be truly shocking when they start delivering before you order anything.

 

[Alan9940]

Yeah, I've definitely noticed recently that delivery has gotten crazy fast! I bought a box of dry plates and a holder recently from a seller in Solvenia, shipped to me DHL Express, and I got the package in 3 days! And, I'm talking DHL!!

 

[GRHazelton]

;However....I read all the "praise" for FedEx and note that those folks left a package, in the rain, under a sign on our garage door asking that packages be left on the front porch, which offers shelter from the prevailing wind and rain. I tell folks shipping to me to avoid FedEx.

 

[DWThomas]

I bet many of those restaurants also offered "If you would like to wait in the bar.......?"

You betcha!

 

[leicaboss]

It'll be truly shocking when they start delivering before you order anything.

I wouldn't mind, as long as they don't charge

 

[Tel]

It'll be truly shocking when they start delivering before you order anything.

Probably not shocking. Their AS (artificial stupidity) software will send you a dozen more of the exact same thing you already received.

 

[glbeas]

;However....I read all the "praise" for FedEx and note that those folks left a package, in the rain, under a sign on our garage door asking that packages be left on the front porch, which offers shelter from the prevailing wind and rain. I tell folks shipping to me to avoid FedEx.

Some drivers lack any common sense. I had several who would walk past the covered carport to leave a package at the top of the steps to our uncovered front deck in the rain. Thats either malicious or quite dense. That quit after I hung my sign for them.

 

[jvo]

take 2 aspirin, call me in the morning if you not feeling better!

 

[abruzzi]

at my current home, USPS is the best shipper, but I've found that when people say FedEx sucks and UPS is good, or UPS sucks and FedEx is good, it tends to be a very local phenomenon. When I lived if Philadelphia, UPS was completely unusable, I had packages returned to sender without a single door tag. Here in my town in New Mexico, UPS is usually pretty good. FedEx is pretty equal to UPS, but USPS is the most reliable (partly because USPS has no home delivery here--everything goes to a PO box, so they don't have to drive around to deliver.)

 

[Sirius Glass]

Some drivers lack any common sense. I had several who would walk past the covered carport to leave a package at the top of the steps to our uncovered front deck in the rain. Thats either malicious or quite dense. That quit after I hung my sign for them.

We have had a sign up for twenty years and they still run up an unnecessary flight of steps to deliver it to a door most people in the building never use.

 

[Sirius Glass]

at my current home, USPS is the best shipper, but I've found that when people say FedEx sucks and UPS is good, or UPS sucks and FedEx is good, it tends to be a very local phenomenon. When I lived if Philadelphia, UPS was completely unusable, I had packages returned to sender without a single door tag. Here in my town in New Mexico, UPS is usually pretty good. FedEx is pretty equal to UPS, but USPS is the most reliable (partly because USPS has no home delivery here--everything goes to a PO box, so they don't have to drive around to deliver.)

When UPS got into claiming that they attempted to deliver never leaving a tag and did that repeatedly, I filed complaints at the local office, the Los Angeles center office, the regional office and the national office repeatedly in machine gun fashion and did not stop until they corrected the problem. They may not have liked getting papered but polite calls just resulted in my having to pay for the shipping again for bad results.

 

[abruzzi]

I just stopped buying from companies that shipped UPS, and I told them why repeatedly.

 

[Alan9940]

When UPS got into claiming that they attempted to deliver never leaving a tag and did that repeatedly,

Good 'ole USPS does this very thing 'round these parts. Recently, I was expecting a package from overseas and I watched the mail carrier at our boxes until done (large picture window from my living room has a direct view), then I strolled out to get the mail after she left. Imagine my surprise and dimension of PISSED OFF I was when I found a slip saying, "Sorry, we tried to deliver but you weren't there." Really?! The carriers get mad when you walk up to them while they're delivering, but from now on when the tracking shows that a package is to be delivered, I'm going right out before s/he leaves.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Good 'ole USPS does this very thing 'round these parts. Recently, I was expecting a package from overseas and I watched the mail carrier at our boxes until done (large picture window from my living room has a direct view), then I strolled out to get the mail after she left. Imagine my surprise and dimension of PISSED OFF I was when I found a slip saying, "Sorry, we tried to deliver but you weren't there." Really?! The carriers get mad when you walk up to them while they're delivering, but from now on when the tracking shows that a package is to be delivered, I'm going right out before s/he leaves.

Call the Postal Inspector at 866 644 5696 and file a complaint. That will get the attention of the carrier, the supervisor and the postmaster at your post office.

 

[shutterfinger]

FedEx was good the first 6 months I lived here then they became Failed X as the packages for this address were/are 3 days to 8 days late and they have left packages for other addresses in the general area more than once. Last February I ordered a Purple Mattress and it was shipped FedEx. It arrived 3 days later at the distribution center at 8AM on a Saturday. They continually showed a Delivery Delay on the tracking web site until Wednesday when I asked Purple if I would get it before the 30th. About 4 hours later it was dumped at my door.
USPS is quite good in the area, frequently a day early.
A area/personnel specific experience for both delivery companies.
Prime and UPS vesicles frequently block the area streets.

 

[Sirius Glass]

FedEx was good the first 6 months I lived here then they became Failed X as the packages for this address were/are 3 days to 8 days late and they have left packages for other addresses in the general area more than once. Last February I ordered a Purple Mattress and it was shipped FedEx. It arrived 3 days later at the distribution center at 8AM on a Saturday. They continually showed a Delivery Delay on the tracking web site until Wednesday when I asked Purple if I would get it before the 30th. About 4 hours later it was dumped at my door.
USPS is quite good in the area, frequently a day early.
A area/personnel specific experience for both delivery companies.
Prime and UPS vesicles frequently block the area streets.

Sometimes a swift kick in the ass is needed with some delivery companies.

 

[cmacd123]

most of those problems come from either missed driver training, or the premises not fitting any rules in the manual. A Manual that has proably not be revised since the Carriers changed the policy to do a safe drop, instead of asking for a signature because of COVID. I am fortunate in that there is no other place other than the front door, under a porch, suitable to leave packages.

 

[Sirius Glass]

most of those problems come from either missed driver training, or the premises not fitting any rules in the manual. A Manual that has proably not be revised since the Carriers changed the policy to do a safe drop, instead of asking for a signature because of COVID. I am fortunate in that there is no other place other than the front door, under a porch, suitable to leave packages.

When packages are heavy, the driver is too lazy to take the package to the door and ring the bell. So to save time and energy, the skip hanging the door tag and mark it as an attempted delivery. I know I caught him. I stopped the driver, showed him I have caught it all on my camera and that if he did that again he would be fired. He got off his fat ass, picked up the box, took the box to the door, range the bell, I let him in, he took the elevator and deposited the package at the door. Two weeks later he pulled the same stunt and I sent both videos to the local office, the city office, the regional office, the national office, Channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13. That got the problem fixed.