Fedex ammo experience...

[santahog]

Ordered some ammo a week + ago and last Tuesday I got an email saying that I (J. Watson) had signed for the package. Only trouble was, I hadn't...
I called and began wading into them and about 45 minutes after the email, Fedex, (a contractor) shows up. I started asking him some very hard questions, as I was still on hold with Fedex. The drivers answer was basically "Look, I just work here"..
I knew I wouldn't get any appropriate attention dealing with the matter unless I told them what was in the box, and that did seem to raise some hackles. The wrong answer they related to me was that the sender wasn't shipping ammo on the proper type of account... Really...
Called (Wideners) and let them know and had them put "UPS Only" on my account.
I've never had good experience with Fedex. Just relating an bad experience..
Oh, by the way, I had some more stuff delivered via Fedex the following day and the (different) driver immediately asked me what was in the box...
Aside from actually getting my ammo, NOTHING GOOD came out of the experience...
Here's hoping UPS gets a little more business, and a happy new year!!!

[tombogan03884]

Did you ever think of this.
UPS never delivers "bad" mail, bill's junk, court summons etc. what they bring is something you want.
With that in mind their colors should be "happy" colors.
The guy who thought that shade of brown qualified as a "happy" color must have been constipated.

[Big Frank]

My most recent experience with FedEx went like this. I got a package from them with my free box of ammo and mag for my LCP. Maybe two weeks later FedEx put a sticker on my front door saying they left a package on my back porch, my preferred delivery location. My package was stolen while I was still in bed. UPS always delivers after I get up and rings the doorbell but FedEx delivers early in the morning and just leaves things there. I didn't recognize the name of the company it came from, someone or other Graphics Company. I called FedEx and told them I didn't get my package from whoever it was. They told me to contact that company so I did by email and told them my package was stolen but I didn't remember ordering anything from them in the first place. They said they would send a new package no charge and that I would have to sign for it. I told them I would pay them to ship it UPS instead of FedEx but they wouldn't go for it. Meanwhile I figured out that the company in question was the one that sent my free ammo and mag earlier. They sent a second package and that was what was stolen. They were getting ready to send me a third package when I told them I already got the first one. What a fustercluck that was.

[Timothy]

Fed Ex has also teamed with the USPS for delivering small parcels.  I don't like that but you have no choice when the shipping is free.

[alfsauve]

Fed Ex has also teamed with the USPS for delivering small parcels.  I don't like that but you have no choice when the shipping is free.

Actually UPS and FedEx have both teamed with USPS for small packages.  UPS/FedEX gets it to town then dumps it with USPS.  It makes total sense.  USPS visits every address everyday (except Sundays).  Why send a big truck out to a home address for something little?   The bonus is occasionally you'll get something on Saturday that had the UPS/FedEX delivered it themselves it wouldn't have come till Monday.

I think it shows creativeness for somebody at USPS to be able to strike a deal like this.  Sadly I'm sure that person will probably get fired for thinking outside the box.

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[alfsauve]

Whenever powder or primers come FedEx it's a hit or miss on whether it gets delivered.

Sometimes they won't accept a pre-signed door slip but make me (not my wife) sign for it in person.  And if I  miss them totally I  have to wait 4 days before I can pick it up at the distro center.   Other times they drop it off without a signature.   Go figure.

At least with UPS, I can leave a signed note on the door and they'll leave the package.

USPS would be better for me, because my mailman is a shooter and sees to it that I get my stuff.  He knows he can drive down the driveway whenever he has bullets.    If I'm home, sometimes I even open the package to show him what came.   

[Big Frank]

Once FedEx came by when I wasn't home and I asked where I could pick up my package before I went on vacation. I had to drive 40 miles each way to pick it up in another city. When I go to the UPS distribution center it's a 5 mile drive. Just one more reason I like UPS better. I also had one package that UPS shipped to the post office who delivered it. No problems with that one either. I checked online and FedEx is supposed to have a place a little bit closer than UPS but I never saw it when I was in the neighborhood. Hmm.

[Timothy]

I tried to ship a gift from MA to KY. A few weeks ago, a coffee cup!  UPS wanted twenty bucks for ground service...  The cup cost less so I went USPS for a few dollars.  I hate the lot of them...

[TAB]

i have had really good luck with smaller carriers like GSO, ontrac  etc etc.   generally faster, and cheaper.  but they are tipically regional.

[ellis4538]

I had a bad experience with Fed. Ex!  They delivered a generator to someone up the street and delivered a book to me!  How the tags got switched I will never know!  Lucky for me the guy that got my generator was honest!  Not a big fan of Fed. Ex.!

Richard