Check out the shipping history for some Moab 3's I bought from the Merrill website. Six days to go 186 miles. Hilarious.
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Fedex is amazing, and that's not a good thing.
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Around here they just drop it off at any house. I always see Facebook local ads asking whose front door their package is sitting in front of.
Well, to be fair and Im not defending Fed Ex but one needs to know the company you purchased from is using the cheapest, contract service FedEx offers to companies that also then transfers to the USPS for the "last mile" so its not a FedEx truck that will bring your package.
That is what "FedEx Smartpost"is. (AKA as FedEx ground economy)
That is what "FedEx Smartpost"is. (AKA as FedEx ground economy)
He doesn't have Fed Ex home delivery as I posted above. He will not have a FedEx truck at his house.
I didn't need them right away so I opted for the no cost Fedex shipping option, which I usually avoid and gladly pay extra for UPS.
At any rate, free shipping or not I find it hard to justify Fedex's meandering path. All that's doing is costing them more to get it to me.
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The service you describe….interestingly a cd subscription that I have had maybe 6 years now, used to use the UPS version. Now they just use UPS (the shipper is Warner Elektra). I wonder if a lot of deliveries were lost? I only didn’t get it 1x and it’s 4x per year so maybe 24+ deliveries…
I may be confused here. Are you saying I don't have Fedex home delivery? If so, I do, and they're the purple trucks not the green ones. Sometimes I have non-urgent orders shipped to me via Fedex. They always arrive in one of their purple, UPS sized vans.
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Im not sure but I see "Smart Post" in your OP
FedEx SmartPost
FedEx SmartPost® is a contract-only service that helps to consolidate low weight packages and deliver to residences. These packages also consume less time-and are sensitive business-to-consumer packages."FedEx picks up, sorts, line hauls, and tracks and delivers your packages to the United States Postal Service® (USPS) post office closest to you. The USPS makes final delivery to the residence."
https://www.fedex.com/us/developer/webhelp/fsms/2020/DVG/US/Global/FedEx_SmartPost.htm
and below is another of what I was saying, it seems based on your OP that is how the company sent you the item.
https://mypostofficelocation.com/resources/what-is-fedex-smartpost/#What-Is-FedEx-SmartPost
Well, you seem to know more about it than I do @alarmguy - and I'm not throwing stones. If my shoes happen to arrive when I'm home to see it, I'll update this thread.
But once again, the meandering path my shoes are taking seems like it would cost more. I hope the soles on those things aren't worn out by the time I get them! Haha!
It's all good,
Scott
Edit: I neglected to mention that my original arrival date was supposed to be today, the 20th. That's why I checked the order status.
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USPS still takes the incompetence trophy. I ordered a small package of brake line clips from a guy in Florida 10 days ago. Still waiting...
My parts were at my local post office on the 14th. Then they were off to Baton Rouge. They made it back to San Antonio, but are now in Omaha.
Good thing I don't need the parts right now.
My parts were at my local post office on the 14th. Then they were off to Baton Rouge. They made it back to San Antonio, but are now in Omaha.
Good thing I don't need the parts right now.
China Post manages to deliver standard air mail from Guangzhou to me in 5 to 6 days. Half of that time is spent in the US on custom clearance and 400 miles. The tracking is timely until the USPS takes over. The USPS recently lost a document that I sent from Marin to Berkeley.
I'm with you on this one. My latest "huh?" moment with USPS was last week. Ordered a package to go to family in northern Indiana that originated in Florida. When it was finally picked up, it stopped in Indianapolis, then went to Bedford Park, IL. That made sense, kind of, since I know they have a huge processing center there. But...it left there to go about 40 miles west to the Fox Valley, IL, facility (i.e., farther away from its destination), then came back to Gary, IN, and finally found its way to the local PO for delivery. The hops it made after Bedford Park make absolutely no sense to me, but I don't work for the USPS so I guess it shouldn't.
Aside from the lost document, these meandering USPS routes aren't because of the postal workers driving their little Grumman delivery trucks through our neighborhoods. It's the shipping/logistics software on USPS's computers that's the problem. It analogous to someone driving 30 miles to save 50 cents on a gallon of milk - but spending $10 on gas to save that 50 cents.
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I have a FedEx account, I have standing orders (AKA delivery instructions) to leave it in a specific place. They NEVER do. Also recently had a hold order which was “Accepted”. They sat it front and center of the front porch. I used to have very good service elsewhere, so I think my driver is pretty much worthless… any how fed ex still has never delivered me anything with actual truck tracks on it ( Hi UPS) …
That, and, likely to save from having to rent/create warehouse space to store mail enroute. I remember tracking a package in 2020 or 2021 that took a nice road trip through most of northern Indiana and the only thing I could think of to explain that is that there was no space at a facility but there was on a truck so it went off it its own Magical Mystery Tour.
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