FedEx Problems Coming!!!!

[Cities n Dust]

Well,
I have known for quite some time that Federal Express & FedEx Ground are merging into 1 singular company. Not that they were never 1 company but air and ground are separate by definition. So instead of a Fedex ground guy picking up ground only he will also pick up air shipments as well. I'll give you one example of problems to come. Today I was tasked to look into a FedEx Envelope that contained a check for purchase. It was sent Next day air to deliver by 10:30 am on Tuesday this week, the vendor called today and said no check that was promised on Tuesday morning. Big Problem as the item in question was needed by Saturday. After the 10 hrs on the phone I spent tracking this letter It finally delivered at 2 pm today, basically 3 full days late. After all the back and forth it turned out that a Fedex Ground driver was trying to deliver said letter after the company already closed. They close at 4 pm sharp. I SAID FEDEX GROUND tried to deliver an air shipment set at 10:30 am on ground delivery times which is till 6 pm in the evening.

Now being in the shipping business for as long as I have I can assure everyone that Air and Ground transport has increased by thousands of % since 1994 hence the issues we already have today. Think Amazon, Walmart and the Chinese connection with literally Millions of packages in the Pipeline around the world on a daily basis. This decision by FedEx to combine all in one is an experiment of monumental failure. Remember New Coke? Fedex has already started this and now the butterfly effects are showing. This is going to take years to get the FedEx ship righted. Do you remember Covid Shut down, it took over a year just to empty all of the Sea Container Ships waiting off our shores and that was our longshoreman working 24/7 each week.

Sad part is UPS cost more and takes longer. USPS absolutely is horrible. If FedEx has been bad for you in the past it's going to get even worse.

So if I were you for the time being I would avoid FedEx like a scorching case of Herpes!

Cities

 

[Greyman50]

Have not found ANY so called " next day", " over night" or any other such " delivery" to work as advertised.

 

[john17427]

Have not found ANY so called " next day", " over night" or any other such " delivery" to work as advertised.

Not anymore. My wife uses a good bit of overnight shipping related to her work. The work is time sensitive and they pretty much plan on two days for it to get there despite overnighting. The evolution with her work over the last ten years has been to try to do as little physical shipping as possible and do things electronically to the greatest extent. Looking at it in retrospect the changes have been massive and I expect shipping things physically (for her) will soon be a thing of the past. I think the situation with shipping is ripe for a paradigm shift. Amazon Express anyone?

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Have not found ANY so called " next day", " over night" or any other such " delivery" to work as advertised.

My dad would winter in warm weather (inside USA), He had daily reports overnighted to him every day. We rotated between UPS, FedEx, USPS, (DHL's first and only shipment was never seen again!) The good old US Mail was the most successful, getting it there in 24 hours, at about 50% of the time!

Before Overnight Delivery existed, we would send by regular mail to "General Delivery" at a town's main post office (early 1970's). By and large, Monday thru Thursday's mail arrived the next day in Florida and two days in Arizonia. We found it to be very bad to mail anything over a weekend or any sort of mid-week holiday!

Ivan

 

[Greyman50]

My dad would winter in warm weather (inside USA), He had daily reports overnighted to him every day. We rotated between UPS, FedEx, USPS, (DHL's first and only shipment was never seen again!) The good old US Mail was the most successful, getting it there in 24 hours, at about 50% of the time!

Before Overnight Delivery existed, we would send by regular mail to "General Delivery" at a town's main post office (early 1970's). By and large, Monday thru Thursday's mail arrived the next day in Florida and two days in Arizonia. We found it to be very bad to mail anything over a weekend or any sort of mid-week holiday!

Ivan

Back then there were folks that actually Worked......

 

[MelvinWalker]

A lot of it depends on where you live....Being just north of Tampa, which is a hub for USPS, Amazon, FedEx, etc, I rarely am expecting something next day that doesn't arrive when it says it will.

If I lived in Bootstrap, Arkansas, it would probably be different.

 

[Greyman50]

IIRC the usps was founded today back in 1700s......

 

[jdlii]

I recently sent a check to pay off our mortgage via UPS overnight and paid $128.00 for overnight delivery from TN to CA. The envelope did not get delivered until two full days later. Two weeks later, I received a call from the UPS store that I used for the overnight delivery and was told that I would be receiving a refund due to their failure to deliver the envelope on time.

Three days later I received an envelope containing a refund check in the amount of $98.00 and some change. That seemed fair in spite of the extra interest that accrued on the mortgage.

 

[Oldbird13]

I recently sent a check to pay off our mortgage via UPS overnight and paid $128.00 for overnight delivery from TN to CA. The envelope did not get delivered until two full days later. Two weeks later, I received a call from the UPS store that I used for the overnight delivery and was told that I would be receiving a refund due to their failure to deliver the envelope on time.

Three days later I received an envelope containing a refund check in the amount of $98.00 and some change. That seemed fair in spite of the extra interest that accrued on the mortgage.

Might have been better to send a wire transfer.