This is messed up!!

[S42N8]

The worst one for me was with DHL. $20k of diagnostic electronics left at the door, when package was supposed to be held for two days due to an emergency trip. Signature for customs broker and shipper were both required, and the delivery person left it outside anyway - on a package that shouldn't have been on the truck in the first place.


I came back to torrential rain and no equipment. Package gone. DHL swore that they had retrieved it, as requested, but couldn't find it in their system.


At the end of a full day of carving out new orifices (orifii?) over the phone, a cute new Mommy from two town homes over came by with my package. She had seen it getting soaked, and had taken it in to be neighborly.

Not to be contrary, but you did have a cute Mommy (literally) deliver the goods. That's better than most deliveries at my door. Just sayin'

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

I hear ya... that is messed up.

That said...
Waiting on an overnight package for three days (after tracking showed it delivered on day one) without checking the front porch scores pretty high too.

 

[venomballistics]

I hear ya... that is messed up.

That said...
Waiting on an overnight package for three days (after tracking showed it delivered on day one) without checking the front porch scores pretty high too.

Yeah, I think we forfeit the right to gripe about laziness when we, ourselves are.

 

[SW MP15]

So you've got a gun inbound and you're tracking it.........

Tracking shows it delivered, but nobody in the house knows anything about it........

Yet you wait three days to check the seldom used front door...........

You're right that is messed up

I took "adult signature required" as it was supposed to mean! Not deliverable to any place on the property, that they could put it??? I understood it to mean, it would be handed to an adult and signed for? But maybe I don't understand common written English?

 

[old bear]

O/P you are right it was/is messed up. But understand FedEx don't give a rat's *** and neither does the driver. So be happy ya got your Colt back, and move on.

 

[LVSteve]

My best "incident" was with UPS. They claimed I refused delivery of a camera at a particular time and date when I was 13 miles away giving a presentation to several unimpeachable witnesses.

 

[donmateo25]

Odd...FedEx has always been a stickler for me. In fact, I always get the "delivered before 8pm" and they consistently come at 2-3PM (when everyone is at school/work) and then tell me if I'm not home 2 more days, it will be returned to sender. I've often had to cancel obligations or drive to bumble hell to the FedEx store to get something. Go figure. I like UPS a lot better.

 

[pinto]

With FEDEX packages I always have them held for pickup.
Same with UPS.

 

[rwsmith]

Telling or writing

Driver came in and apologized and said he couldn't find my house. I said please read the comments next time - my cell phone number is on their twice. Signed and walked out. Next day I got a call to take a automated survey. I just laughed and hung up.

With a lot of people they don't listen and they don't read instructions.

Classic example: We were severely trimming down a storeroom and I sent two memos out well ahead of time saying that if you wanted anything in the storeroom, to take it out because when I got the workers to clear it out the stuff was gone. The day came to clear out the storeroom and two guys mosey in and say, "Why are you throwing this stuff away?" I told them they couldn't read and if they wanted anything they'd better get it and stay out of the way of the workers.

People don't listen, they do what they wanted to hear and if it's anything different from what they've been doing, it won't get done.

 

[ErnieDeBord]

Well, I gots to know.................how did the work on the "Colt" turn out? regards Ernie

 

[rog8732]

For sure, FedEx has not been the same since we lost ole Chuck Noland and "Wilson" on that island for such a long time.

A delivery company that can't get a volleyball delivered correctly is "in over it's head", and way too inefficient to be hauling Colts around !

 

[Vulcan Bob]

At least you got the gun back from Colt.

 

[Aticus]

I work for usps and our scanners will not accept a delivered event without something in the signature block. Go back to the site and see if they have a view signature option. Our site gives you the ability to see who signed for it.

Chuck, I know that UPS has that also. I had a driver sign for a package when my front door was open. I saw the signature and it wasn't even legible.

Some of this can be attributed to the shipping company refusing to pay overtime and insisting their drivers deliver all packages within an 8 hour day.


Edit ti add:

I know it doesn't help but could your FedEx driver be a contractor? I had a neighbor who worked for a contractor who delivered for FedEx. When they finished their route they got to go home and got paid for a full day. What a country!