saltysarge

You can keep FedEx. I swear some of there drivers can't read. I only use UPS or USPS.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Planes are pretty fast. : )

When I follow a package online, it's easy to tell if it's traveling by air or ground. I see how long it takes to get from the west coast to the east. Sometimes, it will leave on a Monday morning, and there is no more activity for several days. Then I know it's riding cross country in a truck.

Catnlion Loc: Arizona City, Arizona

The wife and I are a long haul truck driving team. One of our favorite runs was hauling AIR FREIGHT from Chicago to Miami.

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

I am also an ebayer, different accounts for buyer and seller. I've had a few USPS packages get a bit smushed, but otherwise OK. I'vee had quite a few Fedex boxes that look like an angry robot dog got to them. How hard do you drop a bubble wrapped lebs in a box to knock that small glass lens out the bottom? I had a go around with one supplier- three day priority Fedex. Two weeks later- it;s still on the truck. They told the shipper I had a bad address change; and they'd tell me it was on it's way. It was delivered to the wrong address three times. It was lost in their Carson office for a week. it was finally returned to the shipper. They had broken the box and ripped the label, and said nothing. So when they read the label qrong, they updated my Fedex account with the wrong address, even tho my ebay and Paypal info never changed. After the shipper and I exchanged the email logs from Fedex we realized how bogus they are are, and he kindly sent me another product.
Fedex. Many of their drivers are contractors. They buy the trucks, Fedex subsidizes them per services rendered, and they pick up and deliver. Here in Los Angeles, that driver may have another day job, and someone else gets to deliver the packages he picked up. Regulations were changed: a driver doesn't have to be a citizen, nor speak English, as Google Maps works anyway.
After more than a few broken open and badly retaped boxes, broken lenses, dented hard drives and a folded up laptop, I have Fedex deliver to a shipping node a mile from me, and I pick them up there. That works for me.

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

Ahhh! I forgot one thing. I've also been a certified IT Tech, and I get to test beta software, get discounts, etc from Microsoft. EVERY time they Fedex something with that Microsoft return address, a fragile sticker, and a "media enclosed" print on it, it comes to my door- ripped taped and empty. Every time.

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

I just received a computer shipped by UPS.
All the corners were crumpled. *sigh*
I open the box- the shipper had wrapped it in bubble wrap. But no tape, so half the unit was out, and all the bubble wrap was piled up on the other end.
I *just* notified the shipper it was DOA.
We shall see.

usken65

Well just go to the store next time and stop crying.

alby Loc: very eastern pa.

fedex ain't what it used to be.... lots of new managers that have NO clue what goes on..... lots of owner operator contractors that don't give a crap... facts, not fake news