Why the fuck would FedEx give my package to the USPS?

[bicentennial_baby]

"Tendered to USPS for delivery"

:wtf:

I'm so mad I could spit right now. It was shipped a week ago, via FedEx ground, and now apparently the USPS has it. Fucking hell. Just give me my fucking yarn!

:banghead:

[arcadian]

1. BREAKING: FedEx guy found in ditch with knitting needles lodged in back.

No word on suspects. :P

[bicentennial_baby]

2. Correction: "cheap knitting needles that hadn't been used in years"

I'm not wasting my precious Addis on his ass.

I could strangle him with acrylic yarn too. Got tons of that that I'll never use. :D

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

3. Yeah, they've done that to me before

[bicentennial_baby]

6. Weird. And I doubt the post office would give me the package if I walked over there

Booooo.

[Richardo]

4. PO Box instead of address?

:shrug: I'm out.

[bicentennial_baby]

5. The post office is 2 blocks from my apartment

I've seen them deliver here before.

I'm not a happy camper. x(

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. They've done it to me and I have a house with a street address

The package was in limbo for over a week before I got it.

[bicentennial_baby]

15. Oh lord, I don't want to hear that...

x(

[AlCzervik]

7. that's weird.

normally fed ex delivers it's own packages.

[bicentennial_baby]

8. I just called the post office

Apparently this is common now. It's called "the last mile", and USPS and FedEx drop the packages at the PO. I live 2 fucking blocks from the post office. And no, I can't just come down and pick it up, I have to wait for them to deliver the package in person tomorrow.

I'm not pleased.

[AlCzervik]

9. now that is a pain in the ass. I can almost never get to the post office during their

business hours.

[Richardo]

10. I'd have a hard time paying FedEx's ridiculous charges if they're not going to complete the delivery

I'll ask our FedEx National Account Rep 'bout this shit. :grr:

[bicentennial_baby]

13. Good thing I bought enough to get free shipping

But man, I need this yarn to finish a project! So frustrating.

[Richardo]

17. bb: Apparently FedEx considers Boston 'extremely rural'

From: _________, Rich<ardo>
To: Andrew ______
Sent: Thu Feb 19 14:43:30 2009
Subject: Home Deliveries

Andrew – not related to <company> business, but are there instances where FedEx will hand off a shipment to the USPS for residential delivery?

Rich<ardo> ____________

Team Leader - Logistics
Houston, TX

From: Andrew ______
To: _________, Rich<ardo>

Subject: Home Deliveries

Only in extreme rural areas would we ever give pacakges to the USPS. These could include rural areas only serviced by PO boxes. Although we should not accept those in the first place.

I hope that helps.

Andrew

"I hope that helps" :eyes:

[bicentennial_baby]

18. I'm not in Boston proper, but I live in a city of

nearly 100,000 people. That is fucking ridiculous. I live next to the g-damn subway station! Rural, my ass. x(

[AlCzervik]

14. i totally agree with that, their rates are high and then for them to hand it off to another

shipper and it still requires you the paying customer to have to go and pick it up, no way.

[jobycom]

12. Maybe Homeland Security just gave it back to the wrong carrier after searching it.

(Yes, I read your answer post, but I had already scripted my reply and didn't want it to got to waste.)

[Spacemom]

16. Toys R Us did the same thing to us

It started out with UPS and this was transfered to USPS. A game for my son took 8 days to get here and they charged me $5 to ship it! Heck, if they had just shipped it priority mail with the post office, it would have been here in 2-3 days and cost half as much! :mad:

[tigereye]

19. yeah i had some trouble with Fed Ex just after Christmas - it was odd

usually there's no problem. I prefer UPS though, the guy seems to visit our house all too frequently.

[Ikonoklast]

20. "I prefer UPS though, the guy seems to visit our house all too frequently. "

Not gonna touch that one.


:spank: :rofl:

[tigereye]

22. no, not for those reasons!

wiseacre.... no the Bukowski-quoting mailman was the one I briefly had a crush on.

[sniffa]

21. I can't believe you didn't update this thread

Bi-Baby left a rather large note on the mailbox asking the mailman to please ring the buzzer. She even wrote, "thank you."

The mailman just put a slip in our box telling her the package was too big to fit in the box and to pick it up on 2/20 or later at the area post office.

This is not the first time and she's going to complain. I think she should go right to the top and contact the Post Master General.

[Bombero1956]

23. Fed-Ex calls it Smartpost

I've bought stuff from Woot in the past and they've sent some smaller items to me that way. I really like some Woot items but having to wait so long to get it has deterred me from buying from them.

[DeepBlueC]

24. Smartass Post

I call it.