Fed ex sucks!!!

[QweziRider]

Bull freaking crap. I’ve been home since 7am.

I'm with ya on that one. Had a package coming last week. Live in a high snow prone area, but it hadn't snowed for at least three days and I made sure the driveway was nothing more than an inch thick packed snow good drive. I saw the truck come into the neighborhood and knew it would be here in ten minutes or so (I know their pattern). To avoid the driver getting hurt on ice, I even walked down the long driveway to take delivery. Here comes the truck down out street, there it goes blasting past me without looking or slowing. Next thing I know, my phone has a text saying delivery was postponed until the next day due to local weather conditions. BS!!!!!

Took me an HOUR to reach the local office (they love to be unfindable by phone) to complain. Another hour later, the driver was back, silent.

 

[Salicete]

Shop brick and mortar; you won't have these problems.

If you don't, the "real" music shops will eventually be a thing of the past.

Yes, some of you can't because of geography, and I do sometimes buy online too, but I keep my dollars local whenever possible.

BACK ON TOPIC:

I own a business that ships items out (many-many) every day, and receives just as much, and my firsthand experience is that UPS is marginally better than FedEx, in both reliability and care of your items.

Frankly, out MOST reliable and cost effective shipper is the US Postal Service.

Who else can you hand fifty-cents on the East Coast and say, "have this envelope in California for me in the next few days, please," and have it happen.

 

[MrLenny1]

I have them deliver at work.

 

[murphy]

Seems equal dissatisfaction between UPS and Fed Ex

I have been both lucky and unlucky with both...depending on which part of the city I live

 

[murphy]

Frankly, out MOST reliable and cost effective shipper is the US Postal Service.

I resolved to only ship USPS/Canada post and have never had a problem with them

 

[Wiremessiah]

That has nothing to do with shipping. Ebay is biased toward the buyer, so if you did not get your $200 back it's your fault. It is easy to request a refund.

really? seems like every dispute I have had on either end favors the seller, at least the sale

 

[dbsfgyd1]

Worst ship in the shipping business

But.. ‘if you absolutely have to get irritated over night”....they’re your guys (or girls, or non gender aligned)...

 

[StereoPlayer]

So ya order something online. You wait all damn day for the fed ex driver to show up. 5 o’clock in the afternoon you check the status and it says “customer unavailable”.
Bull freaking crap. I’ve been home since 7am. This morning. This is an every time thing with fed ex here. They suck

No offense to you and sorry you had problems.

Ran across these today.

 

[Nephilymbass]

Shop brick and mortar; you won't have these problems.

If you don't, the "real" music shops will eventually be a thing of the past.

Yes, some of you can't because of geography, and I do sometimes buy online too, but I keep my dollars local whenever possible.

BACK ON TOPIC:

I own a business that ships items out (many-many) every day, and receives just as much, and my firsthand experience is that UPS is marginally better than FedEx, in both reliability and care of your items.

Frankly, out MOST reliable and cost effective shipper is the US Postal Service.

Who else can you hand fifty-cents on the East Coast and say, "have this envelope in California for me in the next few days, please," and have it happen.

They basically already are around here. Our mom and pop store makes their money renting instruments to junior high and high school band students, they have the same bass gear they’ve had in stock for a decade and it’s still priced as if was new even though some of those basses have probably been played a thousand times. Our local guitar center sells junk. It’s a guitar center studios that I only ever go to for little stuff like strings and cables.

I don’t use fed ex to ship anything anymore I only deal with them these days when someone ships me something using them. Last few basses I shipped I sent with UPS and all small stuff like pedals I use USPS.

 

[swarfrat]

He's not kidding. I dunno about Charlotte, but even Raleigh, NC (a city of about 438k people) the second largest city in the state, basically has Sam Ash, GC, a killer drum only shop, and I think that's about it. I dunno if Harry's is still around, they were only ok when I was in college. Charlotte is big, but they lost what was probably the best music store in the state maybe 10 years ago (don't even remember what it was called now - it was a 2hr drive for me then)

The map of Fayetteville where Nephilymbass lives basically looks like:
Army Base -> | Gate | {Strip Join | Liquor Store | Pawn Shop} x 30 ... pine trees. It's the biggest city in the middle of a huge depressed area, and it's basically 1.5 hrs to Raleigh, which isn't all that great music store wise any longer.