Thank you FedEx...

[crono_]

 Leigh and I ordered a couple costumes for this month and FedEx was kind enough to deliver them today.  The thing is though we were naturally not at home due to school & work.  I received an email about the attempt being made and was told to contact them to reschedule a delivery.  So that's what I did...

Talk about being inconvenient...

They only

Comments

[phrawzty]

To be fair, FedEx doesn't really care about residential deliveries - they make their money off of business services. The fact that they will bring shit to your house is, in reality, simply a marketing technique designed to keep their brand in the common marketplace.

Whenever i'm expecting deliveries in this fashion, i always put my workplace as the delivery address - that way i'll, you know, actually be there to receive it. Unfortunately, given the nature of your employer, i don't know how receptive they would be; however, it doesn't hurt to ask.

[crono_]

Ya I've already asked a while back and they weren't too keen on the idea.

Oh well, c'est la vie...

[imaginecreate]

Just chat up whoever's working the front desk over a break and ask them to fire you an email when it gets in. All salaried employees at Archway do this, and I think even as a GL I did this a couple times. Tell them it's a one-time occurrence or something. Usually the person at the front desk can sign for things like that too.

[sexystacey]

It sucks. What sucks more is when you don't know if the parcel is going to come ups or regular mail.

I just gave up and ship everything to work now. However one time, ups kept delivering to my work, after 5.30 when the office was closed..

[demention]

I'm with you, in a way, that I wish they had hours outside of the normal business run, but as Frosty says, they don't really care. :P

However, I think it is rather shitty that their depot is out by the airport and not more centrally located. Whenever possible I try to get things shipped through regular post, rather than through the courier services, so that I at least know that if I'm not home to recieve it, I can just go to the local post office; consequently, if I'm buying shit off Ebay, I generally try to request that they just ship through regular US/Canada Post unless I need it immediatly.

[discokitty]

ahhh fedex is AWFUL!!!

i thought ups was a pain to deal with until i had a package come from fedex...ups is nothing compared to the BS that is fedex! although ups can't always guarantee a delivery time, they will deliver to alternate addresses for you and their customer service reps seem a lot more competent than fedex's!