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keefur

What a Tiring Day

Jul 14, 2012 01:40

I had to do 800 con books for Liberty Con in Chattanooga today so I could take them with me to Nashville for a convenient drop off as I had to be there anyway. I had boxed up the con books for Morphicon for shipping Monday, and was concentrating on laminating the covers for Liberty Con, waiting for the new lamination roll to come in via Fedex as I ( Read more... )

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the_mcp July 14 2012, 18:11:00 UTC

I've really lost a lot of respect for FedEx lately. Over the past six months, they've managed to destroy not one, but two demo-gear boxes on their way to/from tradeshows for our company. And I don't mean cardboard boxes, I mean heavy-duty double-walled thermoplastic shipping containers, of the type sold by Pelican/Hardigg, with shock-mounted equipment racks and steel draw latches all around the outside, that cost around $700 a pop.

Unfortunately, UPS is no better. Isn't there any shipping service that actually cares whether they deliver the right packages, intact, to the right person at the right time anymore?