FedEx, Now You're Just F*n With Me

[kitekrazy]

22 hours ago, Shane_B. said:

They're handing out CDL's to them here like they are candy. They can't speak or read English, which is kind of important, you know, when you're reading signs on the highway. Maybe they taught them to recognize the important ones like "One Way" and "Stop". Why they allow them to drive 18 wheelers is beyond me and it's becoming a deadly problem across the country ...

I work at an apartment complex. The number on our street address happens to be the same as one of the apartment numbers. I would say that 85% of everyone's deliveries go that apartment because they don't or can't read the packages when they label says 15 xyz St, Apt 30. They just see the 15 xyz street and drop everything off at Apt 15 even if it says a different apartment number.

 People who know English make the same mistake. They are usually younger people.  I have an address that ends with a 5 but somehow those Prime people confuse a 5 with a 3 and it's not Roman numerals.  I don't do Prime so when something comes I know it isn't for 3. This error happens 3 times a year.

 Cool thing is Sweetwater has a warehouse very close to me. Everything is next day for me and I don't have to pay for shipping.

 Back in the day of shrinkwrap if you ordered from EW they charged you for overnight shipping. If you are not home it would get shipped back to them.

[Amberwolf]

1 hour ago, kitekrazy said:

I have an address that ends with a 5 but somehow those Prime people confuse a 5 with a 3 and it's not Roman numerals.

If it *was* in roman numerals, it would be much harder for them to confuse the two.  

[Shane_B.]

1 hour ago, kitekrazy said:

Cool thing is Sweetwater has a warehouse very close to me. Everything is next day for me and I don't have to pay for shipping.

You just jogged an old memory.

I ordered an amp one time. They only had the floor model at Guitar Center and I wanted a new in the box one. It was in stock at the warehouse in the same city. Waited and waited, no amp. So I called and asked if I could just drive there and pick it up. The kid got snotty with me and asked why I wanted it so bad.

I said, you know, your right sweety, I don't want it that bad. I cancelled the order and I haven't bought a single thing from Guitar Center since. That was a good 7 or 8 years ago. Maybe more now that I think about it. The amp wasn't the only reason I stopped buying there, but it was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.

That said, I did take them for a like new condition hollow body with matching hardshell case w/logo for $240 bucks that normally sold for $1000 w/case. This was before the amp debacle. They said they couldn't get rid of it because it was left handed so I helped them out with it.

[Tony Carpenter]

I once ordered a Gibson acoustic guitar  off sweetwater. It was a deal for 2.5k including a Gibson songwriter deluxe and a sg electric. Anyway, long story short, sweetwater used UPS and it never came on day it was supposed to, a Friday. Mid summer in southern Texas and my guitars spent the weekend in the back of truck. Happy ending, I finally got them ok, no issues. But the thing is the song and dance UselessPostalService put me through during the hours of Friday following when delivery should have come and close of day was… ridiculous!!!. 

[Shane_B.]

1 hour ago, Tony Carpenter said:

I once ordered a Gibson acoustic guitar  off sweetwater.

I watched FudX drive in and out of my driveway 3 times with a guitar I ordered from them that was supposed to not require a signature, before I could get outside to catch them. They had a note in hand already, ran up to the door, stuck it on, and flew off. I called Sweets and said just cancel the order. The next day the FudX guy pulled in the driveway with it and sat it on my porch and I told him to take it back. By then they got the message that no signature was required and I could have just kept it and said I never got it. But here I am years later and still don't have that guitar. In cases like these you really can blame the messenger/deliverer. It's not the vendors fault.

That said, FudX has some quirks about them where if you want anything altered about the delivery, you have to create an account, sign in, and do it all online yourself and it's sent real-time to the driver. The vendor has to send an email to their shipping department, hope somebody reads it, then hope they log in to their vendor account and notify FudX. It's best you just do it yourself. You can even sign digitally for packages that were shipped "Signature Required" and they'll just drop it off. But how many people know that? It took me screaming at Sweets to be told that was the best way to handle the situation.