FEDEX SUCKS!! - Page 2

My experience is the opposite - UPS is by far the best around here.

Fed-ex for domestic shipments is the best and cheapest, for international I always use USPS

I generally have good experiences with FedEx, UPS and the USPS. Can't really think of a botched delivery coming or going that I've been involved with.

What I don't do is get terribly worked up over delivery dates. If something takes an extra day or two, I don't mind. There are more important things to worry about. I worked for UPS during undergrad. We had something over 250,000 packages going through the hub when I was there. Sometimes, things got put on the wrong truck and/or otherwise misrouted. When you're dealing with that kind of volume, a margin of error is inevitable. What I took away from the experience, however, was that the company and its employees cared about getting things right and always tried to fix the goofs. The good faith was there. So if something turns up a couple of days late, I don't sweat it.

In my line of work, sometimes the timing of document delivery is critical. When that's the case, I use a private courier. Our service is impeccably reliable and Omid, our rep, is probably the most trustworthy person I've come across in this lifetime. Thank the assorted deities that that is client billable.

UPS and Fedex SUCKS period. ESPECIALLY TO CANADA. NEVER, EVER SHIP USING EITHER COMPANY TO CANADA. I've been stuck with hundreds of dollars of ridiculous brokerage fees ON TOP of customs.

Any thoughts on purolator?

Well, since Purolator is Canadian ("Purolator Courier Ltd. is a Canadian courier that is 91% owned by Canada Post^[1], 7% owned by Barry Lapointe Holdings Ltd. and 2% by Others."), I haven't gotten anally raped by them. But I'm sure that's in store in the future.

 

How many times did it take before you began to ask the person or business doing the shipping not to use those companies. I slammed my dingaling in a sliding glass door when I was five or six. I made sure not to do that again.

Edited by Samgotit - 7/3/10 at 10:57am

Yeah, some companies will ONLY ship UPS or Fedex...how can I possibly NOT choose either one.

By not using those companies???

Fixed it for you.

Ai...I just hope my J3 comes soon, D2 is half dead 

As a Canadian, I hate both Fedex and UPS for international shipping-- they just charge unreasonable handling fees for it. Customs have annoying fees, but those two guys just make the value of whatever product you bought for whatever price suddenly seem not as worth it.

UPS, FedEx work fine for me and while USPS' tracking is pretty much useless I still applaud their service. The Post guy tries 2 or three times to deliver on the same day so how can I complain.