When I plug your address into the googs, it takes me to the wrong address. I think the issue is the borg: they have the wrong location for your address. That might be a good thing. ------------- Max Charleston SC
On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 11:05 AM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I "lost" a box of dog food a coupla weeks ago. Got a message saying the > driver could not find the address. Talked to Fedex (and this is > painful), we went back and forth, I finally called Chewy and they sent > out another box for free and gave me a $25 credit too. ,Same thing with > Fedex then a day or two later. I call Fedex again and was like WTF I > get deliveries all the time my mailbox is plainly marked. So a Fedex > guy shows up a little while later and is asking me what happened, says > he will go try to find my package. he comes back a coupla hours later > with my box, said the other driver had left it at a house down the road > a bit. That made no sense, but whatever. I get the impression this > other driver was either a complete idiot or was trying to steal the dog > food. I ask this guy, who was really nice, where my other box was, did > this dumbass leave it at that house too or where was it, he must have > some record of it. The guy kinda hems and haws a bit, was vague on the > matter, which reinforced that this guy probably stole it, and the guy I > was talking too just didn't want to get into it. > > A few weeks back my buddy tells me he was helping his daughter move. > She had a coupla weeks between apartments so she left her stuff at a > storage bin and stayed with the parents until the new place was > available. My buddy said they went to collect her stuff one morning > early, at two of the nearby bins there were these skanky looking people > and delivery vans loading and unloading packages into the bins. He said > it looked like Fedex contractors and they were using these bins as sorta > intermediate storage/sorting/distribution points. he thought that was > really weird. With some many hands involved it is no wonder stuff goes > missing, and it looks like these outfits are farming out a lot of their > last mile deliveries to contractors. I think Amazon is doing that too, > sometimes I get a plain white van that shows up with packages. > > It's pretty crazy these days how the delivery business is working, the > explosion of online ordering the past year or so has really put the > strain on them it seems. Contracting is a good way to expand without > adding employees and trucks and facilities and infrastructure, but then > you sorta lose control of the end points. > > --FT > > On 6/11/21 10:42 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: > > I ordered $2500 worth of injectors for my Duramax. They were shipped > FedEx with direct signature required. After a couple of delays of when they > were supposed to show up, a guy calls me saying he tried to deliver but > nobody was home. Wanted to know if I could meet him in town. I had > literally just left the house and the wife was there, nobody rang our > doorbell. I said I was gone but the wife was home, and had been all > morning. He says he will try to swing back by later. On the fedex tracking > is says delivery exception customer not available, and was rescheduled for > the next day. I told wife to make sure to be home next day to sign for it. > She says they delivered a box and handed it to her but did not have her > sign anything. It was the injectors. This has been several days ago and > tracking still shows the same status. If I wanted to be a real ass I could > claim I have not received the box and make fedex pay for it. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > -- > --FT > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
