FedEx frustration

JayhawkCurtis said:
There was a story about fedex drivers dumping packages in the woods a few weeks ago in Alabama I think, I wonder how much of that goes on that we never hear about
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That was a true story, something like 400 packages…
 
Messaged both Newegg and FedEx over the weekend. Just got an update on the tracking that it will be here tomorrow so will keep you updated
 
I have medicine shipped fedex every month to the house. Shipment said delivered but nothing on front porch. Called and they said you didn’t look hard enough :D:eek: Called pharmacy and they shipped another prescription…. Both showed up 2 days later
 
Got an update….. it shipped but still blaming covid …. What is wrong with this place?… never again

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Golfman25 said:
So you don't think covid is affecting the supply chain and shipping?
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Not in my business....the second I went to CAT or Cummins and said sorry.... covid is preventing me from shipping on time. I would be replaced.
I buy steel from China, Castings from England all shipped containers and never had a problem... now I carry alot of inventory so it isnt a problem if something went wrong...but at the end of the day my customers get what they want when they want it.
There is alot more to it then I want to type...but there is a way around everything....using Covid as an excuse is lame...using covid as an excuse after you purchase something in stock is down right sinister....
 
I have two separate deliveries that Fedex has and they refuse to give an ETA. One shipped from PA and one from FL. Both were supposed to be at my house yesterday. They are both at the orginating Fedex facility with no schedule to be moved. WTF? Meanwhile, the USPS and UPS have been delivering flawlessly on time.
 
Today my FedEx tracker updated. Still says it left Grove City, Ohio on 2/2 but now says it arrived in Clinton, PA at about 1:00 PM today then left that site at about 6:00 PM tonight. Clinton is right next to the Pittsburgh airport, about 45 minutes from me. Says it will be here tomorrow. Guessing my emails I sent over the weekend created some phone calls.
 
Blueone said:
Not in my business....the second I went to CAT or Cummins and said sorry.... covid is preventing me from shipping on time. I would be replaced.
I buy steel from China, Castings from England all shipped containers and never had a problem... now I carry alot of inventory so it isnt a problem if something went wrong...but at the end of the day my customers get what they want when they want it.
There is alot more to it then I want to type...but there is a way around everything....using Covid as an excuse is lame...using covid as an excuse after you purchase something in stock is down right sinister....
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Sorry, but if your telling me everything is running smooth post covid, I'll call a little BS on that. I know we are in similar businesses -- metal parts supply. In my case, it's a complete disaster and nothing is reliable at pre covid levels. My steel vendors are on allocation and not recieving the montly demand -- thus there is less metal to go around. Anything they have incomming is usually sold, so their inventory is non-existent. Mills are pushing delilveries to them out not a week or two, but a month or two. We recently got told metal that was supposed to be here Jan 31 is now out until April or May. I was told last week, that I have used up my allocation of brass and they can't sell me anything until Sept.

I am chasing truck deliveries around the USA. One coming in from CA has been sitting in Chicago for a week, with unkept promises to deliver "tomorrow." One that was supposed to pick up last Tuesday, is still sitting on our dock after daily calls to come and get it. We had several delays shipping weekly to Texas until the customer switched, ironically, to FedEx freight -- so far they have been delivering timely. Had one shipment get "lost" for a month, until it was recently found. Even local trasnport is taking longer than expected.

Now assuming I can get material, then there is always the workforce that may or may not show up. We've had several people out for 1-2 weeks during the Omicron surge. And if they weren't sick, they had to care for dying family members, etc.

So maybe you live in a post covid utopia where everything runs without issue. And if so, good for you. But that hasn't been even close to my experience. And I can see similar issues with may businesses I frequent and owners I know.
 
I ordered two long block 4.3 engines for my 290 DA Aprill 15 last year, got one engine in OCT and the other Dec 23. I wish I only had to wait a couple of weeks!!
 
Golfman25 said:
Sorry, but if your telling me everything is running smooth post covid, I'll call a little BS on that. I know we are in similar businesses -- metal parts supply. In my case, it's a complete disaster and nothing is reliable at pre covid levels. My steel vendors are on allocation and not recieving the montly demand -- thus there is less metal to go around. Anything they have incomming is usually sold, so their inventory is non-existent. Mills are pushing delilveries to them out not a week or two, but a month or two. We recently got told metal that was supposed to be here Jan 31 is now out until April or May. I was told last week, that I have used up my allocation of brass and they can't sell me anything until Sept.

I am chasing truck deliveries around the USA. One coming in from CA has been sitting in Chicago for a week, with unkept promises to deliver "tomorrow." One that was supposed to pick up last Tuesday, is still sitting on our dock after daily calls to come and get it. We had several delays shipping weekly to Texas until the customer switched, ironically, to FedEx freight -- so far they have been delivering timely. Had one shipment get "lost" for a month, until it was recently found. Even local trasnport is taking longer than expected.

Now assuming I can get material, then there is always the workforce that may or may not show up. We've had several people out for 1-2 weeks during the Omicron surge. And if they weren't sick, they had to care for dying family members, etc.

So maybe you live in a post covid utopia where everything runs without issue. And if so, good for you. But that hasn't been even close to my experience. And I can see similar issues with may businesses I frequent and owners I know.
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Geez… your life must suck. I don’t know what to tell you we have done different things and it has worked out. I always take the position that no is not acceptable and we push around it one way or another
 
Blueone said:
Geez… your life must suck. I don’t know what to tell you we have done different things and it has worked out. I always take the position that no is not acceptable and we push around it one way or another
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It does. And it's happenging to more than me. You should head to Vegas cause you sound very lucky. :)
 
Golfman25 said:
Sorry, but if your telling me everything is running smooth post covid, I'll call a little BS on that. I know we are in similar businesses -- metal parts supply. In my case, it's a complete disaster and nothing is reliable at pre covid levels. My steel vendors are on allocation and not recieving the montly demand -- thus there is less metal to go around. Anything they have incomming is usually sold, so their inventory is non-existent. Mills are pushing delilveries to them out not a week or two, but a month or two. We recently got told metal that was supposed to be here Jan 31 is now out until April or May. I was told last week, that I have used up my allocation of brass and they can't sell me anything until Sept.

I am chasing truck deliveries around the USA. One coming in from CA has been sitting in Chicago for a week, with unkept promises to deliver "tomorrow." One that was supposed to pick up last Tuesday, is still sitting on our dock after daily calls to come and get it. We had several delays shipping weekly to Texas until the customer switched, ironically, to FedEx freight -- so far they have been delivering timely. Had one shipment get "lost" for a month, until it was recently found. Even local trasnport is taking longer than expected.

Now assuming I can get material, then there is always the workforce that may or may not show up. We've had several people out for 1-2 weeks during the Omicron surge. And if they weren't sick, they had to care for dying family members, etc.

So maybe you live in a post covid utopia where everything runs without issue. And if so, good for you. But that hasn't been even close to my experience. And I can see similar issues with may businesses I frequent and owners I know.
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Everyone is tired of the covid thing, but it is affecting the workforce…at Fedex i hear alot of the pilots are out with covid so they are short pilots, and they can only fly so many hours in a week so some flights are being cancelled and that freight has to be trucked instead, and just like Golf said, noone wants to come to work anymore, and people you hire may work a few days and not come back, ive never seen anything quite like the time we are in right now, hope it ends soon.
 
Blueone said:
Geez… your life must suck. I don’t know what to tell you we have done different things and it has worked out. I always take the position that no is not acceptable and we push around it one way or another
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I second what @Golfman25 is saying. Our scale is we occasionally have to order domestic mill runs and get in their production schedule. They used to do several runs a month and now they do one a month due to "COVID" and their raw material supplier related issues. So, it is real. We were bidding on a major installation that required a mill run; we had to put a risk in the proposal on steel delivery.
 
ttmott said:
I second what @Golfman25 is saying. Our scale is we occasionally have to order domestic mill runs and get in their production schedule. They used to do several runs a month and now they do one a month due to "COVID" and their raw material supplier related issues. So, it is real. We were bidding on a major installation that required a mill run; we had to put a risk in the proposal on steel delivery.
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We just called another trucking company to pick up this weeks (and last weeks) shipments for a customer. They said booked solid, try again Thursday. Must all be up in Canada or something. :)
 
Jus Cruisin said:
I ordered some stuff from Chewy yesterday. It's coming in 2 shipments and FedEx says both are arriving today from out of state. I didn't pay for next day shipping. In fact, shipping was free.
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I’m not sure where Chewy gets shipped from, but it usually shows up the next day after I’ve ordered it…maybe the second day, must be magic lol.
 
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