FedEx review: If you are lucky you will get it! 24

That story is lame they manager was not lying and the package was handled the same way UPS, DHL, or the USPS would handle it. The driver does not have time to take phone calls beings that he is driving and has a schedule to keep. There is no forced path to take because the driving conditions could change at any time. The driver could have delivered the package without a signature but what good would that do if it was stolen, the signature is to guarantee delivery.

I had a similar experience with Fedex Home/Ground delivery and will never use them again.

I sent a folding bicycle from myself in San Francisco to myself in Chicago (my second home). I printed the shipper from my home computer (like I always do for my business items) and delivered the 30 by 30 by 16 box to Kinkos on June 10th. They told me it would arrive in Chicago on June 16th - "perfect!" is what I said.

When June 16th came with no delivery, I decided to give Fedex a call. I was told that the package was on the truck and that everything was fine for delivery the next day.

When June 18th came with no delivery, I decided to give Fedex another call. I was told that they put the package on the wrong truck, but that it would be there on June 19th. The explaination was that they were not fimiliar with the zip code on my package - I then told them it was for downtown chicago and wondered how they could not know the zip code for one of the most common delivery locations in the USA. They said that it would be delivered on June 19th - I heard that one before.

When June 20th came with no delivery, I decided to give Fedex another call (as you can imagine I was not very happy by now). They said that they decided to return it to the shipper since they could not read the barcode. The package was now in Utah being shipped back to CA. I asked them why they didn't give me a call (strange?). Since my vacation was ending, I said fine, ship it back to the sender - which was me and re-gave them my address in San Francisco just to make sure they had the shipping address.

When June 25th came with no delivery back at my home in San Francisco, I decided to give Fedex another call. They told me that they shipped it back to the Fedex Account number location (which is in Los Angeles). I honestly could not believe this! I told them that I needed it shipped back to the shipping address not my companies headquarters!

On July 1st I finally received my package back - 30 days after I shipped it. The package was in pretty good shape. Thank goodness I received my most favorite bike back. It had traveled all around the country and probably had a better vacation that me!

I will NEVER use Fedex Home/Ground delivery again. The multitude of stupidity and screw-ups were mind boggling. If you want your packages on-time do not use Fedex Home/Ground delivery.

I'm also looking at switching over my overnight delivery service to someone else - the US Post Office! Can you believe that?

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Fedex - "You Suck"!

I used to be a courier for several years (Federal Express Air) and FedEx Home Delivery is the most unprofessional service I can think of. I bought something off of Ebay and was supposed to receive it today. I happen to have the whole day available (Tuesday) so I've been waiting. So sure enough the day goes by and by till I realize that because of every single experience I've ever had with this company I'd better call in and place a hold before the courier takes the truck and everyone's package home with him. I've been checking the tracking on the internet all day and checking for slips by the way. Sure enough 4 p.m roles around and once again I go out to the front of my condo to see if I get lucky( same as several times earlier) and lo and behold there he is. Parked at a red light. So I start waving and he see's me. When the light turns green he drives right past me while I'm standing on the corner waving. So I run to my truck in the back and catch up to him at an intersection where he's waiting to make a turn. And he does. Right on to the freeway headed back to the station. 4:19 I look at the tracking info and he's entered an exception saying he attempted the delivery but I wasn't there. That's called FRAUD. I know they don't have specific delivery times but it may also be a wrong day late. They have no dispatch units on their trucks to contact them in route. They can take everything home with them so you can't pick it up in person. Their office is only open between 8a.m and 4:30p.m. They flat out lie and choose what's convenient for them to deliver on the fly. That's a big "F" in my book and it frustrates the crap out of me to know when it comes to shipping options they're one of them. They should go out of business because they're not being professionally regulated by any larger management other than they're personal boss and they're flat out ghetto liars.

Fed Ex home delivery is the worst company. I used to work for them. don't trust them at all.

this is for danfiveten you dont know what
he hell your talking about. you are just trying to cover your [censor]. i used to work for home delivery under a contractor yeah you suck. The reason why this company gets complaints is because the contractor sits on his [censor] and rights out checks for every week, when the employee is working his [censor] off. thats no motivation what so ever. every contractor screws their employees no health no nothing no taxes taken out. this was the worst job i have ever had. dont trust home delivery. you can trust fed ex express is much better company and service. home delivery pretty much isnt fedex. danfiveten you need to shut the hell up and start realizing that you work for a [censor] company. that screws their employees and clients over.

Fedex Home Delivery is the WORST and most UNRELIABLE service there is. They have lied to me and the shipper of the products I have been unable to receive due to their stupidity, lack of customer service or even common sense. I received a tracking email from them saying my 3 packages would arrive the next day. I was home working on my computer all day and they did not even ring my door bell. I was in my email and received a "delivered" email from them so I checked my door and the building doorway-no packages. So I called them and they kept me on hold for a long time, then the person comes back and says they wouldn't have delivered it with out a signature and said she was going to connect to the local office, she kept me on hold, then connected me and there were people talking in the background even though I was supposed to be on hold, sounded like they were arguing and they hung up on me without even speaking to me to aknowledge that I was even on the line. I called back, got someone else who said that they apparently misdelivered to someone else in my building but that the driver had gone back to retrieve the package but did not redeliver so he tried to connect to the local office but was unable and said at 4:45 pm that "they didn't answer and it looked like maybe they went home a little early"! WHAT KIND OF CUSTOMER SERVICE IS THIS? So he told me that anyway, FEDEX would really not get back to me so I should call the company that had shipped the packages. So I did and they didn't get much more from them so I had to call both them and Fedex over a couple of days to get some answers to which Fedex still state "they had an incomplete address" even though my shipper and I have verified my address several times with them on the phone. So today, they said they would deliver and AGAIN, no delivery. So I tracked it on their site again and it says " Unable to deliver shipment, return to shipper - 3 deliveries attempted and notice sent to recipient, no response" A BIG LIE because again I was home all day working at my computer and no one rang the bell. So I call my vendor to complain again and they called Fedex who kept them on hold for a long time and finally she got them to deliver 1 of the 3 packages today (it was 4 PM) but the other 2, which, although coming to the same address WERE NOT EVEN ON THE SAME TRUCK(!), are already rerouted back the the shipper. Well, it is 5 PM right now and I pretty much assume the 1 box will likely not arrive today. FEDEX HOME DELIVERY SERVICE SUCKS!

I agree, FedEx sucks. Ordered a camera from Amazon on Thursday, June 20 and paid for expedited shipping. Camera shipped on Friday June 21 from Henderson, NV, and (according to tracking info) has been sitting in Golden Valley, AZ since Saturday June 22. It is now Tuesday evening (June 25) and no tracking update since Saturday. Delivery estimate (I live in Delaware) is Thursday, June 27, according to the FedEx website. That is a full week after I placed my order and 6 business days after the shipping date. Is that expedited shipping? The pony express moved faster than that. I've shipped stuff via USPS Priority mail that has arrived the next business day over similar distances. FedEx needs to SERIOUSLY rethink their routing strategies...

What people need to understand is that FedEx Home Delivery was set up to use private contractors to deliver packages that are driver release packages and can be left without a signature at the recipients front door. These drivers work for a contractor not FedEx and do not have company cell phones to be called for re-deliveries. They set up their routes in the morning an run them accordingly, they get paid a salary for the day not hourly, so the object is to empty the truck as soon as possible and go home. If you want to order products that require a signature, you need to use FedEx Express which will cost you more money, but will give you a guaranteed delivery time. When you see what they are going to charge you for Express service as opposed to ground you will understand the difference. You get what you pay for. It's not the FedEx Home Delivery guys fault that you are trying to use a cheaper service that has literally no commitment time other than 8 to 8 and you expect to get air freight service on your package. If you pay the price you'll get the service!

I myself understand where you are coming from, but not everyone has the money to pay extra for shipping some of us thirve enough as it is just to pay for the item that is to be delivered.

I agree that fed ex is bad. was supposed to get a package by the end of the day today and t did not come. Today is Friday the 22nd of December so the package will not be delivered on Saturday or Sunday. Monday is Christmas so it won't be here then either. If not here Tuesday will file a complaint with the consumer protection agency and with my credit card company to have all charges removed. I will not use these inefficient people again for anything

FedEx is a very poor delivery service. Several years ago I ordered a HP computer. FedEx driver delivered it to the wrong apartment. The person there stated he didn't order it and signed the form. So FedEx sent it back. If the driver would have looked at the package address and compared it with the person who signed it s/he would have seen it was not me. Sadly, when I receive orders from online sellers many use FedEx as the delivery. Therefore, I receive about 50% of my packages from FedEx and the others never arrive because the driver can't find my place, although I've been here 14 years or the driver claims I wasn't home, but I was and waited. I have never had problems with UPS or the USPS. I wish I had a choice so I could ask the seller to have UPS deliver my packages. Dr. Larry Semark