FedEx is driving my amp around in circles!

nadams
nadams Posts: 5,877
edited November 2008 in The Clubhouse
FedEx tracking for my amp-

Nov 11, 2008 4:20 AM Arrived at FedEx location LEWISBERRY, PA

Nov 12, 2008 4:49 AM At local FedEx facility PHILADELPHIA, PA
9:05 AM In transit PHILADELPHIA, PA
6:35 PM Departed FedEx location PHILADELPHIA, PA
11:48 PM Arrived at FedEx location LEWISBERRY, PA

Nov 13, 2008 1:22 AM Departed FedEx location LEWISBERRY, PA
4:18 AM At local FedEx facility PITTSTON, PA
4:32 AM On FedEx vehicle for delivery PITTSTON, PA


It should've gone straight from Lewisberry to Pittston, and then out to be delivered. Instead, it took a detour through PHILADELPHIA?! Not only a detour, but they actually sent it BACK to Lewisberry. Apparently since it arrived to Lewisberry a day early, they decided to send it on a road trip to keep the delivery date accurate...

Lets just hope the extra miles on the road haven't harmed anything :(
Ludicrous gibs!
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited November 2008
    Excellent! My plan is working perfectly!


    Oh, wait, did I say that out loud? Crap.
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited November 2008
    At least my miles of travel per dollar paid for shipping ratio is increasing...
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited November 2008
    Everyone knows that their drivers are only allowed to make left turns. We, the comsumers, should plan accordingly.
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,715
    edited November 2008
    I had this happen once on a damaged amp that was being sent back to the seller. It went back and forth from Georgia to Rhode Island 3 times. Took almost a month for FedEx to get the amp back in the sellers hands. It was extremely frustrating. It was because they screwed up and had multiple labels on the box.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,725
    edited November 2008
    Keiko wrote: »
    Must be some sort of method to the madness. I'm sure your amp will arrive just fine.
    Agreed. Of hundreds of packages shipped and received with them over the years, I've only had one bad experience with them, and that was because of some numnuts behind the counter who actually dropped a package I was shipping, right in front of me.
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  • mewisemagic
    mewisemagic Posts: 194
    edited November 2008
    maybe the drivers are taking turns playing tunes on it at every drop off. :)
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 18,986
    edited November 2008
    This may be part of the reason that they will be in line asking for a government bailout. You think?
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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited November 2008
    I've seen stuff of mine on a regular basis , maybe 1 out of 8 or 10 shipments ...get shipped to Salinas ( About 30 miles south ) ....then go back up to South San Francisco ( 95 miles north ) ....then to San Pablo ....finally back down to me.

    For some reason that Salinas hub once in a while doesnt have a clue ....over the years I should have kept track of the actual days that it happened on...probably corresponds to the day and shift an ex girlfriend works ;)
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited November 2008
    Well, it finally got here, and the box doesn't look too bad. I'm not going to open it up yet because I had it delivered to work so it wouldn't be sitting on my front porch all day.

    But when 5 o'clock hits, it's going to get unpacked and hooked up in a hurry. Unfortunately, I have bowling league tonight, so the serious listening will have to wait until I get home from that.
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited November 2008
    Yup if they say it will be delivered next Wed. then by god they mean next Wed! Not Monday when it got into town, not Tues, when it is just sitting there taking up space. THEY MEAN WEDNESDAY!!!! What is so unclear about that?:rolleyes:;):D
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited November 2008
    cfrizz wrote: »
    Yup if they say it will be delivered next Wed. then by god they mean next Wed! Not Monday when it got into town, not Tues, when it is just sitting there taking up space. THEY MEAN WEDNESDAY!!!! What is so unclear about that?:rolleyes:;):D

    Always been true with FedEx. UPS will deliver as soon as they can... FedEx delivers the day it's due, or later. Never earlier.
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited November 2008
    maybe the drivers get paid by the mile.. so your amp took the scenic route to you :D

    so what amp did you get?
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited November 2008
    cfrizz wrote: »
    Yup if they say it will be delivered next Wed. then by god they mean next Wed! Not Monday when it got into town, not Tues, when it is just sitting there taking up space. THEY MEAN WEDNESDAY!!!! What is so unclear about that?:rolleyes:;):D


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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited November 2008
    danger boy wrote: »
    maybe the drivers get paid by the mile.. so your amp took the scenic route to you :D

    so what amp did you get?

    Adcom GFA-545 from Cambir.

    And it's killing me that it's sitting here boxed up and I can't play with it :)
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,715
    edited November 2008
    nadams wrote: »
    Always been true with FedEx. UPS will deliver as soon as they can... FedEx delivers the day it's due, or later. Never earlier.

    UPS is guilty of the same thing. I have seen this plenty of times with both services.
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  • SBrown712
    SBrown712 Posts: 202
    edited November 2008
    I love it when they deliver packages to my apartment complex office instead of bringing it to my apartment. I'm at home, recovering from back surgery, and knew a package was supposed to be delivered. I checked tracking on-line the afternoon it was to be delivered and sure enough it was, to the office. Driver never came to my apartment. I had to talk someone in the office into bringing me the box since I couldn't go get it.
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  • seeclear
    seeclear Posts: 1,242
    edited November 2008
    nadams wrote: »
    Always been true with FedEx. UPS will deliver as soon as they can... FedEx delivers the day it's due, or later. Never earlier.

    That's funny, out here I find that UPS is always on the due date or later, while FedEx will occasionally get here one day early. I guess it has to do with your local hub. Also, I always get my packages sent to my office, so maybe that has something to do with it.:rolleyes:
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  • cambir
    cambir Posts: 1,045
    edited November 2008
    nadams wrote: »
    It should've gone straight from Lewisberry to Pittston, and then out to be delivered. Instead, it took a detour through PHILADELPHIA?! Not only a detour, but they actually sent it BACK to Lewisberry. Apparently since it arrived to Lewisberry a day early, they decided to send it on a road trip to keep the delivery date accurate...

    Lets just hope the extra miles on the road haven't harmed anything :(

    I think they're system is just flawed. Here's what they said it did when it left my hands (around 5pm, since their last drop off is 6pm):

    7:06 PM Picked up AUBURN, WA
    8:28 PM In FedEx possession BOTHELL, WA Tendered at FedEx location
    8:28 PM Package data transmitted to FedEx
    8:54 PM Arrived at FedEx location AUBURN, WA
    11:24 PM Left FedEx origin facility AUBURN, WA

    Auburn is a good 20-30 minutes south of me in Bothell, but somehow the package mystriously arrived in Auburn 1.5 hours prior to me dropping it off in Bothell...then it went back to Auburn :confused:
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