FedEx Oh Boy... Well it turned out good!

Broadstruck

So I had a fellow collector opt to use FedEx to send me a box of 20 for photography. I'm watching the email update notifications and then get one that it was delivered. To whom I don't know as it sure wasn't me? All I have is a first name initial and last name. I call FedEx to do a trace and after 2 1/2 hours awaiting a return call took matters into my own hands. Doing a google, yahoo, & facebook search discovered the pastor and his wife at a church a mile away share the same first name initial and last name. I hop in the car walk into the church & I am guided to the office. Not even at the door I already see my name on the address label on a parcel atop a large pile. Just really glad that of all the places it could have been wrongly delivered it was a church!

TopographicOceans

Hey it could have been a pawn shop!

I guess as long as some of the information matches it counts as delivered.

Broadstruck

Originally posted by: TopographicOceans

Hey it could have been a pawn shop!



I guess as long as some of the information matches it counts as delivered.

It's still shown as delivered, but in the age of GPS there's no excuse for this.



Then again they use a lot of subcontractors these days.

coindeuce

Apparently literacy is not a qualification for Fedex drivers.

TommyType

I think I'd have a FedEx manager/supervisor/designated-punching-bag on the phone just so I could vent my spleen at them. No, it wouldn't do any good....but I'd feel better afterward.

Broadstruck

It's crazy as you can't even find a phone number for a local dispatch center as you have to wait for someone across the country to contact them and they the driver. Still could be worse as they could have outsourced their customer service.

kaz

Man that's scary all the technology and tripped up by 2 people with similar names. Glad it turned out OK!

sparky64

Excellent work on your part by being proactive. Glad it worked out.

thebeav

"Excellent work on your part by being proactive. Glad it worked out. "

Boy, I'll say.....I would hate to have to deal with FedEx on a large coin insurance claim......

ricko

Wow.... near disaster averted by being proactive.... Glad it turned out well... Cheers, RickO

Flatwoods

Boy, I'll say.....I would hate to have to deal with FedEx on a large coin insurance claim......





Try dealing with them on a "Driver backed into your house and caused 20K worth of damage claim."

Broadstruck

What insurance claim?



I found out afterward so no attention was called to contents the package was not insured. Also in a hurry to ship he didn't write down any of the cert numbers on the slabs. At a quick glance all are valued between $300-1500, so had it been lost it would have been like trying to track down 20 turnips that fell off a truck.

Tassa

Not a fan of FedEx. They have a habit of delivering my stuff to the wrong office/business. Last week 1000 ounces silver I ordered was left at the deli next door.

Tomthecoinguy

Originally posted by: Broadstruck
So I had a fellow collector opt to use FedEx to send me a box of 20 for photography. I'm watching the email update notifications and then get one that it was delivered. To whom I don't know as it sure wasn't me? All I have is a first name initial and last name. I call FedEx to do a trace and after 2 1/2 hours awaiting a return call took matters into my own hands. Doing a google, yahoo, & facebook search discovered the pastor and his wife at a church a mile away share the same first name initial and last name. I hop in the car walk into the church & I am guided to the office. Not even at the door I already see my name on the address label on a parcel atop a large pile. Just really glad that of all the places it could have been wrongly delivered it was a church!

Could someone be trying to get you back to church.

logger7

I was stopping at a dealer's place in CT and the UPS driver had left a monster box of ASEs outside while they were open, don't ask me why. Anyone could have walked away with it.

keyman64

That's crazy!



Happy for a good outcome though.

TommyType

FedEx used to be the "Gold Star Standard" for package delivery. You paid for it....but they were the best.



Now, I'm not so sure that the USPS, (even with all of their problems), isn't the best way to go....

AUandAG

I gave up on FEDEX and UPS years ago. Seems to me that a normal route driver (USPS) would be more likely

to know the name on the label and associate it with the right home/business. The other yahoos just drive

around and throw packages.

USPS all the way for me and coins are insurable to boot.



bob

coindeuce

Originally posted by: AUandAG

I gave up on FEDEX and UPS years ago. Seems to me that a normal route driver (USPS) would be more likely

to know the name on the label and associate it with the right home/business. The other yahoos just drive

around and throw packages.

USPS all the way for me and coins are insurable to boot.



bob

THIS.

OPA

Originally posted by: coindeuce

Originally posted by: AUandAG
I gave up on FEDEX and UPS years ago. Seems to me that a normal route driver (USPS) would be more likely
to know the name on the label and associate it with the right home/business. The other yahoos just drive
around and throw packages.
USPS all the way for me and coins are insurable to boot.

bob

THIS.

+2

lkeigwin

Twice in the last several months we've found FedEx packages in the brush hundreds of yards from our house. For residents living a mile or two away. We delivered them to the proper door steps and forgot about them. I wonder if I should have reported it somehow.



I tried to come up with a good explanation as to what might have happened. But I can't. All I can figure is laziness and gross disregard.

Lance.

NumisOxide

That was close. Good detective skills buddy.