Below you'll see the route my wheels took to get to me....well the route almost all of them have taken to get to me. All 4 wheels left the same location at the same time and Fedex thought it would be fun for them to have a little race and see who wins. So far 3 wheels have finished the race and one is who knows where. Appears to be stuck in Orlando maybe on a nice vacation or something.

The different color lines represent the route each wheel took. That's right, all 4 leaving the same place going to the same place took a different route. Anyone work for Fedex and care to explain?

 

I don't know why FedEx does that, but I've had similar experiences.

Last year I ordered some oysters for a friends birthday party. The first batch FedEx forgot to pick up from the oyster farmer. The farmer packed up a new batch and FedEx picked that up in Wellfleet MA (out on Cape Cod). I live just outside of NYC near White Plains.

The oysters went from Massachusetts to Tennesee, then to New Jersey, and finally to my house in New York. All overnight at least.

 

that's hilarious.

 

It's really annoying more than anything. Now I'm driving on the wheels I'm trying to sell just hoping nothing happens to them so I can still sell them and I had stuff planned out to be able to get the new wheels and tires up to my brother's work so he could mount them and now that whole plan is out the window. I actually called and it looked like they had a note saying it was put on the wrong truck or something and this was I believe Saturday so they still did not manage to get the wheels on another truck back up in the right direction and they've just sat there.

 

Memphis is the FedEx air hub. All air shipments come into and go out of this hub every night.

 

i know everyone's experiences differ, but i personally don't know why anyone would use FedEx.
i use UPS daily for work, and periodically we get some people who insist on using FedEx. the stuff never gets where it's headed on time, costs significantly more, and plenty of times shows up in rough shape.

any time i buy something online and it ships FedEx, it takes almost twice as long to get here as it would have if it had been shipped UPS, and always costs more.

one time, i bought an OEM clutch disc online from a place in CT. CT is 2 days UPS from me. the company only uses FedEx, and had a few options available: ground, priority, something guaranteed...i paid about $6 extra for the "guaranteed" option, and...it got here in about 4 days. apparently, "guaranteed" meant it would get here in 4 days guaranteed, and if i had paid less for ground, it would have "maybe" gotten here in 2 days. uh...WTF?

 

^No surprise. UPS has their ground game figured out and down to a T. Most of the times from UPS you can get stuff from California to Virginia where I am in 4 days. Pretty cool that I can order Monday and get it Friday.

Tracking number for my missing wheel still says Orlando so I'm at about no hope that it actually shows up anytime soon. I think it just doesn't want to come to Virginia or now that Fedex has it down south they can't figure out how to send it back up. Shoot I could have driven to Florida and back with my package by now.

 

ive had the exact opposite experience. i have shoes that ups took from maryland to washington a week ago and still havent been seen, when they were supposed to go to san diego. my fedexed movies i bought on amazon just got here a day early.

 

I ship via UPS daily. Yeah, they've F'd up big time a couple of few times but mainly they are 95% reliable. One time they lost 2 shipments in a row for this one $15k part I was sending over seas. The whole fiasco cost my customer like $50k in down equipment time.

I ship with Fed Ex by buyer request only and so far have not had any problems with them. However, if i were to ship more frequently with them something would eventually come up im sure.

Btw, if you can deal with DHL's technicalities, they're probably the best to use if your shipping internationally.

 

I had a set of tires shipped from the TireRack Indianapolis warehouse. One pair came directly to me in Atlanta. The other pair stopped off in Washington (state).