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FedEx "Ground"
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This may be a stupid question, but does FedEx ground ship things by ground exclusively or is "Ground" just their budget branding.
Background: A package was "picked up" by FedEx Ground on 4/4 in El Paso and their expected delivery date to NY is 4/8. It hasn't changed status in 3 days and TX to NY seems like a pretty long Meth-fueled all nighter of a drive.
As it is now, I've taken the day off tomorrow to wait for the stupid package. Is it likely to arrive, or is their estimated delivery date a joke.
Background: A package was "picked up" by FedEx Ground on 4/4 in El Paso and their expected delivery date to NY is 4/8. It hasn't changed status in 3 days and TX to NY seems like a pretty long Meth-fueled all nighter of a drive.
As it is now, I've taken the day off tomorrow to wait for the stupid package. Is it likely to arrive, or is their estimated delivery date a joke.
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It may not have changed status because it's being driven right now, and hasn't gone through any sorting facilities.
Edit: I'm behind on brand information. FedEx Ground is different from the service formerly known as FedEx Ground, which is now Smartpost says wikipedia. Either way, info still basically stands. They have ground hubs and air hubs, but if shipping your package via air makes sense for them they'll do it. Also, an above poster is probably right, you only get updates on tracking info whenever a package passes through a scan point.
The delivery date should be accurate. If it isn't I can shout at a VP for you, if you want. Not that it'll do anything, but it might be cathartic?
Shipment information sent to FedEx 4/4/2011
Picked up 4/4/2011
The status has stayed at "Picked Up" for the past three days and I would imagine that if the package left the facility it would be marked "In Transit".
I suppose it makes sense if they're just holding it in Texas to prevent me from getting the package early.
LOL. Thanks, while I greatly appreciate the offer, it really won't be necessary.
I just hope it gets there as expected as this is the first heavy package I've received since I moved out of a doorman building and I'd really rather not have to lug it back from a FedEx store.
And since we are talking about it, if you take a look at the Fed-Ex Logo, Between the E and the X is an arrow...it's a subliminal marketing thing....and once you see it, it's all you'll see when you see a Fed-Ex truck.
Then I called the vendor, they say they don't have it.
I don't think Im getting this tomorrow.
Now you have to figure out where the fuck it is, exactly
Look at the order of events when you track the package on the website (at the bottom). What does that say?
Apr 4, 2011 4:03 PM Shipment information sent to FedEx
Apr 4, 2011 7:26 AM Picked up EL PASO, TX
Thanks all.
I have to admit that since I have lived in my current house, everything I have had shipped in the last 4 years has been either USPS, or UPS, and UPS holds their packages. I have seen them sit at the first place for days w/o moving, or arriving early, and sitting at that place for days before the UPS guy shows up at 6pm the day of estimated delivery. So my experience has been with UPS not with Fed-Ex. In fact thinking back, when I used to work For T-Mobile sales, we used Fed-Ex and it was awesome. Then they switched to UPS and we had nothing but problems with missing packages....
So...in conclusion
Fed-Ex :^:
UPS :v:
If you go to a Fedex or UPS location, they will have maps that determine how fast your package will get where, and those maps are really very accurate. The time frames are determined (naturally) by the point of origin and where the major hubs are located.
Now, where you'll get major delays is when a merchant tries to be cheap. They will ship something out (in my experience this always happens with DHL domestic shipments) who then take your package and put it in a sorting hub. This is not like the more sophisticated sorting hubs Fedex and UPS use; this is literally a guy throwing a box one at a time into another box. This is then given to USPS to deliver after being sorted by postal code. USPS has a contract with the DHL sorting station (generally for junk-mail but also for things like Amazon) and so a merchant has a cheaper rate by shipping this route rather than, say, simply shipping the package USPS to begin with (which would be significantly faster. Each destination point is generally an extra day).
TLDR: Fedex and UPS don't hold packages, DHL is the cheap option and it shows, and I've worked in this industry for far too long at far too many companies.
/fini
Ground is pretty fast. We can get a package from western PA to anywhere in the continental US in 4 days or less.
We must know!
They don't hold your package per se, but how it was explained to me is that FedEx SmartPost groups packages intended for a certain destination together, but won't deliver them to the post office unless a) there is either enough packages to warrant delivery, OR b) to ensure they make the delivery date. If option "a" isn't true and the package was delivered relatively close to your home you could still find it being shipped back and forth across the country. The more packages FedEx has that are intended for delivery to your area the more likely it is that you'll get it early.
It arrived. Thanks all!
If I remember correctly (this was a whiles ago), the tracking was awful.
That's because they don't do this. I've worked at Fedex, and they do not have the capacity to do this. Even if they did, it would be stupid and cost them money for no reason.
Only people with zero experience in the shipping industry can believe this. It's just one of those rumors that never dies.
Besides the obvious necro on this thread, they don't generally hold customer packages for random ebay purchases. If it says "arrived in (your local city)" it could have 1-2 day sort ahead of it depending on the size of your city. Or it could be getting inspected, or it could've had damage to the box that needs to be repaired.
Avon is the worst offender for this. They send everything in these oversized shoe boxes and the only thing keeping it together is a single plastic strap... which happens to get stuck in conveyer belts and shredded to shit. Having 200 lbs of shampoo and soap come at you down a chute is something else, let me tell you.