Is FEDEX all right????

Most of the Fedex stuff moves through a very few huge sorting facilities such as their Memphis TN hub (even further West). For high value stuff like they ship, it's not really a problem.

http://www.fedexlegends. "On April 7, 1994, FedEx Flight 705, that took off a few minutes before experiencing an attempted hijacking. FedEx employee Auburn Calloway tried to hijack the plane in order to crash it into the FedEx hub at Memphis International, in a Kamikaze-style attack. The crew fought him off and returned to Memphis"

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

"express" it aint.

So long as it's packed correctly it's survive. (by definition)

My last shipment via fedex went to Auckland then Sydney then back to Auckland. Also all the timestamps are local times so when they write the tracking log some may appear out of sequence.

On a sunny day (Fri, 27 Jun 2014 07:25:15 -0400) it happened Spehro Pefhany wrote in :

hmm I can guess about his motivation ;-)

Thanks

BTW I fail to understand their logistics, I have traveled that coastal route all the way from Miami, Orlando, Jacksonville, Richmond, Washington, to NY, (and even more north via Albany to the Canadian border). There should be enough freight from Miami towards NY to justify that route?

On a sunny day (27 Jun 2014 11:36:31 GMT) it happened Jasen Betts wrote in :

LOL makes 2000 km

They are generally OK, but I prefer UPS. Fedex sends all their packages to a clearing house in Ky, if memory serves. So a package going from California to Montana will go on a round trip. It was widely hailed as business genius when they set it up.

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Just because you don't understand it does not mean their system is not effi cient. The air cargo hubs are usually NOT located at airports with signific ant passenger traffic:

The choice of the main consolidation hub is based upon an airport that is well located, has good infrastructure, but that does not necessarily servic e a very large local passenger market. The integrator is thus the airport's main customer and gets a privileged access to the runways.

They've put your package into a ground feeder route, that runs 24/7 anyway, heading towards their Memphis, TN hub, or possibly Indianapolis, IN is ano ther. NY is not a hub and all the cargo in Miami is South America transacti ons. Your package is being fit into their network flow and not the other wa y around.

FedEx has multiple "hubs" around the US.

Cincinnati is on of their international hubs.

If loss or delay is of no consequence, I send via USPS or UPS, otherwise for critical shipments I _always_ use FedEx... they never fail me. ...Jim Thompson

On a sunny day (Fri, 27 Jun 2014 08:34:30 -0700 (PDT)) it happened snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in :

mm wise guy I checked it again later today and the package was marked as 'delivered' to: 6/27/2014 - Friday 10:42 am Delivered Hebron, KY that may make sense for their logistics, except that I am in Europe, in the Netherlands. So either it went to the wrong place, or at the shipping company somebody supplied the wrong tracking number. I have contacted the company by email, but it being Friday and date lines and all that, do not expect an answer until next week.

LOL

Cheap return flight would have worked better.

That's not how FedEx (air) works. Everything is collected at one central sorting facility and dispersed back across the country. From NY to NJ, it may go through TN.

Used to be if you sent an envelope from one floor to another in a Manhattan skyscraper it would go to the hub in TN or whatever and back again overnight.

--sp

That is funny.

Faster than using USPS to send a letter from a suburb of Phoenix to downtown :-) ...Jim Thompson

Eventually it should get to Memphis Tennesse, then hop a flight over the pond.

Cheers

All cargo goes from hub to hub wherever that may be.Does seem a bit excessive though :)

When you drive do you just follow the straight line from where you are to where you want to be? Air traffic is not a lot different in that they have to ship through "doorways". FedEx has a large one in Memphis, TN. Shipping does not provide monotonic progress for every parcel. They do what is most efficient for them.

As to damage, you should make sure it is packaged properly any time you ship. If just handling can damage it you may have made a mistake. Standard shipping does not handle things gently. But then you must already know that, no?

Nah, 600 km is just across the back yard here. I go further than that to get good barbecue. ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

I don't know why Jan is trying to out-think FedEx. Not only are there reasons for bringing all the parcels to a small number of locations before shipping them back out again, they are bringing the airplanes to central locations before sending them back out again. This is a simple matter of economy of scale.

Passenger planes carry people with a minimum of stops and routing through hubs, but it results in a cost premium. You can get cheaper tickets by booking through an airline's hub and changing planes because that saves the airline money. Parcels don't care about changing planes, so FedEx uses the least expensive way of running an airline.

Anyone can screw up and all big companies will feed you the corporate line when you are trying to get info. But my experience has been that employees at UPS are far from "empowered" and basically don't give a hoot about results. If the system doesn't work right, they just shrug their shoulders and let it happen. I have also gotten bad info directly from UPS employees about why problems happen. In one case the package was returned before I had a chance to pick it up. They told me the shipper requested that it *not* be held for pickup if not delivered. I think in reality they simply requested that it be returned if not delivered and was returned early.

I don't recall having any problems with FedEx until I started shipping internationally. Then the only problems I've had were with the confusing web site and the general lack of knowledge about international shipments of the local employees. But they are always as helpful as they can be and are certainly more caring.

When it comes to anything I'm not insuring I go with USPS Priority. I get items delivered anywhere in the CONUS 48 states in two days. That is not guaranteed, but with UPS or Fedex the ground delivery is guaranteed to be longer than 2 days for routes of more than a few states across. Heck, once I sent a package to Chicago from the Washington DC area and it took a ride to California before finding its destination.... oh yeah, I almost forgot about the UPS package that got part way to its destination and the return address got switched with the destination and it came back to me. :( They told me to make the return address very small to prevent this. lol