"Bill Turner" wrote in message
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I ordered a bunch of parts for a homebrew amp from Mouser on the 10th.
FedEx picked them up in Fort Worth, Texas on the 10th, got them to Los
Angeles on the 13th and they've been sitting there ever since. IF they
are delivered tomorrow, the 20th, that will be seven days to go the 120
miles from LA to my QTH. IF they are delivered tomorrow.

And on the other hand, I ordered a computer
case and power supply at about 3 P.M. last
Wednesday. It arrived about the same hour
on Friday. It's over 700 miles between City
of Industry (L.A.) and Alturas, CA. FedEx
Express Saver service has been good to me.

BTW, there were a lot of barcodes on the
box other than FedEx's. Didn't seem to
matter.

73, John - K6QQ

In article , says...

And on the other hand, I ordered a computer
case and power supply at about 3 P.M. last
Wednesday. It arrived about the same hour
on Friday. It's over 700 miles between City
of Industry (L.A.) and Alturas, CA. FedEx
Express Saver service has been good to me.

BTW, there were a lot of barcodes on the
box other than FedEx's. Didn't seem to
matter.

73, John - K6QQ




I just sent a huge box (24x24x30 or so, about 70 pounds) via FedEx 3-day
Express Saver from Seattle to Portland. It got there the next day for
about $80. Can't complain about that! Actually paying for overnight
deliver would have been in the $300 range.

I don't have much use for FedEx Ground, though. FedEx has done a
terrible job integrating the ground service with the rest of their
tracking and billing infrastructure. The impression I get is that
FedEx's IT people are among the least competent in the shipping
business. It's *very* rare that all of the features at fedex.com
actually work at any given moment. And I've lost track of the number of
"user IDs" I've had to create over the past few years due to their
wholesale re-engineering of the site.

-- jm

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FedEx Ground can be disappointing -- I agree -- but I've sold a lot of bulky
stuff on EBay and warn the purchaser that they should expect delivery in "at
best" a week. Nothing has gotten lost for me via FedEx Ground.

"John Miles" wrote in message
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In article , says...

And on the other hand, I ordered a computer
case and power supply at about 3 P.M. last
Wednesday. It arrived about the same hour
on Friday. It's over 700 miles between City
of Industry (L.A.) and Alturas, CA. FedEx
Express Saver service has been good to me.

BTW, there were a lot of barcodes on the
box other than FedEx's. Didn't seem to
matter.

73, John - K6QQ




I just sent a huge box (24x24x30 or so, about 70 pounds) via FedEx 3-day
Express Saver from Seattle to Portland. It got there the next day for
about $80. Can't complain about that! Actually paying for overnight
deliver would have been in the $300 range.

I don't have much use for FedEx Ground, though. FedEx has done a
terrible job integrating the ground service with the rest of their
tracking and billing infrastructure. The impression I get is that
FedEx's IT people are among the least competent in the shipping
business. It's *very* rare that all of the features at fedex.com
actually work at any given moment. And I've lost track of the number of
"user IDs" I've had to create over the past few years due to their
wholesale re-engineering of the site.

-- jm

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http://www.qsl.net/ke5fx
Note: My E-mail address has been altered to avoid spam
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In article ,
John Walton wrote:

FedEx Ground can be disappointing -- I agree -- but I've sold a lot of bulky
stuff on EBay and warn the purchaser that they should expect delivery in "at
best" a week. Nothing has gotten lost for me via FedEx Ground.

I've come to prefer FedEx Ground over the corresponding UPS service
for one significant reason: damage. Both in my own experience, and
that of the shipping/receiving guy at the company I work for, the odds
of a decently-packaged device being damaged in shipment are
significantly higher if it's sent by UPS.

FedEx seems to be somewhat more gentle with the packages, and (if I'm
shipping and do so via my employer's system) it's less expensive.

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Dave Platt AE6EO
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boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads!

"John Miles" wrote in message

I don't have much use for FedEx Ground, though.

I totally agree. I had a guitar shipped to
me from San Diego (to Alturas, CA)
by FedEx Ground, the shipper's choice.

I watched it move around California for
several days, and then it got stuck in
Reno, NV. A few days later, I got a
notice in my mailbox, that a package
was waiting for me at the Post Office.
FedEx had *mailed* it to me from Reno!!

When I complained, I was told that they
reserved the right to *mail* a Ground
shipment to a "remote" destination!!

Just don't use "Ground".

73, John - K6QQ