Fedex question?

[cubby]

Has anyone else been affected by the shipping company fedex here in the last couple weeks? The company I work for has it happen 4 times in the past 2 weeks. The problem seems to be that fedex made a deal with the usps to help deliver packages. Well get this, and we live in a small town fedex will drop the packages off at the post office and since the package does not have a PO box number on it they will return it to the sender!! Well my boss ordered some stuff off the internet a week ago and gets a second charge on his credit card for a second shipping charge because the company he ordered it from received it back. Has anyone else had this kind of problem with fedex? UPS seems to be great. I mean we are a FORd dealer in a small town you would think that the post office would know where to take it.

 

[av8er]

I made a dumb mistake the other day with shipping

sold a laptop on ebay and shipped it usps without insurance, guy got the laptop and the screen was busted all to hell. he returned it to me and now I'm out $300

 

[zalez]

Sounds like that issue (fedex/usps issue) is something that needs to be taken up with the post office. There should be no reason at all that the post office would return to sender unless there is not an address on the package. I have had packages sent this same way and never had an issue at all.

 

[skidoorulz]

The only reason that the post office wouldn't deliver to a street address would be if that street address was not on a delivery route such as out in the country, Also I think if someone choses to have a box but are on a delivery route, the post office still will not deliver to that address. Is Mac's on a delivery route? But you are right. The people at the post office knows where Mac's is or what their box number is. They should use some common sense and put a package pickup card in the PO box that way they can verify that the correct person is getting the package since it cannot be delivered to an actual address. But hey. we had this discussion in another thread. Government workers are extremely lacking in common sense.

 

[Mafesto]

I am confused.
Why would UPS, FedX or any shipping company drop off a package at the post office and expect them to derliver it?

What am I missing?

 

[skidoorulz]

They do it all the time especially in remote areas and busy times

 

[Mafesto]

They do it all the time especially in remote areas and busy times

I never knew that.
Do they charge FedX, UPS or whomever was originally paid to deliver package?

 

[skidoorulz]

I never knew that.
Do they charge FedX, UPS or whomever was originally paid to deliver package?

Yea Fed Ex or who ever does pay a per package fee to the USPS for the service.

 

[Mafesto]

Crap, it's true.
You DO learn something every day.