FedEx Corporation Consumer Reviews - Page 4

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA -- I shipped four VTR boxes to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California after being repaired by our shop in North Hollywood, CA. We used FedEx ground shipping. FedEx is neglecting to send an adjuster or inspector to evaluate the machines for repair the damages caused by their irresponsible shipping and transporting methods. Insurance was purchased in the event of such anomalies caused by their negligence to properly protect the equipment from been damaged.

Below are the 4 tracking numbers given during the shipping process. All shipping charges have been paid to Federal Express and they still are not acknowledging responsibility for their actions. Tracking number **. I am thinking very seriously not using them again for my professional shipping service. I do have another company www.shipalliannce.com that they do a very good job shipping equipment and never have damaged anything like FedEx has.

I am still awaiting from FedEx to contact me back since I have left several phone messages for the claims department agent. "They quit working at 2:00 pm California time." Sometimes they will have me wait as much as 15 minutes on the telephone line. Any suggestion on getting some help here?

CAPITOL HEIGHTS, MARYLAND -- FedEx has allegedly delivered my package to me according to the tracking info. It says I signed for it and everything! However, I did not sign for anything and it is now 9 days before my wedding which will be out of the Country and I have no wedding dress or anything in my closest as a possible backup. Which means, I will have to go around town trying to find a summer white beach destination wedding dress in February!

The driver states he did not deliver any packages to this address all week, yet he scanned and marked the package as delivered. How does a company stay in business by not following the proper procedures? You're not curing cancer your dropping off packages. Is it really hard to remember not to mark the packages as delivered, until they are actually being delivered and to the right person. I ordered plenty of things online and this is the first time my package has been lost/ delivered to wrong address.

I'm scared to repurchase online that I would actually get it and would it be in time, and now have to take my chances with whatever is on the racks. My mother says it's a sign that I shouldn't even be getting married and this has added so much more stress and jitters to an already stressful time. Thanks Fed Ex for throwing such a curve ball in what was supposed to have been one of the happiest days of my life. I might even have to wait until I get there and hope I can find something.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS -- It's good to know that I'm not the only one who has a problem with FedEx ground delivery service. What amazes me most is FedEx continues to let the drivers get away with it. Not all FedEx drivers are bad, just the ones I've dealt with lately. And it's true about some of the post that said when they tracked their packages on FedEx's website. They get the read out of a package estimate delivery date only to find out later that the message has been up-dated to: delivery exception, customer unavailable, or business closed. Having personally experienced this a number of times myself an with the driver not leaving any form indicating he/she was here.

The way I see it is the problem is three folds. Accountability. Poor business management. Lack of communication. Allow me to explain....Accountability...No one is held accountable as far as I can tell for repeated mistakes by FedEx drivers. Poor business management....FedEx sub leases some of its deliverers to independent drivers saving FedEx money but causing some customers aggravation in the form of drivers who don't know their routes and rather than admit it. They simply say the customer was unavailable and the FedEx facility having no way to verify the driver attempted a delivery, simply assume the delivery was made.

Lack of communications...Once a customer calls FedEx and inquires about their package/s they are told it is out on the truck for delivery. You never get the facility the driver works out of, just the 800 main facility. The agent politely tells you “We have no way of contacting the driver once the driver leaves the station, however we will call the station the driver works out of and leave a message and someone will call you back later to inform you of status of your package.”

My experience has been a hit and miss scenario...mostly miss. I've called fed-ex and e-mailed them to suggest they put some form of communication in the truck with the drivers so the station the driver works out of can contact the driver on a moments notice to avoid problems such as these in the future. It doesn't have to be anything elaborate or fancy... A cell phone with a direct link to the station and driver could do just as well.

When the suggestion was made, you can imagine the response I got. It's safe to say it won't be happening anytime soon. Granted I don't live in the best of neighborhoods, but FedEx is in the delivery business and the drivers it hires knows this as well, plus the fact that... And I've seen this for myself, some drivers will drive by a place of delivery and see a bunch of people hanging outside and decide right then and there they're not going to make the delivery.

As a fed-ex driver you know that you might have to make deliveries anywhere and everywhere your assigned route. In all fairness to the drivers however I also concede that sometimes circumstances beyond the drivers control can account for packages being late or damaged, but when the offense is repeated over 3/4 the time, at the same address, rather that lie and say the business was closed or customer was unavailable, just tell the truth... Some of you was to scared to make that particular delivery.

Because I'm handicapped, I do a lot of shopping online and don't need the aggravation of wondering if my packages might get delivered. Add to the fact that there are 3 adults here and there is always an adult here to receive my packages, then there is no reason I should have to go through these changes just to get a package. Like most delivery companies fed-ex offer pick up option...You or your agent can pick up your package/s at a fed-ex facility. That's not a viable option...

When you pay for shipping and handling for a package, you expect it to be delivered to your door (not you have to pick it up at a fed-ex facility... (If you do pick up your package/s from any delivery service, will they reimburse you for shipping)? Ha! Ha! What a joke.

Anyway, thanks for letting me get this off my chest, the problem is still there but I feel much better knowing that there are others out there like me who understand the frustration of having to deal with a company that seems to not care about its customers.

HILLSBORO, OREGON -- We just recently signed up online and on the phone with FedEx for a business account to ship our merchandise via FedEx. We were asked lots of questions when we signed up but were never informed that FedEx has a policy of NOT paying for anything breakable shipped through them. We shipped a $700 framed print (not behind glass) and the customer complained that the frame was broken. We had FedEx schedule an examination of the item and then they repackaged it and sent it back to us. They sent us a letter saying there was "no visible damage" to the item.

When the package was returned to us even the delivery person admitted that it looked like it had cartwheeled down the highway. It was in such bad shape. FedEx did not rewrap the print in its original packaging or put the peanuts back in the box - they simply dropped this large framed print in the box, put two piece of tape on the lid and shipped it back. One whole corner of the box was missing when it got back to us and the frame was completely demolished having broken off in all Four Corners and chunks of the frame was missing.

When we complained to FedEx they ADMITTED that they were responsible for the damage but refused to pay the claim since it was considered "art" and they will not pay to replace "art". We were never informed of their policy and when they did send us a copy of their policy. It states that they do not pay claims ON PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING. You can imagine - the list was a mile long. So FedEx CHARGES you to buy extra insurance to cover your item and then refuses to pay the claim based on this "hidden" policy which makes it possible for them to get out of paying a claim for any item you ship with them.

They offer to pay a maximum of $100 but that will not even replace the cost of the frame so I'm out $700 and the FedEx people just rip people off selling them "insurance" when they know they don't have to pay for any claims submitted. They readily admit damage but then turn around and refuse to pay for the damage. I will NEVER use FedEx again and intend to make as much noise about this as possible. FedEx petitions people for their business but never tells them that they will be charging them for insurance that they will not pay - they have quite a racket going for them.

Can you imagine the millions of dollars FedEx collects in "insurance" and then they refuse to pay claims? SHAME ON FEDEX - their company should be shut down for mail fraud! I have pictures and have documented everything so if anyone wants to know more just let me know. I intend to notify every newspaper across the United States and every business about their scam. Go with UPS - they honor their insurance claims.

MAURY COUNTY, TENNESSEE -- Just before Christmas, 2010, while I was out buying dog food, a FedEx driver came into my yard to deliver a package (I guess) and killed my dog and left him in the snow to die without even checking the dog's injuries or notifying me until asked about it by law enforcement. I was gone only a little over an hour. The week before, the dog had barked at the driver and he left furious and cursing under his breath, so I didn't even have to think about who did it. The most unnerving aspect of the incident was that the dog had no signs of being "accidentally run over" as the lying bum told me and law enforcement.

The "detective" assigned to "investigate" the incident never even saw the scene where it happened, never saw a single photo of the scene, and formed his "opinion" about what happened without even letting me know that he was finished with his "investigation." I was told by [snip] "That's Messed Up!" website, that it was assumed that the driver "accidentally hung him with the bumper while backing out." This is the type of generalizing and stupidity that causes so many crimes to go unsolved.

Had this "judge/detective" gotten off his butt and done his job properly he would have seen that NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD "BACK" OUT OF MY DRIVEWAY!! It has a large area, similar to a cul-de-sac that allows for a car, truck, or even a semi to pull in and without any "backing" at all, circle and leave. The house was previously owned by a semi driver and I'm sure that is what he designed the driveway for.

In addition, like the other story here, my driveway is over a quarter mile, close to 1/2 mile long. The dog was a registered German Shepard in prime condition, 10 months old, and I have no doubt whatsoever that a truck traveling at 10 mph would be able to run over his head (the only place there was trauma) with him giving it his full attention. Also the dog wasn't in the driveway; he was in the grass approx. 10' from the driveway and approx. 110 yards from where the package was left! There was no gravel or tread marks anywhere on the dog and no blood or hair or even disturbed gravel anywhere in the area! (Very light grey gravel just washed by melting snow).

When asked if FedEx would replace my dog, their spokesman said that he had been in "contact with the family and expressed their condolences." THIS IS A BLATANT LIE! There is no "family" as I live alone and the only contact I've had from FedEx was the liar who came to deliver another package the next day after law enforcement started asking them about it. He said that he did not drive the day my dog was killed. He admitted he was the one my dog barked at, and he was delivering on the day he told me this lie, but it was an anonymous "someone else" who actually killed the dog, he just "forgot to contact me" after he told the "guilty driver" that "I will handle it".

It was a driver who was "so upset" that he left my home and felt he should tell his supervisor-the liar I was talking to. Not to tell me anything or see if the dog needed a vet. No note was left, no phone call until the "detective" told him to call me and say something. My dog was at home minding his business. He would come to anyone offering him a snack. EVEN-IF-HE-HAD-PREVIOUSLY-BARKED-AT-YOU!!! "Seek first to understand-THEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD!!!!!"- Steven Covey. THIS IS MY H_O_M_E, NOT TO BE VIOLATED IN SUCH A WAY BY A_N_Y_O_N_E!!!

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE -- I am a blind business owner and requested assistance with shipment of my office equipment November 2009 from Texas to Colorado. The agent on the phone said she had no problem assisting me and there would be no charge for the help since I was visually impaired. I requested the shipment be sent to my office receiving station in Colorado and the company refused to deliver to a competitors address. I made arrangements for the shipment to be delivered to FedEx Express. Later it was discovered Ground Drivers made snide remarks about shipping hear as well.

The order was placed for the equipment to be picked up on Tuesday November 17, and I waited all day, and no one showed up. I called in around 6:00 PM to be informed they would not come until next day. On Wednesday the driver finally showed up with no help, no dolly and attempted to move my equipment from my home office to his personal vehicle as advised by one of my neighbors who was helping me. Rather than having my equipment damaged my neighbor retrieved my personal dolly from the garage and then returned when driver finished loading. All cartons were labeled and ready to go when driver arrived.

I contacted again and requested a second shipment on Thursday and this time they sent two drivers who proceeded to take boxes at random rather than what was marked for shipment. They were unprofessional and very rude. After shipping my equipment the trouble began firs there is a box stolen from my shipment containing valued electronic equipment and then there was destruction of CCR TV used by me and my staff who are all blind. We submitted a claim for damaged goods and was insulted again by James who works at the local office stating that FedEx would not honor a damage claim from my business.

I am refusing to pay for delivery until they replace all my damaged goods, make the invoices correct and cease attempting to charge me with service I did not order. They are attempting to charge me with Call Tags never requested. They are charging return charges that never occurred. And then there is the damage of more than $5,000 of which they have made a trivial payment in the amount of $400. I will be cancelling service with this company after 20+ years and will use the competition as I refused to be abused and subjected to predatory practices because I am blind.

As a business owner and shipper it is my choice where to have products delivered business to business not Federal Express Ground. It is my right to file claims for damaged goods due to poor handling of clearly marked goods. It is my right to receive quality service and performance as a blind person just as if I were sighted. It is time business stop attempting to take advantage of visually impaired business owners.

Seems strange they would lie to public "FedEx is committed to providing outstanding customer experience, to being a great place to work, a thoughtful steward of the environment and a caring citizen in the communities where we live and work. At FedEx, we are passionate about sustainably connecting people and places and improving the quality of life around the world:". This quote is from their website. How can it possibly be true if this type of customer treatment is to be allowed. FedEx Customer Relations.

What a heart warming and complementary story about UPS (Posted By: ** on 2/9/2010). I only wish today's large Corporations were as compassionate, reliable and understanding. My nightmare experience with FedEx Ground Home Delivery has been just the opposite. It all started when on February 3, I placed an online order for a LCD computer monitor with Dell, Inc. It was estimated to be delivered in 5 to 7 days. Sure enough, Dell's appointed shipper, FedEx Ground, brought it to my home town, Baltimore, within 5 days. But for the last 4 days, the package has been enjoying joy rides on FedEx Home Delivery truck, a separate unit of FedEx. I will explain.

Initially it was scheduled for delivery on February 9, but did not reach me. Second and third time, it was scheduled for delivery on February 12 and February 13 respectively, and again it was not delivered. Each time it was scheduled for delivery, I have had to stay home the entire day to receive and sign for the package. After lugging it around in the area the truck returns to FedEx Home distribution facility and a staff person enters its status in the computer as "Delivery Exception due to Weather, Attempted Delivery".

Yes we have had considerable snowfall this year, but on the days of scheduled delivery it has been bright and shiny and the traffic has moved at a reasonable pace. I can understand FedEx may have had difficulty delivering it on February 9 but surely FedEx Home should have been able to deliver it on February 12. This of course only makes sense if FedEx Ground was more organized and planned their deliveries based on what can be delivered in a day and delivered packages received first.

Calls to FedEx have resulted in little help. Ditto to my calls to Dell, who incidentally have their customer service representatives sitting some 8,000 miles away and have little clue as to the appointed shipper. Dell representative's best suggestion is that I should just wait until the package is delivered to me! In the meantime, I shudder every time FedEx Home website alerts me my package is on the truck for delivery as it means another day holed up in my home. Scrabble anyone?

SHARON, PENNSYLVANIA -- It all began when I ordered a laptop from Dell. Mind you, this was a month or so ago. I got the email that it had shipped, so I was excited. When I tried the tracking number it gave me an error that said invalid tracking number or something. So I called Dell to see what was up and they gave me the correct number. I thought all was well until it just sat there. After a few days I called FedEx to see what was going on and I was told that they couldn't find the package. This made me mad... I ended up being bounced back to Dell, they claimed Dell never sent the package, but Dell said they did so I gave up for the day.

A few days after this I woke up and had a nagging feeling so I went outside to look around and there it was MY NEW LAPTOP covered in snow on my NEIGHBOR'S porch! We don't live in the greatest neighborhood so I was none too pleased about this because I was told it required a signature. It was over though. I had my laptop until it broke. Dell sent a box and I thought all was well, but it never came. Then my neighbor pounds on my door and asked if the box was mine.

It was blowing around in the yard because they left it on their porch once again. I got my box, at least. Packed my laptop up called to schedule a pickup. Thought all was well, man was I wrong. I was told that they can't schedule pickups past 3 in my area and they would be here to pick it up at 12:30. 12:30 rolls around, then 1, 2... I called and asked where they were and was met by a woman who said the representative I spoke to yesterday messed up, they can't schedule ground pickups and that it showed they were here at 12:47.

I said they weren't, what's the address, and of course I was met with the wrong street! I lost it on the lady, and she agreed with everything I said. She said I could wait till Monday, or drop it off at a FedEx in my area. Well we have none in my area. So I told her that was not an option. They made all the mistakes. They can come pick it up TODAY.

Just 5 minutes ago they came to pick it up. I guess every so often it pays to air your opinion. Now I'm waiting to see what happens when my laptop returns, oh the fun that is to be had... Use UPS or USPS don't waste your time on these clowns!

UPDATE: 3/02/09. I got my laptop back today and the delivery guy was very apologetic for what happened. He said they got A LOT of complaints about the other guy and they switched his route or something. I'm still not going to use them, unless I absolutely have to. I'm just glad I didn't have to pull teeth to get a simple thing done.

TEXAS -- Well, this goes for those ignorant people that do not get informed before using a company. I personally think FedEx is a terrific company. If anyone needs to know about their Declared Value (which, NO, its not 'insurance'):

*Declared value is never to be considered Insurance, cause no we aren't going to give you the coverage Farmers Insurance does.

*For any jewelry and such, you are LIMITED to $500.00. (So if you go to one of the staffed facilities and they tell you they can put $501.00, NO its not going to be valid)

*If you think just cause your package got stolen or lost does it mean you are going to be refunded anything. A claim is a claim. Be reasonable.

*Don't call and say "hey, my shipper stuffed an antique vase into a brown box with no bubble wrap or foam, it arrived in pieces, can you give me the $6,000 that were declared?" haha cause no its not going to happen.

If you need to know about the Ground Services, well chances are, you're never going to get your package lol.
Anything Ground or Home Delivery, well you're pretty much... the **. Why? Because, yes, FedEx uses subcontractors that half the time don't give a rats butt if you ever get your Home Delivery package, which by the way, I've seen be delivered at very VERY late hours of the day.

If you're going to ship internationally, I suggest you INFORM yourselves about customs documentation!! Don't expect FedEx to 'assume' you sent the package with proper documentation. Then there is a customs clearance delay, you yell your lungs at the CSR's because of YOUR mistakes. Face it, shippers make their stupid mistakes as well. I got a caller once asking for a freaking telephone # for a DROP BOX. Do you know what a DROP BOX is?? It's a box, in the middle of a street. Now tell me, if a drop box had a phone, who would answer it?? EXACTLY!

Oh yeah, keep your tracking numbers, Please!! We aren't magicians. We are not going to look for a tracking # with your telephone # or with your social security. Capisce? I suggest people inform themselves before shipping. And I do apologize for those who felt as if I came out as rude, but I guess working for them is no help. I do feel as SOME people are in fact ignorant. Not everyone of course. I think the job gets frustrating, when those ignorant few call 600 times asking you for UPS's phone #. Or when they yell at you at the top of their lungs for not being able to find their package that they shipped out 2 years ago, and they have ABSOLUTELY no info.

Some people need to realize, "hey the CSR didn't lose my package, I'll try and take it easy." But we need to face a lot of facts here, a lot of big corporations nowadays simply don't give a ** about customers anymore. Why? Because they have so many customers, it won't really affect them if they lose one. I don't agree with this form of handling customers at all, but I doubt one voice can be heard. I suggest, be firm! And please get informed. If anyone has any questions about the different services FedEx offers, please ask. I'd be more than happy to point you out to what would be a better pick for you. So once again, I apologize for the rudeness and hostility.

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS -- We've all got stories of how companies no longer care enough about our business. Somewhere in the growth of a business, it seems the customer often comes last when setting policy or when, on the local level, management interprets policy for the convenience of themselves and not their customers. Case in point, a recent encounter I had at FedEx while in Boston.

I found a FedEx 2 blocks down from my hotel (187 Dartmouth Street) and arrived at the store around 7:15 pm on a Tuesday night. The FedEx website had indicated last express drop-off as being 7:30 pm. I made some copies for the shipment, completed the air bill for the shipment, put everything in my envelope and sealed it. By now it was about 7:25 pm and I got in a short line with 2 people in front of me. The lady being serviced was doing more than just dropping off an envelope. She was having a FedEx box assembled by the one clerk working the FedEx cash register so it was taking extra time.

At 7:29 pm, having advanced not one bit since the packing job was still taking up the one clerk at the FedEx register, ** (perhaps the manager on duty?) announced that it was 7:30 and he needed to close out the FedEx drawer and all persons waiting in line needed to go elsewhere. Prominently positioned just above his head was a clock that clearly indicated the time as being 7:29 pm. I immediately challenged him, pointing to the clock just above his head and showing it was 7:29, not 7:30.

** came back with, "Sir, I said it was 7:30 and it is 7:30." "First it is not 7:30. Your own clock shows it is 7:29. More to the point, you have customers waiting in line. We got in here on time, completed our documents, and are only waiting because you don't have enough people able to process FedEx packages."

"Sir, I'm closing the drawer. You can leave your package here, but it will not go out until tomorrow." I then asked, "What is the rush? Is the driver here? Is the driver standing around waiting on us?" "No, the driver hasn't arrived, but he can come in at any moment. The drawer is closed. You'll have to take your package elsewhere if you want it to go out today." He then directed me to another location where they would take packages until 8:30 pm. I whipped out my cell phone, approached **, and took his picture for the record. I then phoned FedEx and filed a complaint.

Two days later I got a call from management, **, backing up **, saying it was policy that anyone waiting in line when the management decided it was cut-off time would not get a package on the next truck. When I pointed out again that we were only in line because FedEx didn't have enough people working the register, it meant nothing. When I pointed out that ** had acknowledged the driver was nowhere to be found so he was not, in fact, waiting around to pick up packages, it meant nothing. ** indicated it might be a mistake to post the last drop-off time as 7:30 and perhaps they'd change it to 7:15.

Do you recall when FedEx was a brilliant young company, striving to deliver incredible customer service? It grew quickly because it could deliver on time, as the FedEx marketing campaign stated, "when it absolutely positively" must get to your destination. The FedEx boost in those early years was a jab at the United States Postal Service and a bureaucracy that just didn't seem to really care about the customer.

I thought to myself, as I fumed over this most recent encounter with FedEx, how ** and ** would really do much better working for the post office. Besides, they'd have union protection behind them (FedEx is non-union) and the possibility of getting fired for putting the customer last would almost disappear.