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BroSpence 
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 Topic: UPS vs. FedEx
Posted: June 10 2008 at 18:06 |
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Here we have two massive parcel deliverers. Which do you prefer in terms of how much you use it (shipping or receiving), speed, friendliness (customer service, delivery person, ease of use), color scheme, logo, and all other related fields.
I don't know anyone that doesn't like getting a package, and you're bound to get one from one of these two beasts. I personally prefer seeing the big brown UPS truck come by my house in hopes that maybe someone was nice enough to deliver me something. FedEx has been pretty slow for me when I've used them, plus their colors are all wack. I mean white, purple, orange (and two shades of blue if we're talking FedEx Kinkos).
So send me UPS any day!
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Wilcey
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Posted: June 10 2008 at 18:09 |
not much experience of Fed Ex......... but EVERYTIME UPS come here either to deliver or pick up they can't find our house...........EVERYTIME!!! Drives me mad......... no end of parcels end up going back to the depot a gazillion times cos they can't be ars*d to phone us for directions!
grrrrrr!
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Vompatti
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Posted: June 11 2008 at 04:31 |
I like the FedEx Pope from Conan. 
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JayDee
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Posted: June 11 2008 at 04:35 |
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FedEx. Simply because I work for them. Their local partner here in my country is Air21. They offer a money back guarantee.
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Leningrad
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Posted: June 11 2008 at 11:51 |
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Padraic
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Posted: June 11 2008 at 12:44 |
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I guess I have no preference. I don't think I've experienced any problems with either.
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GoldenSpiral
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Posted: June 11 2008 at 12:46 |
Last two times I've ordered something shipped through UPS, they've fouled it up.
They don't seem to understand that most people aren't home during the day, and they pretend to give you the "come back after 5pm" option, just a little sticker you leave on your door, but they never do, then declare the package undeliverable. I had to go downtown to the UPS depot to pick it up before they shipped it back to the seller. This has happened on 2 different occasions.
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Padraic
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Posted: June 11 2008 at 12:54 |
 GoldenSpiral wrote:
Last two times I've ordered something shipped through UPS, they've fouled it up.
They don't seem to understand that most people aren't home during the day, and they pretend to give you the "come back after 5pm" option, just a little sticker you leave on your door, but they never do, then declare the package undeliverable. I had to go downtown to the UPS depot to pick it up before they shipped it back to the seller. This has happened on 2 different occasions. |
This problem arises when the seller demands a signature. Luckily most of the stuff I order doesn't, and they'll leave it on my front porch. But when a signature is required, it's a pain in the ass - I really have no choice but to pick it up at the depot after work. If your workplace is not averse to such things, one could just get it shipped there, I suppose - I'm going to do that in the future when a sig is required.
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Citizen
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Posted: June 11 2008 at 16:18 |
FedEx. In my experience UPS is slow, rude, handles packages poorly and doesn't update their tracking very well. And when my package requires a signature, they take it back to their hub if I'm not there when it arrives, whereas FedEx puts a nice little sticker on my door with a signature line, then they come back the next day, collect the sticker with my signature on it, and leave the package.
To be honest, even USPS gets me my packages better than UPS does.
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This is my signature.
Amazing, isn't it?
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Dean
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Posted: June 11 2008 at 18:15 |
prog-chick wrote:
not much experience of Fed Ex......... but EVERYTIME UPS come here either to deliver or pick up they can't find our house...........EVERYTIME!!! Drives me mad......... no end of parcels end up going back to the depot a gazillion times cos they can't be ars*d to phone us for directions!
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We get that *a lot* (DHL  ) The road we live on passes through 'our' village, crosses the A31 and goes onto the next village a few miles away. On arriving at the next village, the house numbering starts all over again, so I have an antipodal-neighbour who lives at the same house number on the same road, all be it a mile or so apart (and aside from the minor difference of it being a completely different village name and Post Code  ). Yup - you guessed it - we get their deliveries and they get ours. Which is a major pain as they run a small business from home and have frequent deliveries of curtain material. Had I kept it all I could have furnished Liz & Phil Winsor with a full set of curtains for Buck Palace at a very reasonable price.
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What?
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Finnforest
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Posted: June 11 2008 at 20:18 |
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UPS, because they use union labor.
Frankly thought, the regular postal service always does a fine job in my experience. I see no reason to use Fedex or UPS.
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Man With Hat
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Posted: June 11 2008 at 21:35 |
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UPS.
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: June 11 2008 at 21:38 |
Hey, I heard they're going to merge. The new company's going to be called FedUp. 
Edited by Slartibartfast - June 11 2008 at 21:47
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Padraic
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Posted: June 11 2008 at 21:42 |
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: June 11 2008 at 21:47 |
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Padraic
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Posted: June 11 2008 at 22:08 |
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KoS
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Posted: June 11 2008 at 22:19 |
It's irrelevant. Both get more action with their short shorts than all of PA put together. 
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Statutory-Mike
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Posted: June 11 2008 at 22:24 |
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FedEx, they be fast
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crimhead
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Posted: June 11 2008 at 23:06 |
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USPS. They are the third largest employer in the U.S.A.
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