Fedex ??

[Jack Hanson]

Fedex not a place you would want too start a career at.
Just a place to work until something better comes along especially for the delivery drivers who works for a company that’s leases a fleet of trucks too Fedex.

It's been my experience that our local FedEx delivery contractor employs crooked drivers. Hope it's not like that everywhere else. Beware of Sweetwater's free delivery if they're shipping FedEx. It may take three months, three separate shipments, and three police reports before you receive what you paid for. That's only my latest negative experience with FedEx. Most any shipment can be a gamble. Despite the recent attempts to emasculate the US Postal Service, they're still the best bet, in my opinion.

[Steve Spitz]

I hate Fedex the least, with UPS a close second. I don’t trust any of them to admit where an item is as times . USPS is shady on tracking as well.

[Jimmie Hudson]

I have been shipping guitars for 10 years now,
I used FedEx 2 times and had to replace both guitars due to they destroyed them. Used UPS about 100 times and had one lost and one broken in half and they did not pay the claim on the one they drove a fork lift through.
Have used USPS for over 5800 guitars. so far with good luck.
A few took a day or two longer to get to the customer but got there as they should in good condition.
I'm staying with USPS myself.

[Steve Spitz]

USPS has gotten a bit less than accurate with tracking Lately, but if you can deal with that,
They may be less objectionable. I honestly feel at times they have no idea where or when a package might be, Just saying “ in transit” ....

Those are respectable numbers Jimmy, I’m glad that’s worked out for you.

[Peter Harris]

I know that you guys are having troubles...Down Here in Oz, we have a mythical being called "Australia Post"...when it suits them, they are a Government Instrumentality....when that gets too hot for them, they say that it's all due to the fact that 90% of their outlets are Privately-Owned Franchises...oh yes, and that "COVID-thing" which is causing them to be SO over-stressed because everybody is posting parcels and not letters any more...

I originally thought that my "record" was a MIG welder that took 1 month & 3 days to get from Sydney to Adelaide...a distance of about 1000 miles...no-one could tell me where the thing was and the supplier eventually agreed to replace it..

In the end, the 'original' turned up four days before the 'replacement'...which was then sent back another 1000 miles..who knows how long THAT took...

Then, they broke their own World Record a couple of months back when it took 5 MONTHS to get a small parcel from England to Adelaide....


The use of Fedex and/or UPS to send stuff overseas from Oz is mostly out-of-the-question because of the astronomical costs involved, and then they have the gaul to ask for another 30 bucks on top to pick the item up if I don't feel like driving a 70-mile round trip to their dispatch office..

The (music-based) electronics I build and send around the World cause me no end of sleepless nights as to whether the stuff will get there at all, let alone in one piece... ...in the end I hand it over the counter at my local post office franchise, heart-in-mouth as it disappears into the back room..

All tracking has been unreliable here for months.

Rest assured, people...you are NOT alone in this mess...

[Jim Pitman]

I second USPS.

[David Zornes]

USPS May be better. Fed Ex destroyed a steel guitar case I sent out. If we could see how they handle heavy equipment from warehouse to warehouse we would literally cringe and close our eyes.

[Erv Niehaus]

FedEx damaged an Emmons p/p for me and I had to take them to court to get any kind of settlement.
Erv

[Larry Bressington]

If you've ever sat on an airline seat for a fly date and stared out the window as they load the planes, you will understand how things are treated in the parcel industry. I watched my D10 shobud get 'thrown'....he humped it up on his shoulder from a crouched position and threw it.....from the luggage rack to the aircraft door, i cringed and pulled hair and new words were born, the plane shook when the steel landed in the plane, and someone near me said; Wow that was a big one!!!! when i got to my destination 2 knee levers were broke off, (these were not pig metal ones), that's when i learn't you better cable tie/tape them together before shipping.....i'm not trying to be negative pals, it's just a reality.