Never ship anything by Fedex Smartpost

dude807

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This post is more of a warning then a question. On monday, 12-16-13 i purchased computer parts from newegg, the parts were quite expensive so i selected The super eggsaver option. I clicked it and thought it would be a good idea. But i was wrong. It took two days for the package to depart from the fedex station. After that the tracker went silent for a day, then the next day, then the next day, 5 days later, the fedex tracker finally updated, It said that my package had arrived at another facility 2 hours hours away from the original facility. 5 days. 5 days. To ship the package to another facility 2 hours away.
This is just unacceptable. It arrived to the destination on the estimated delivery day. I could have walked there and back faster. Now i have to wait 5 more days for my package to arrive. Here's the tracking data as proof.

- 12/23/2013 - Monday
5:48 am
Arrived at FedEx location
FEDEX SMARTPOST CLINTON, PA
- 12/18/2013 - Wednesday
8:35 pm
Departed FedEx location
FEDEX SMARTPOST ALLENTOWN, PA
5:04 am
Arrived at FedEx location
FEDEX SMARTPOST ALLENTOWN, PA
- 12/17/2013 - Tuesday
6:10 pm
Shipment information sent to FedEx

The moral of this post is, pay for ups. It's worth the 3 extra dollars. Fedex smartpost is a awful service that really just should not exist.
 

Tradesman1

Legenda in Aeternum
Yeah, have had that happen to me a couple of times - it's OK if no hurry - but you never know how they will send anything unless you specify (and pay extra) from their CA location I've used that EggSaver and had them send via this Smart Post, UPS , DHL and On Trac - it's like they want you to pay extra - if I get lucky and it's On Trac it's generally there next day - but FedEx Smart Post drags things out 5-7 days