Shipping Horror Stories - Do Tell

oxnard111

Creative RE Purchasing
I hate Fedex. They screwed me up so bad on the last 750 sx I parted out. They broke my side rails that I sold. Two packages I sent in one day were sent to each opposite address I had to have that fixed, and one of those items arrived damaged. Then on another day when I was shipping like 6 items they shipped two items to the same person that was only suppose to receive one item. From now on if I do use fedex it is from my computer where they can't mess up the shipping locations. But DHL has been good for me, no mix ups with them.

I also had the same problem with parcel post as in the first post. It took like 4 weeks to get something from Cali to TN.

Another problem I am presently having is that I cannot use UPS with my paypal account. Everytime I go print a shipping label it tells me that I have filled in one of the fields incorrectly, yet it doesn't say which field is incorrect. I have been on the phone with paypal and they cannot figure it out either. The only thing the last customer service rep suggested was to cancel my present paypal account and open another one and see if that fixes the problem. That is bull.
 
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I have had pretty good luck with both UPS and USPS, never have used FedEx though. Parcel Post is risky, but I have not had an issue, and have shipped approx. 200 ebay items using it. Flat rate Priority boxes are awesome though, $8.10 for anything that will fit in the box up to 40 lbs! I never use UPS anymore unless I am shipping a motor. I have had things show up really really late, but that is the seller's fault in my experience, or they sent via Media Mail or some bull. -Kurt
 

meatball

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Location
Maryland
Never had a problem with shipping. I always use UPS, because I know our local guy from work. I can also ship stuff via UPS from work for very good prices via my job's discount through them. I can get a round trip ticket for a crated engine insured to 1,000 dollars for about 40 bucks :cool2:
 
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