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FED EX SMARTPOST

meem120 — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 22:24:27 GMT

I hate it!! There I said it...it takes forever to receive anything. I wish we could have a choice like before. You can count on on extra 4 to 5 days to recive your order from them. Its awful.

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chickenbutt — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 22:32:07 GMT

My experience with this service, as well as the UPS counterpart, has been that it travels to the destination city in the same exact amount of time that it would otherwise take by ground, then it goes to the appropriate post office and is delivered by USPS the very next day.

So, it just adds one more day to the delivery time but I guess it's a deal the carriers strike between them that makes it much less expensive of a shipping choice.

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Biftu — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 22:34:25 GMT

Guess I have been lucky and recieved my items on time. Plus I do like that they are delivered to my back porch and not left on my front porch steps.

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PINKdogWOOD — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 22:35:16 GMT

I don't find FedEx smartpost to be any faster or not than UPS shipping to my local post office for deliveries. As long as I get my stuff in a reasonible amt of time, I guess I don't really care who drops it off.

I will say I'm glad I'm home now every day so I can be watching for my goodies so I can grab them off my porch before a stranger does.

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GCR18 — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 23:04:35 GMT

I find that smartpost adds one day to my packages. They actually come quicker if it's a Saturday delivery.

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Kachina624 — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 23:23:14 GMT

@chickenbutt wrote:
My experience with this service, as well as the UPS counterpart, has been that it travels to the destination city in the same exact amount of time that it would otherwise take by ground, then it goes to the appropriate post office and is delivered by USPS the very next day.

So, it just adds one more day to the delivery time but I guess it's a deal the carriers strike between them that makes it much less expensive of a shipping choice.

The very next day OR whenever they feel like it.

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GSPgirl — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 23:42:21 GMT

I don't like it either, but my UPS lady said its here to stay because companies are saving a lot of money doing this.

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Desertdi — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 10:13:51 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@chickenbutt wrote:
My experience with this service, as well as the UPS counterpart, has been that it travels to the destination city in the same exact amount of time that it would otherwise take by ground, then it goes to the appropriate post office and is delivered by USPS the very next day.

So, it just adds one more day to the delivery time but I guess it's a deal the carriers strike between them that makes it much less expensive of a shipping choice.

The very next day OR whenever they feel like it.

The UPS trucks that I've seen in my neighborhood are packed to the roof....even a "hoarder" would cringe. The delivery guys park in the middle of the block......and literally DIG through the truck to retrieve packages, and then "walk" them to the houses.

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ID2 — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 11:13:16 GMT

I really cringed when I moved from the big city to a complete rural area recently. But I haven't had any delivery problems yet. My Smartpost deliveries only take a day longer. But, remarkably I receive my packages at record speed!

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PINKdogWOOD — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 12:11:27 GMT

Last week I had a delivery from a guy who was working out of a large budget rental truck. He had a milk crate type box on wheels and was walking the neighborhood filled with stuff he was delivering. He was in street clothes.

Friday I saw my mailman who had just stopped in one part of my neighborhood, opened the back of his vehicle and packages literally fell out to the street.

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KingstonsMom — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 18:33:21 GMT

@PINKdogWOOD wrote:
Last week I had a delivery from a guy who was working out of a large budget rental truck. He had a milk crate type box on wheels and was walking the neighborhood filled with stuff he was delivering. He was in street clothes.

Friday I saw my mailman who had just stopped in one part of my neighborhood, opened the back of his vehicle and packages literally fell out to the street.

@PINKdogWOOD

Oh great.....there goes Aunt Martha's crystal vase!

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JHJH — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 19:21:52 GMT

I agree...don't like it either. Usually adds 3 days to shipping time. My DB TSV sat in Atlanta for 3 days...I prefer UPS delivery. VB also uses it now and sometimes also LE. Always takes longer where I live in Central FL.

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CouponQueen — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 19:31:09 GMT

Not a fan either...it takes forever.

I ordered something on 12/2/15...arrived on 12/19.

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luvsbulldogs — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 19:33:52 GMT

Years back I would order something and get it withinn 3 days from the day that it was shipped. That was using UPS. We live in the country and UPS has not been delivering here for several years. Now the packages take between 7 to 10 days to deliver and that is from the same companies.

We were waiting for a package that we had to sign for and Fed Ex was the delivery company. I checked online and also phoned Fed Ex and was told that the delivery date was to be today. On Friday we came home and there was a note on the door stating that Fed Ex was here and that because there was no one home at the time that they could not leave the package. I mean hello I do not have a crystal ball telling me that they changed the delivery date without notification. I once again phoned Fed Ex and they told me that it would be here on Tues. Luckly we were home today and guess what.....they delivered it today.

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FranCNY — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 20:58:06 GMT

It could be worse -you could be dealing with the DHLequivalent. My DH buys computer parts from a firm in NJ and lighter items they send via DHL that delivers them to the local PO for delivery. We live in Upstate NY and he has seen packages travel via DHL to Ohio to NY City area to Buffalo and then to our local PO for delivery - it took 10 days to go from NJ to Upstate NY.

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Miranda1550 — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 02:14:33 GMT

What is a SmartPost delivery?

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icezeus — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 02:19:55 GMT

My smartpost deliveries take one day longer. Every blue moon it might take two.

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icezeus — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 02:21:47 GMT

@Miranda1550

It's when the packages are transferred from Fed Ex or UPS to your local post office for delivery.

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luvsbulldogs — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 03:55:27 GMT

@FranCNY wrote:
It could be worse -you could be dealing with the DHLequivalent. My DH buys computer parts from a firm in NJ and lighter items they send via DHL that delivers them to the local PO for delivery. We live in Upstate NY and he has seen packages travel via DHL to Ohio to NY City area to Buffalo and then to our local PO for delivery - it took 10 days to go from NJ to Upstate NY.

@FranCNY

Most everything we get the past couple of years comes first with either FedEX Smartpost, or UPS. We live out in the boonies in NH and it takes the usual 5 to 6 days with UPS and then to USPS and then 3 more days.

I have tracked packages that were coming from Ma. to here by way of south to RI, then Connecticut, to Vermont back to NH. One time it even went to Va. and back to here. I gave up trying to figure it all out. This year they already lost 2 packages, one from QVC. Ordered it back in mid Nov. and they cannot find it. To think that my insurance company wants me to have all 9 of my scripts delivered to my house! One time a small package was hung on our mailbox which is 400 feet through a wodded area to our house, A snow plow hit it and pushed it about a 1/2 mile from our house. No way am I having perscriptions delivered here! If it is something expensive or important I now have it delivered ot our daughters house where UPS delivers right to her front porch. BTW she also lives in a wooded area.