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No problems so far.

I've had good experience with FedEx and poor experience with UPS. In fact, just this year, I bought myself a birthday gift from amazon.com and had it shipped (for free) via UPS. UPS screwed up the order and it eventually went back. I was pissed. :mad: At least amazon.com refunded me the money after I sent a couple e-mails. So I didn't get to buy myself a b-day gift this year. :( :lol:

Edit: BTW, this was my 1,000th post on SlickDeals.net! :woot:

I hate USPS.. what a freaking joke.

I get mail in my PO Box in which the number and name are not even remotely close to my own. This happens all the time. I can only imagine how much mail I lose from the carelessness of these people.

My mom has ordered a lot of things from the same store. They used to have Fedex. One time they left a box with over $1,000 worth of stuff out in the snow on the opposite side of my deck. There was an overhang about ten feet away over the back door and the products used to get here more slowly. With UPS the products gets here second day. The last delivery they made was during the rain so they put a clear plastic bag around it to keep it protected and put it under the overhang.

I like UPS :D

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I like UPS the best, but I've not really had a bad experience with USPS or FedEx.
I just like what's the best value for getting something to me as fast as possible.

UPS likes to play soccer with my packages, or so I would believe looking at the boxes upon arrival. USPS is faster than you would think but their tracking system is not accurate within 24 hours. I buy tech products as part of my job and I insist on Fed-Ex.

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A PARCEL ARRIVED VIA UPS THIS MORNING ** WITHOUT DAMAGE!** That's the first time that has happened in more than a year. I feel like celebrating. :woot:

Have not had any bad experiences with UPS...
or FEDEX
or USPS

The DHL GUYS SUCKKKKKKKKKAAAAAA

I have to give you my detailed review of DHL Ground as I use them quite frequently and know a few details about them that the average Joe may not know.

First of all, I notice that a lot of SDers shop at OfficeMax so talking about them is not too off-topic. If you go to the OfficeMax shipping counters, you can ship packages via DHL using Ground, Two-Day and Next Day services. What's great is that in almost every weekly ad, you can find a 50% coupon for DHL at OfficeMax, which brings the cost down below even USPS. In addition, if you use an OfficeMax Perks rewards card, you get the 100% cost of the shipment added to your MaxPerk account plus a bonus 100%. This means that if DHL charges you typically $10 to ship a package, you pay $5 but your MaxPerks card gets credited $20. Really nice there.

Something that a lot of people don't know is that even though DHL offers "Ground" service, it is not the same type of ground service provided by the competitors. What DHL means by "Ground" is that your package is flown to the middle of the country (lower 48 states), which ends up being their home office in Ohio. From Ohio, the package is then flown to the nearest regional delivery center to the destination. Therefore, if your package is to be delivered to Ohio or anywhere nearby, packages can arrive within a day or two (I don't know what happens when you ship from Hawaii or Alaska). If the package goes to either coast, "ground" shipping is usually around 3-5 days. To me, that's really nice considering I live in one corner of one coast and can get a package to the other coast that fast (and cheap).

The downside to DHL is their customer service. If you call their toll-free line, you'll probably talk with a friendly CSR, but they won't offer you much help. I once shipped two packages, package A and package B, to two different locations, location 1 and location 2, through the OfficeMax counter. I printed my own labels on both packages so that there would not be any confusion when the OfficeMax clerk would paste the DHL labels on the packages. Well, he did get confused and pasted the label for package A on package B and vice versa. When the person in location 1 received the wrong package, package B, he yelled at me for it and even confirmed the conflicting labels. At this point, location 2 didn't get package A yet so I called DHL to intercept that package and ship it to location 1. I also asked DHL that while at location 1, to pick up package B and ship it to location 2. Well, DHL did this but... package A was delivered to location 1 and later that afternoon another DHL driver stopped by location 1 to pick up package B... instead he saw package A on the porch and took that instead of package B.

Anyhow, long story short, location 2 got both package A and B... and location 1 got nothing. The moral of this story is that DHL is not trustworthy to correct their own mistakes.

If you can trust them not to make a mistake, which they seldomly don't... it's worth a shot. Especially if you can get a 50% discount at OfficeMax and enjoy the MaxPerks program.

Now, I picked out my favorite OfficeMax clerk and have told his boss that I will not allow any other clerk to touch my packages but him... and have had no problems since. The actual time it takes to ship a package is mysterious but I try not to ship time-sensitive material too much.

Hope you enjoyed reading my review and maybe you've been well enlightened by it. :thumbup:

UPS has never delivered to my door. They always deliver it to the office and fail to contact me informing me they have done so. If they deliver a package to my aprt. complex's office at lets say 4 PM that only gives me one hour (usually less b.c she leaves early) to go and get it before she goes home. And if thats on a friday i have to wait until monday to pick it up. Fed ex will deliver it to my door and if i am not home they will take the package back with them and try again the next bussiness day. This at least allows me the option of going and picking it up on the weekend plus refusing delivery on damaged goods or on an item i dont want.

I also had good experience shipping an item via FedEx. I had to ship a defective hard drive from NJ to CA. Since it had a retail value of < $100, I didn't buy additional insurance; just accepted the standard coverage. Anyway, I went for the cheapest (ground) shipping, which wound up taking 4 business days. And the best part: shipping the HDD cost me < $5. :woot:

GO FEDEX!!!! got my mp3 player more than a week before when walmart said would be the first day id get it and 2 b4 the latest day!!! it took like 3 days with ground ship.
mym mom does sumthin which uses DHL to ship and she sai dit sux orders r late and stuff... i smell going out of business

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Xnarg, how much were you charged to ship the 30-lb. parcel? Good luck and hopefully they didn't mix one your package w/ someone else's.

Umm her one!

http://www.batldr.com/ups%20chick.jpg

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FedEx-pretty quick even for the ground. My stuff usually arrives a day before it's scheduled for delivery.

UPS-sucks ass. I also live in an apartment. My UPS guy comes up the stairs lightly taps on the door as he sticks the missed delivery notice on the door and runs away. Focker. I've caught him doing this. There have been times where I don't even get a missed delivery notice and check on the item at UPS's tracking site and see that it was delivered!!! Not to me but the office and I WAS home the entire friggin day waiting on them. :censored:

DHL- fast and a great delivery guy. I let'm know I work nights and when he delivers to me (usually around 8am) to knock hard and give me a minute to respond. He remembers that everytime he delivers to me. Thumbs up to DHL.

USPS-okay and pretty quick. Just pray you never have to file a damaged/missing item claim with them. The paperwork involved, the time it takes......ugh.

Never delt with Emery.

30 lbs. 1,700 miles, ground, cost $17.05.

The clerk at the DHL office REFUSED to sell me additional valuation coverage! She was positive that DHL didn't offer it on ground shipments, even though I told her the website said they do and their online rating program calculates the cost. "I don't got nothing to do with no website, but we don't sell no valuation coverage on no ground shipments," and she stuck by that.

The amazing thing is that the package arrived in two days, so they must have shipped it air and not held it back because of the ground rating. Paying for air would have cost another $40 or so.

Fortunately, there was no additional problem caused by them recording the weight incorrectly (1 lb instead of 30 lbs.) in their online system.

You can estimate the cost for a shipment on the DHL website.

Glad to hear it worked out well, you aspiring doofus. :p ;)

And $17 seems pretty reasonable to ship a 30-lb. package more than halfway across the country. :woot:

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FedEx-pretty quick even for the ground. My stuff usually arrives a day before it's scheduled for delivery.

UPS-sucks ass. I also live in an apartment. My UPS guy comes up the stairs lightly taps on the door as he sticks the missed delivery notice on the door and runs away. Focker. I've caught him doing this. There have been times where I don't even get a missed delivery notice and check on the item at UPS's tracking site and see that it was delivered!!! Not to me but the office and I WAS home the entire friggin day waiting on them. :censored:

DHL- fast and a great delivery guy. I let'm know I work nights and when he delivers to me (usually around 8am) to knock hard and give me a minute to respond. He remembers that everytime he delivers to me. Thumbs up to DHL.

USPS-okay and pretty quick. Just pray you never have to file a damaged/missing item claim with them. The paperwork involved, the time it takes......ugh.

Never delt with Emery.
most of the stuff i buy ships ups, so i have the most experience with them. after awhile ups lady has gotten to know me, i've gotten to know her and barring some unforseen thing i get the stuff the day its supposed to come. we have a gate at the apartment, the call box doesn't have anyone's number their, so i need to prop it open for her. problem is sometimes someone unprops it open. but that's rare.

fed ex only had one shipment recently, guy came at like 7 or 8 at night no real problems.

usps- they get the job done, they have a key to the gate so no real problems.

USPS cause my mom works for them.

Therefore, if your package is to be delivered to Ohio or anywhere nearby, packages can arrive within a day or two
yeah well im near chicago and they are late here but Fedex in in Tennesee so that was real quick

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I had something shipped via FedEx and had no problems. :)

However, they were surprisingly slow (1 day lag) to update my package's tracking status. :confused:

My business uses USPS 99.9% of the time and I've never had a problem using them.
A few years ago I used UPS service at a Mail Boxes Etc. and the package was lost.
It took about a month for UPS to issue me a check to cover my loss.
Over the years I've received packages via every conceivable carrier except The Pony
Express and have never had a problem with delivery.

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I ship stuff pretty often, and I use FedEx Ground or FedEx Home most of the time as I find it to be cheaper and better handled by FedEx than by UPS or USPS. Only stuff a few pounds and under is shipped cheaper by USPS, and I only recently started using them a little more since they now have cheap/free delivery confirmation and carrier home pickup. However, FedEx definitely gets my "favorite" vote, and anything fragile or sensitive will always get shipped by them.

It's no wonder UPS was the official USA Soccer Team sponsor back during the Olympics -- xero is right about using parcels for practice. My UPS stuff always looks like it's been through hell and back. I just got a shipment of Dell computers and the UPS Guy *dropped* them on the floor right in front of me! I was complaining about this to a friend and he said, "Yeah, and you don't even want to know what they did to it when you weren't looking!". One of my Dell computer boxes arrived nearly split in half! I have no idea how that happened... And I once received UPS packages that *reeked* of cigarette smoke. (The packages came from two different destinations, so I know it was the carrier's fault.) One of those boxes happened to have an Italian wool dry-clean-only coat in it. :( Luckily, Amazon packed it really well as usual, and the plastic overwrap helped keep the smoke from stinking it up. Another time I got some curtains mailed via UPS in a plastic mailing envelope, and it looked like a pitbull had gotten a hold of the thing. Once again I marveled at what was done to that package. I have never ever seen my FedEx packages look like that.

As far as delivery practices, I think it reallly depends on the driver. I've had some UPS drivers who are good about giving me more than a minute to get to the door before driving away, while others will put a delivery attempt sticker on the door without even ringing the bell.

The one complaint I have about FedEx home, though, is that, at least with my driver, my parcels are often simply left on my doorstep. I hate this because I have no overhang whatsoever over my door. Although the USPS does this too. UPS is very good about bringing my items to the office.

I have not really had any experience with DHL, but I have a friend who ships stuff all the time for his business and finds them to be the best next-day same-city shippers.

Ive had bad experience with UPS. All the packages I get from them are late or damaged. When something comes UPS the driver wont leave the package without a signature. Since I work during the day I have to go out of my way to pick up my packages. I try to use fedex or usps. I havent had anything bad happen with either of them

One of my co-workers used to work for UPS when he was in college. He said back then, his UPS co-workers used to beat the hell out of the packages they had to deliver. He said he would use UPS as a last resort. :eek:

Good job on the bump, Xnarg! :wave:

This is a very good thread idea.
We need to encourage more e-tailers to use FedEx.
I can't believe Newegg/Chiefvalue switched from FedEx to UPS!

Pony Express maybe?

haha

what the hell is emery? never heard of it.

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This is a very good thread idea.
We need to encourage more e-tailers to use FedEx.
I can't believe Newegg/Chiefvalue switched from FedEx to UPS!
Yeah, that sucks that NE/CV changed from FE to UPS. :mad:

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Holy old bump! Since I moved to TX last year, I was having much better luck w/ UPS than I did in NJ. Until a month ago. They tried to deliver 2 packages (2 speakers) on a Thurs., when I was at work. I wasn't home and they left a note. That's pretty standard procedure, right? I knew I'd be home all day on Fri., so I figured I'd get my speakers then.

Fri. comes and goes. I waited until 9 p.m. before I had to go out. UPS was a complete no-show! I was hoping on setting my speakers up that weekend, but that turned out to be a waste. I signed the sticker and figured UPS would deliver the 2 packages on Mon. I tracked the packages on-line and by afternoon, decided to call UPS to at least ask why the no-show on Fri. They then told me a package was delivered. I told them there should be 2 packages. They said they'll search for the other package and call me. A couple hours later, they called me and told me the other package was delivered.

I got home that night and both packages (speakers) were on my doorstep, albeit the boxes were a bit beat up. I unpacked the boxes and luckily the speakers were undamaged. To this day I still don't know why UPS didn't make the delivery on that Fri. (which ironically was the 13th). And if I never called them, I would've had just 1 speaker and who knows when the other speaker would've shown up. So UPS is back on my $hitlist again. :shake:

DHL sucks