anyone has to ship with Fedex and UPS on a daily basis at work?

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal

Bad idea. You increase the chance of UPS or FDX taking the FX Ground packages..

the main cause of the problem is because Fedex Ground and Express share a VERY similar shipping label, whereas UPS's label is relatively unique. I had never heard of "the other guy picking up the other shipment" (at least I wasn't told of)

 

[theknight571]

How about building a shelving unit.

Shelf A : Fed Ex

Shelf B : Fed Ex Groung

Shelf C : UPS

ETC.

Where I used to work, space wasn't an issue, so we were able to have large bins, one for each carrier... UPS, FedEx, FedExGrounf, DHL, Airborne, etc...

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: andylawcc

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal

Bad idea. You increase the chance of UPS or FDX taking the FX Ground packages..

the main cause of the problem is because Fedex Ground and Express share a VERY similar shipping label, whereas UPS's label is relatively unique. I had never heard of "the other guy picking up the other shipment" (at least I wasn't told of)

Yeah, it's just a letter in a 1" box that seperates Fedex methods.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: altonb1

Originally posted by: alkemyst
I'd talk to the drivers.

Didn't he say he tried that?

I would just have different locations fior each--whether it is a shelf, pallet, or whatever.

Thought he only talked to one of them. I'd sort it out with all of them.

We never had a problem and have DHL, UPS, FedEx all coming to the same area for parcels/docs.

We did drop fed-ex and UPS as preferred carriers since DHL gave us an excellent rate package (shipped 103lbs today from West Palm Beach, FL to Mesa, AZ for 3pm delivery tomorrow for $75).

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: altonb1

Originally posted by: alkemyst
I'd talk to the drivers.

Didn't he say he tried that?

I would just have different locations fior each--whether it is a shelf, pallet, or whatever.

Thought he only talked to one of them. I'd sort it out with all of them.

We never had a problem and have DHL, UPS, FedEx all coming to the same area for parcels/docs.

We did drop fed-ex and UPS as preferred carriers since DHL gave us an excellent rate package (shipped 103lbs today from West Palm Beach, FL to Mesa, AZ for 3pm delivery tomorrow for $75).

DHL is pretty good too. One thing I don't like about them in our area is their facility is 20 minutes south on the freeway so they always pickup earlier than UPS or FDX. UPS (Has a facility minutes away) and FDX flies everything from the airport.

$75.00 for ON delivery is pretty damn good for 103#.

 

[alkemyst]

what's really insane about DHL for us is usually next day 3pm is the cheapest out of all methods even ground.

They have yet to beat up any of our boxes yet. We gave up on UPS from WPB to anywhere with valuable items as every freaking time even when double boxed they destroyed our shipment. We were told our packing methods were inadequate and that future claims may be denied. There were certain destinations that I could guarantee the package would be damaged (most of ours were larger 40lb+ shipments that I think pissed off their staff or something on certain routes).

Our next shipment went out from a UPS recommended packaging facility, a shipment of LCDS. 6 were destroyed...3 looked fine but did not power on. 1 caught fire on start up. 2 other ones looked as if they got removed from the box, beaten with a hammer and put back inside. It was a 4 figure claim that was paid. The major problem is I shipped 12 for a training class that next day I was flying out to do. We had to have people more than double up on machines.

We stopped using UPS after that for anything but certain document shipments (there is supposedly a negotiated rate we get...it's a different business units deal though).

Fedex was good for not damaging items, but DHL just blew their rates out of the water.