No FedEx Ground

So after a long time of wanting a new GPS, I got my new job and I got all set up, ready to go! This is going to be cool. I ordered my new GPS from GPS City. I thought I was the bomb-digity on this one!

Well, maybe I was, maybe I wasn’t. FedEx Ground has taken my package hostage. Here are a few, little known, facts about FedEx Ground:

• The drivers are all “independent contractors”.
• Live tracking is NOT possible, they update once a day.
• FedEx can not contact drivers.
• They *HAVE* to make 3 delivery attempts before they will hold your package at any given center
• They don’t have to make those delivery attempts in consecutive days. Just when they think its ok.
• FedEx phone reps will tell you different things every time you call
• If it requires a signature, you are pretty much screwed if you have a job. Take a day off, sit home and wait.
• Everything I have said here is based on what FedEx employees have told me. If I am wrong, ask them why!

There are probably some other fun items that I have forgotten, but that sums it up. I could have spent $10 for 2 day, but I thought “Oh, I can just pick it up!”. You can’t.

Someday I might get my GPS, but I don’t know any more!