FedEx lost my rebuilt '39 trans

[aussie merc]

dosent matter who it was loosing a customers parcel is not acceptable! MAKE NOISE AND LOTS OF IT always find out who you talk to and who is their supervisor if they cant find it go higher and get louder freight just doesn't disappear

[cas3]

just for fun, I don't know the shipper, but a friend recently told me he sold a ww2 dodge pickup box to a buyer in Florida, shipped from Minnesota, the buyer received an old corvette frame, the dodge box was never found

[WRA]

I use Apple Air tags in every shipment of significance. I have even mailed them to the seller to place in the shipment. I’ve done this will all 3 carriers.

What is amazing is the tracking. The Air Tags are accurate within 200 feet or so. The Carrier tracking has been off by hundreds of miles, even showing wrong state and location. I’ve watched packages goes back & forth across the country, stall for days at airports etc.

But in the end I have complete peace of mind knowing where the package is. Doesn’t help or prevent damage or rough handling. But never completely lost something using this method.

[Tim Ayers]

Sorry to hear about the trans. Hopefully a heavy, bulky item like that didn't get "lost" in their system. I believe Georgia is the hub for FedEx and all packaged filter through at some point.


I had something go missing with FedEx once. It was a Model A hood, so the box was rather large and bulky. Their tracking showed it arrived to the depot in NJ, but was no where to be found. It obviously walked out the back door. I did insure it and was paid relatively quickly without too much drama. I understand this could be an outlier. I do prefer USPS for heavy small things and UPS for bulky items.

[BlueSunoco]

Makes you want to just DRIVE the item to where it is going, if you want undamaged non-lost parts Especially for irreplaceable antique car parts.

[sidevalve8ba]

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Makes going to Swap Meets even more appealing. You actually get to see the part in person, haggle over the price one on one and then safely escort it home. A win, win, win situation if I ever saw one!

[BlueSunoco]

Originally Posted by sidevalve8ba

Makes going to Swap Meets even more appealing. You actually get to see the part in person, haggle over the price one on one and then safely escort it home. A win, win, win situation if I ever saw one!

I fully agree----


And good '39 Trannies seem to be not all that easy to come by.

[John R]

Be careful shipping anything somewhat heavy, especially in those inexpensive USPS Flat Rate Boxes. They are rather flimsy. I use box-within-a-box packaging plus the ship to/from info on the item itself. I adopted this policy after receiving a nice USPS Large Flat Rate Box which formerly held a pair of nice 32 front bumper brackets. The delivered box was in perfect condition except for hole just large enough for the brackets to exit.


By comparison, FedEx flat rate boxes are very robust and unlikely to fail the gorilla test. Whether they arrive at the destination is another matter. I just shipped 25 lbs in a FedEx Very Large Flat Rate Box. Supposed to arrive Monday. We'll see.

[trulyvintage]

If you choose commercial drop shipping
to send parts - have the sender pay for
the shipping and insure it at 200%
replacement value - taking pictures
while packing - package according to
shipper requirements - take pictures
of parts being dropped off.

Jim

[1948F-1Pickup]

I used to ship auto parts for a living, but it’s been a few years. Very few issues with FedEx. Much more volume (and issues) with UPS. You remember the stuff that was ridiculous, like a personal UPS shipment of a pricey English bicycle. This was before the days of Apple Air Tags. I seriously doubt that missing shipment would have ever been found without the relationship I had with counter staff at the local UPS depot/hub. There was an absolute attempt at subterfuge because the shipping box and label and tracking number were not the ones the shipment started out with…….

[Tim Ayers]

Originally Posted by John R

Be careful shipping anything somewhat heavy, especially in those inexpensive USPS Flat Rate Boxes. They are rather flimsy. I use box-within-a-box packaging plus the ship to/from info on the item itself. I adopted this policy after receiving a nice USPS Large Flat Rate Box which formerly held a pair of nice 32 front bumper brackets. The delivered box was in perfect condition except for hole just large enough for the brackets to exit.


By comparison, FedEx flat rate boxes are very robust and unlikely to fail the gorilla test. Whether they arrive at the destination is another matter. I just shipped 25 lbs in a FedEx Very Large Flat Rate Box. Supposed to arrive Monday. We'll see.

I didn't realize FedEx offered flat rate and I have an account with them. I'll need to look into this.

[TomC750]

Originally Posted by 1948F-1Pickup

I used to ship auto parts for a living, but it’s been a few years. Very few issues with FedEx. Much more volume (and issues) with UPS. You remember the stuff that was ridiculous, like a personal UPS shipment of a pricey English bicycle. This was before the days of Apple Air Tags. I seriously doubt that missing shipment would have ever been found without the relationship I had with counter staff at the local UPS depot/hub. There was an absolute attempt at subterfuge because the shipping box and label and tracking number were not the ones the shipment started out with…….

Opposite experience here. Zero problems with UPS, FedEx- delivered to wrong address, packages hung on mailbox because they didn't want to bother driving up a long driveway, beat up and missing shipments etc. Don't get me started on USPS, lost mail, mail delivered to wrong address, recent shipment took 6 weeks to go 300 miles , Ohio to Tenn via Fla...

[ThirstyThirty]

K32: After losing countless shipments with all 3 and filing numerous claims I have come to the decision that trying to recoup your loss is a waste of time.

Originally Posted by Kube

You are 100% correct.

I am glad I am no longer a daily account UPS Shipper! most of my shipments arrived at destinations ok, but I also have some stories. the ones you don't forget! And they always were expensive items and fully insured.

but when lost or broken UPS would NEVER ever, easily pay the claim! always a run around. always, we need more this... or such n such. always! only because I got a customer deep within UPS at Dallas complex, was I able to get the insurance paid. try and try: NEVER! one call to him, check rec'd within 10 days! in full amount of claim.

and I always ran a bill's audit on my weekly UPS charges. I always got refund credits to my account due to their billing errors!!

UPS always over charged me for shipping!! on their weights, destination zones, etc per their scheds!

[rockfla]

Timely post
Here is a 35 Engine I just completed going to Norway.......As Lawrie has mentioned.....Two apple air tags are installed in this crate. One I have installed hidden on the motor and the other is installed in one of the parts boxes in case there is a theft and the two get separated.
One of my tricks for shipping local ie here in the USA IS


I send shipping labels to whomever I buy parts from and I use my home address for both the shipping and receiving address.....This gives me more of a chance of the box getting shipped to me IF one of the address on the label gets damaged or obscured. It will always show MY address.


Apple Air Tags.....better than NOT using them


As for heavy shipments (like this motor). In my business, I have three motor freight carriers I use.....Old Dominion, Estes and AAA Cooper. ALL have limits on "insurance" coverage for high value Items like this motor. NONE of them would cover the value......SO the freight handler for the shipment going to Norway has a "specialty high value" shipper that he uses. That is the only way the "CYA" on any heavy shipment of any real value....EVEN the motor freight "insurance is almost NOT worth it, as stated by other here and UPS & Fed Ex.


Just a little insight into the UPS world as I was a high volume direct sorter for the local hub here in Jacksonville for 3 years.....On average (28ish years ago) we would handle approx 300,000 packages per 4 hour sort. My "preferred Destination" I handled Miami metro, ALL of North Carolina, 1/2 of Texas and Davenport Iowa was my low flow trailer. My PD was the longest run out in the hub....From unload to load was almost 15 minutes of conveyor belts & shoots with rollers. The main conveyors ran at about 8 miles an hour until it got to the HVD & LVD sorters like me, then those belts slowed down to about 5 mph....so at that point boxes start to get bunched, pushed and on very high volume days, smuushed together. During "peak season", which was Oct to Jan we would run, on average, 385,000 packages per 4 hour sort SO...It is a tremendous amount, moving on a tremendous maze of conveyors and shoots SO the way things are packaged ARE CRITICAL for success as well as where, how and how many times it is labeled and for UPS....the bigger and clearer you make the destination zip code, the better!!!!!

[sidevalve8ba]

I am not familiar with Apple air tags. I have to assume that they only work if you are using a smartphone?

[rockfla]

Originally Posted by sidevalve8ba

I am not familiar with Apple air tags. I have to assume that they only work if you are using a smartphone?

Smart phone is the quickest and easiest way BUT you can also log on with your computer and use the "findmyairtag.com" app.


Here is the apple link: https://www.apple.com/airtag/

[rockfla]

Lol.....Hey Kube, 1 of the 3 arrived today.....The other two.....who knows? Lol

[hudson1948]

Fed ex lost a Packard crankshaft on me. Must have fell on someone’s toe. What a nightmare , never got it back

[rockfla]

Last whack at the dead horse, I had a customer have a 48" 316L SS weld-on pipe flange "hot tailgate rush" shipped on R&L from Mass to Florida and it left Atalanta hub for Florida never to be seen again!!!

[KenBolton]

I have bad experiences with both USPS and UPS. UPS has a stock set of reasons on their computers when an item is “lost” to choose from. One of them is “Damaged packaging, lost item. My rim was not packaged! It took days to get this through their heads and find a supervisor who would but boots and eyes in the warehouse of “lost” items. Once they did whalah! They found my rim.