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  1. Race

    In my previous post I speculated on which of the two packages I have shipped over the last few days would arrive at its destination first, thus winning the race. Would it be the USPS package full of 35mm film that shipped out on Saturday or would it be the FedEx envelope with my passport renewal application that shipped out last night?

    I have the answer.

    The film has arrived at The Darkroom. I can expect my scans to be uploaded to my account in 3-7 business days. In other words, an eternity. Disney and New York on film… coming soon.

    #35mmFilm #35mmFilmPhotography #federalExpress #fedEx #film #filmPhotography #filmScans #photography #race #shipping #thedarkroomlab #usPostalService #usps #whichPackageWillArriveFirst

  2. Tuesday afternoon got less productive for me when I had to get in a 20-mile errand through some of Northern Virginia’s less enjoyable traffic. My reason for this drive to a light-industrial stretch of Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria a few blocks from a trash-to-energy plant? A company that exists largely to deliver packages to people’s homes.

    FedEx handed off this logistical chore to me after a series of missed connections that I should have seen coming, because I’ve seen it before. And I’ve written about it before–or I think I have, except Google and Bing can’t locate the post I remember doing for the Washington Post that included the phrase “FedEx house arrest.”

    Back then and again this week, the problem began with a shipment for which the sender had required a recipient’s signature. In this case, it was a Pixel 6a phone from Google, a free replacement under a warranty-extension program for the Pixel 5a phone that had mysteriously self-bricked earlier this month. I had taken Google up on that offer Tuesday of last week while out of town, thinking that this order wouldn’t get fulfilled until I returned Sunday night.

    But contrary to the e-mail from Google estimating a delivery window from Tuesday through Friday of this week, FedEx first showed up Wednesday of last week. With nobody around, the driver left a door tag asking for a signature; the neighbor who had been stopping by to check on our cat then texted a picture of that note, asking what to do.

    The tag didn’t specify that my neighbor could have signed it, and meanwhile I thought I could solve the problem in FedEx’s delivery manager by waiving the signature requirement there. But that did nothing, resulting in another missed delivery and another door tag on Thursday. My attempt to set a vacation hold instead of just telling my neighbor to sign the door tag was equally unproductive, leading to yet another missed delivery.

    After three “delivery exception” strikes, I was out–except FedEx’s site didn’t say that, instead describing the package as “on the way.” Throughout Monday, it predicted a delivery by 8 p.m. that night. That did not happen. When I got an equally vague delivery forecast Tuesday, I finally picked up the phone to call the company. Only then was I informed that I had to pick up the package at the FedEx shipping center in Alexandria before it closed that evening, lest this package get routed back to Google.

    With my replacement phone finally picked up at the price of a reacquaintance with the traffic many people around here deal with every day, I then went all of 20 hours before another FedEx disconnect.

    Thursday afternoon, the missed delivery was a new laptop for my wife. I knew it was coming at some point that day, but without an equivalent to Amazon’s delivery-map feature–an upgrade you might have thought FedEx would have made during the pandemic–I didn’t know when I should be near the front door.

    And because I have an uncanny knack for being in the basement doing laundry or in the backyard weeding or otherwise not eyeing the front-porch steps when FedEx deliverypeople arrive, I missed that delivery attempt. The door tag is now signed, and I trust that this delivery saga will end Friday. I have less confidence that FedEx will sand down these rough spots in its delivery experience anytime soon.

    https://robpegoraro.com/2024/08/22/fedexs-delivery-of-delivery-data-could-use-some-work/

    #AmazonMapTracking #cx #deliveryException #FederalExpress #FedEx #FedExDeliveryManager #FedExDoorTag #logistics #signatureRequired

  3. N306FE, the one which was hijacked in flight 705, and heroically saved by the crew, became the last DC-10 to retire on 12/31. What a fitting tribute to a great aircraft that has served FedEx so well over the years. Final Flight YYZ-MEM. - old postcard.
    #fedex #aviation #frieghter #avgeek #airplane #planes #FederalExpress #dc10 #postcard

  4. Photo of the Day 2020-03-11.
    N725FD, Airbus A300B4-622R(F), Federal Express, taking off from Runway 05L at Manchester Airport, 18th July 2014.
    #avgeek #planespotting #potd #manchester #man #egcc #l13 #airbus #a300 #federalExpress #fedex #photo

  5. Bonus Photo of the Day 2020-02-23.
    N311FE, Douglas DC10-30(F), Federal Express, landing at London Heathrow, some time in the 1990s.
    #avgeek #planespotting #potd #london #heathrow #lhr #egll #queensBuilding #glasshouse #douglas #dc10 #federalExpress #fedex

  6. Bonus Photo of the Day 2019-10-26.
    N117FE, Boeing 727-25C, Federal Express, at Frankfurt Airport, 16th October 1993.
    #avgeek #planespotting #potd #frankfurt #fra #eddf #boeing #b737 #federalExpress

  7. On This Day 10th October 1996.
    N114FE, Boeing 727-24C, Federal Express, at EuroAirport Basle-Mulhouse, 10th October 1996.
    #avgeek #planespotting #otd #europort #basle #mulhouse #bsl #lsnm #boeing #b727 #federalExpress