recotte
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One more voice on the "FedEx has really gone downhill" bandwagon. Indeed, up until the last couple of years, I would have sworn that FedEx was superior to UPS. Alas, no more. I regularly divert FedEx wine shipments to my local FedEx store, as delivery to my home--not at all off the beaten path--proved troublesome, with multiple instances of "delivery attempts" reported, even though I was sitting at home, waiting for them, if not right at the door! No knock on the door, just a tag stuck on there, and off they go. Faster to stick on a door tag than wait for someone to come to the door, I suppose. Most recently, I diverted a package to the FedEx store, and their app reported a delivery exception. No explanation, of course, just that the delivery hadn't occurred, and it was pending a revised delivery date. This didn't change for several days, and there was certainly no notification that the shipment had reached the store and was waiting for me. We were having a spell of cool weather, so I wasn't concerned about heat damage, but I was getting worried that the box was straight up lost. I just happened to check the status on my laptop one afternoon, rather than through the app, and, lo and behold, while the status was still showing a delivery exception, when I expanded the status updates... it had been delivered! On the original date! Ugh. My UPS guy is great... we have a wink and a nod arrangement that he'll leave alcohol shipments in a spot that you can't see from the street if I'm not there to sign for it. Once in a blue moon, when there's a substitute driver for the route, I'll miss a shipment, but that's sufficiently infrequent since I work from home that it's not a big deal.
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde
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