Sometimes FedEx can’t meet their guaranteed delivery time; sometimes they don’t even try. Too often, parcel carriers don’t take deadlines seriously – until someone forces them to.
Of all the excuses FedEx can give for denying a shipping refund, “We didn’t have time to deliver it” must be the worst. Frustrated customers may be told the driver couldn’t fit their package into that day’s schedule, or that they promise to deliver it by the next business day. Great – if it isn’t Friday.
Next day or next minute doesn’t matter. FedEx has let you down in both cases. Their entire business model relies on getting packages delivered on time. Mastering time is effectively their whole offer to businesses. How many companies would be let off the hook if they told customers they didn’t have the most important commodity they were trading in?
We can’t think of any, and FedEx should be no exception.
Attempted delivery or no attempt made at all?
Community forums like the FedEx Reddit and the Consumer Affairs program have a long list of unhappy FedEx customers. Their stories relate how couriers didn’t even try to deliver their package and got around this in several shameless ways.
Some cases saw absolutely no attempt made. Some were half-hearted efforts. Others were shocking examples of FedEx couriers trying to bend the truth to suit a very strange desire not to deliver packages. It seems like they’re in the wrong line of work.
Customers then face even more FedEx hurdles
Many of these mistreated customers contact FedEx to receive either no reply, or a promise of action that comes to nothing. The best-case scenario will see the driver turning around to deliver that day, but more likely it will be next-day delivery. This could mean a weekend’s wait for a customer, which is especially problematic if the item is perishable.
Worse, the recipient will have to make it to the nearest FedEx office to pick it up themselves. It essentially becomes their responsibility to take the time and expense to do FedEx’s job. And there’s a good chance those aggrieved customers will take it out on your business. “I ordered a package from you to arrive by a certain time, and it didn’t!”
They will certainly be angry at FedEx, but all too often the shipper pays the price in more ways than one. FedEx’s sloppy performance can do more than con you out of a shipping refund. It could cost you customers, who might start a chain reaction of bad press with negative online reviews.
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