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Federal "Express"?
Author: headscratch
Date: 10-09-2021 - 08:27

Shipping something FedEx Ground from DC area to Sacramento area. "Normal" transit time is about a week. So ... shipped Monday and made normal progress to Chicago, about 2 days. Then, after about 1/2 day, it turned up in Cicero IL (an inner suburb of Chicago with a big intermodal yard, according to Google). The last few checkins show it clearly on a slow train to Seattle; in Whitefish MT this morning, after 3 more days (3 days from Chicago usually has it at some sorting center in California). At that rate, it might get to Seattle on Monday or Tuesday. Then presumably 2-3 more days on a truck down the coast after sitting around for a while? "Express?" This one will be lucky to make it in 2 weeks. I think that kind of shipping was faster when we had steam locomotives in the 1860s.

Not the first time a FedEx shipment has done funny things in Chicago, but usually it just gets lost for a few days. This one feels more like somebody saw a city starting with "S" and threw it in the Seattle bin. Beware FedEx. Even Amazon is usually better.

What will the Final Merger of the package companies be? FedUPzone?

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Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  Federal "Express"? headscratch 10-09-2021 - 08:27
  Re: Federal "Express"? Burn baby burn 10-09-2021 - 10:18
  Re: Federal "Express"? tundraboomer 10-09-2021 - 16:21
  "FUD" you say, Tundra? ? ? ? 10-09-2021 - 17:22
  Re: "FUD" you say, Tundra? tundraboomer 10-10-2021 - 22:41
  Re: Federal "Express"? Guest 10-09-2021 - 15:41
  Re: Federal "Express"? Worldshipper ghost 10-09-2021 - 17:44
  Re: Federal "Express"? Nipsey 10-10-2021 - 05:36
  Re: Federal "Express"? FUD 10-10-2021 - 10:55
  Re: Federal "Express"? Rodney Dangerfield 10-11-2021 - 19:28


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