Why on earth would I want to shop somewhere that I can guarantee will ship with FedEx? I’ll actively avoid places that only offer FedEx shipping as it is.
I’ve had issues with FedEx, Amazon, DHL, USPS, UPS, Ontrac. I personally can’t just avoid them all unless I just want to avoid any kind of shipment. I’ve actually had the least issues with FedEx & DHL. It’s all on a person-by-person basis.
USPS is one of the most annoying ones. In many places I’ve lived, I somehow keep getting couriers that marks a package delivered but it isn’t there. And when I call USPS, they said I have to wait a couple days to report it missing. I know that doesn’t happen to everyone; I am just unlucky.
What’s the ecommerce equivalent of dismissively throwing fragile packages over fences. Because I’m wondering what to expect if I every order something via FedEx’s ecommerce system.
As if Amazon drivers are any better
Got a package delivered by Amazon the other day. When I got home it was on the porch. When I checked the delivery notification the photo was of my neighbors porch. Guess they redilvered it, thanks neighbor.
It’s very area-dependent. In my area, all delivery people are fine, but FedEx consistently can’t get their delivery estimates correct and my packages overall tend to be in worse condition from them.
I guess I’ve been lucky. All the ones I’ve had deliver stuff to me have been very considerate.
Of course, now I’ve just jinxed myself.
Sending you wrong things that are cheaper than what you ordered?
Since Amazon has moved into shipping, FedEx wants to move into shopping.
I’ll believe it when FedEx isn’t a dumpster fire of a delivery service. Every time there’s been some bizarre issue getting my delivery, it’s been FedEx. One time, we ordered some furniture. One box on one truck came, we signed, opened it, and found half the components missing with instructions talking about a second box. We call FedEx, and “nope, says here just the one box, and we delivered it, idk, contact the seller”. While we’re trying to reach out to the seller, a second FedEx truck shows up thirty minutes after the first and delivers the second box. Like, wtf? Also, we had a fruit tree we order just fucking get stuck for a whole ass month in one of their distribution centers. It’d go out for shipment each day, and each day be returned. Finally, after a month, they just said “it’s not coming lol”.
I’m willing to bet the vendor sent those two boxes as two separate “1 of 1” shipments. No idea what the deal with the tree would be.
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A friend of mine used to work at fedex and based on the uhhh lets call it work flow, I’d be shocked to see this work out for them. Maybe im too skeptical and they changed a loooot. Doubt it though.
Why does everyone and their mother want to emulate Amazon?
Because money
Who doesnt want to be a strong powerful woman warrior ? Sure, Lucy Lawless is responsible somehow.
Are we criticizing an attempt at having some sort of competition?
The problem is they are all poor emulations. Amazon already has problems and these new “marketplace” don’t address any of them. I haven’t seen one be better than Amazon in any way. At least Wish, Temu, and AliExpress have a wide variety of stuff at cheaper prices. Even if everything else about them is crap.
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It’s going to suck magnum dong
FedEx bought Shop Runner some time ago. This is not much more than a rebranding.
If the quality of their deliveries, especially Fedex Ground, remain the same, they will never be able to compete.
That would require not stressing their drivers to the absolute limit, which is terrible for their bottom line.
fedex ground is still like the old rps, a poorly-managed collection of contractors and sub-contractors. only the air freight (‘express’) is really ‘fedex’.
They still have a responsibility to ensure their drivers aren’t overworked, even if they try and pass the buck to contractor companies.
they want the same access to enshittification funds as their anti-Union cohort Bezos has created.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The platform will integrate with ShopRunner, an online e-commerce store the company bought in 2020.
The company writes that sellers using fdx can ShopRunner platform can use it to “see shipments in near real time,” choose supply chain resources based on carbon impact, and to handle returns.
FedEx says when fdx launches in the fall, it will give sellers “more efficient, cost-effective deliveries” using its data.
The move appears aimed at competing with Amazon, a company FedEx has seen as a threat to its business for years.
That’s just a few years after the online retail giant built up a logistics operation that largely uses tightly controlled third-party contractors that Amazon insists aren’t its employees.
At the same time, Amazon was continuing to build up its own logistics operation that uses a fleet of mostly tightly controlled third-party contractors that it insists aren’t employees.
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