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I ordered a pair of those speaker dodads that Celt ordered from Sweetwater.I have a tracking # for ground Fed-Ex. So Sweetwater is in Indiana,Fed Ex says delivery by 5PM tommorow. I checked the tracking # and it is now in Memphis,TN.

Now I was really smart in geography in school,and I have a pretty good idea where all the lower 48 states are located. I also have a firm grasp on North,South,East,West.. Mr Truck driver Fed Ex Guy you are supposed to be heading north.

So this means it must go from Elvis' house to Mirabel,Quebec,clear customs and make it to Horton Dr,Stratford,PEI by 5PM Thursday? better not stop to pee buddy!
 
Every time I send something east via FedEx it goes from here all the way to Winnipeg first. That's 400 miles in the opposite direction.
 
At my ex-wife's old company she brought a package to the mailroom with the instructions that it had to be in the CEO's office by the next day. They dutifully sent it FedEx overnight, and it went through the Memphis hub on the way to a successful delivery to the CEO's office. Memphis was far out of the way -- the CEO's office was simply on the next floor up in the very same building where the package started out. The package left the mailroom, went to Memphis, came back to the very same mailroom the next day where it was sorted and hand carried upstairs to the CEO.

Fedex service is hard to beat!
 
When I order from Digikey, they send it UPS express to Canada. If I order by 2pm, I get it next day before noon. It travels from MSP Minneapolis MN to SDF Lousiville KY and then off to YMX Mirabel QC, all the time getting precleared for customs, it really is quite amazing when it works and all for 8 bucks!
 
JonL said:
At my ex-wife's old company she brought a package to the mailroom with the instructions that it had to be in the CEO's office by the next day. They dutifully sent it FedEx overnight, and it went through the Memphis hub on the way to a successful delivery to the CEO's office. Memphis was far out of the way -- the CEO's office was simply on the next floor up in the very same building where the package started out. The package left the mailroom, went to Memphis, came back to the very same mailroom the next day where it was sorted and hand carried upstairs to the CEO.

Fedex service is hard to beat!
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Wow, that's an interesting story...
 
JonL said:
At my ex-wife's old company she brought a package to the mailroom with the instructions that it had to be in the CEO's office by the next day. They dutifully sent it FedEx overnight, and it went through the Memphis hub on the way to a successful delivery to the CEO's office. Memphis was far out of the way -- the CEO's office was simply on the next floor up in the very same building where the package started out. The package left the mailroom, went to Memphis, came back to the very same mailroom the next day where it was sorted and hand carried upstairs to the CEO.

Fedex service is hard to beat!
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Talk about an extravagant bureaucratic WASTE of resources. They should have given it the "special deluxe, accompanied by personal escort white-glove" treatment: carry it in the hand, walk over to the elevator or stairs, go up one floor, and hand it over... It would have taken one low-cost employee a few minutes, and been DONE, without any risk of losing a package. Or entrust it to the usual mailroom delivery, which is probably exactly what they did after the Memphis trip. Instead...

The mind boggles! :screwy: Usually only BIG companies can afford that kind of stupid incompetence. That company deserves to go bankrupt, if that sort of thing happens often.
 
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