FedEx Stories

I had a similar experience with FedEx as Allen. I was ordering a new motherboard through mail order. It was shipped via FedEx Super Saver (I think it was) which takes 3 days. This was towards the end of November a few years back. Well, I was eagerly tracking it via the tracking site (a really cool feature). I saw it arrived in Nampa the next day, but then it just sit there. At one point I suggested I would drive down and get it, but then someone pointed out they have no facilities for me to do that. I figured out when the 3 days would be, and that put it on Thanksgiving day, which is a holiday. Turns out they don't deliver on the day after either. Then you put in Saturday and Sunday, so it ended up taking a week to get delivered.

It just struck me as odd that it took one day to travel from New York to Nampa, Idaho, and then took 6 more to get from one side of Nampa to the other.

Although I have a great FedEx story too. Once we were living in Lewiston, Idaho, which is way up north in Idaho. My sister-in-law had purchased us tickets to Phantom of the Opera in Salt Lake City, Utah (Thanks Holly!) We got the tickets way in advance, so we put them in the car glove box so we wouldn't loose them and we would be sure to take them with us when we drove down to SLC. Our plan was to drive to Boise, stay with family overnight, then drive to SLC, see the show, stay with family over night, then drive back to Boise.

Well, our car ended up having trouble, so we got a ride with my Dad who was driving down to Boise that same weekend. We were about half way to Boise when we realized we didn't get the tickets out of the car glove box. This was before cell phones were so popular, so when we reached Boise I called a good friend of mine. I told him where the tickets were, he got them out of the car and overnighted them to my uncle's house in SLC. The tickets beat us there. That was just cool.

What would be really nice is if you could have FedEx text message you every time your package's status changed. So you could track it in real time via your cell phone. I wonder if FedEx has a web service API. . . .