I buy a lot stuff for game house. Lots of pins but other vid and toys too. Anyway the fed ex tells me today when dropping off my dead pool Le, he wants my personal info so he can give me better service (time frame) I always grease him 10-20 bucks and he has probably been to my house 20-30 times. Super nice guy but just thought man it is pretty sad I am becoming friends with the delivery guy.
As for dead pool. Played about 5 games. Fun but so far in ain’t no Iron Maiden!
Quoted from Ballsofsteel:did you give him your social security # and your checking account #?
I gave him that info the time before.
Yes he wheels the game where ever I need it and then stays for 10-15 minutes while I unbox and inspect the game. He certainly doesn’t have to do that. Also it is clear if there is any damage he will make sure it gets taken care of on his end.
Quoted from Gryszzz:I honestly didn't even know this was an option.
Me either. First time I've heard of fedex delivering pins. 
Quoted from jorge5240:Played about 5 games. Fun but so far in ain’t no Iron Maiden!
Excellent! Variety in pinball, as in life, is a good thing!
Thanks Fed-Ex guy!
Quoted from ForceFlow:Me either. First time I've heard of fedex delivering pins.
FedEx Freight has been doing LTL for years. I had a Road Show FedEx'd from Munich, Germany to Birmingham, AL in 3 days back around 2002....
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Notice he is wearing brown!! Lol. That’s the other guys!! The purple guys take very good care of the packages!!
I have had lots of games shipped fed ex and never had an issue. Just in the last little bit, Iron Maiden, Dead Pool, pac man battle royale and super Chex bubble hockey. Maybe I am lucky but they have been really good. I am in the middle of no where and some of the other shipping companies come once a week with little or no communication.
Quoted from Rascal_H:Wish I had you on my route. I bust my ass and no one gives me shit. Did get bit by a dog last week though... so there’s that.
Good for you for hooking him up though (even though it’s totally against corporate policy lol)
I hook all delivery guys up. Next time they always show up with a smile! Worth it for a couple bucks.
I would just be happy if Fedex would deliver to the right house in my neighborhood. The regular driver even put a detailed description in the notes for my address, and the fill-in guys still drop it somewhere else.
Quoted from jorge5240:Yes he wheels the game where ever I need it and then stays for 10-15 minutes while I unbox and inspect the game. He certainly doesn’t have to do that. Also it is clear if there is any damage he will make sure it gets taken care of on his end.
I think he just wants to be friends.
Quoted from JodyG:I would just be happy if Fedex would deliver to the right house in my neighborhood. The regular driver even put a detailed description in the notes for my address, and the fill-in guys still drop it somewhere else.
I do door to door delivery. Some houses are just difficult to find. No house numbers, shared laneways, laneways coming out on side streets, houses hiding behind other houses, house numbers divided at cross streets not making sense.
If the regular driver has to make a detailed note on how to find your address, then maybe it’s not totally the drivers fault. I run into a lot of hard to find places.
Quoted from Luckydogg420:I do door to door delivery. Some houses are just difficult to find. No house numbers, shared laneways, laneways coming out on side streets, houses hiding behind other houses, house numbers divided at cross streets not making sense.
If the regular driver has to make a detailed note on how to find your address, then maybe it’s not totally the drivers fault. I run into a lot of hard to find places.
Its not real hard, regular guy just said they have some super lazy fill-in drivers in their terminal right now...its in a row between 196 and 200, with numbers right on the front. No trickery here. Another one is skipping the 10:30 am priority overnight deadline and saying they attempted delivery but nobody was home, alert said they left a door tag, but they didn't. Camera proves they never even came on my street. They fully intended on dropping it at 3pm when it fit the route better. They never even came by the house, because they assumed I wasn't home due to the residential address. But I was there, waiting for it. I've had 22 priority overnight shipments in the last month....so this wasn't a new thing for anyone.
Quoted from JodyG:they have some super lazy fill-in drivers
Ya, that will do it also. Good temp workers are hard to find.
Quoted from AUKraut:FedEx Freight has been doing LTL for years. I had a Road Show FedEx'd from Munich, Germany to Birmingham, AL in 3 days back around 2002....
That's gotta cost a bit!!
What are you tipping the Fed Ex guy for? Pin deliveries or non-pinball deliveries, or both? I'm legitimately asking and not in a "they don't deserve a tip!!!11" way either. I can't even really recall the last time I was home for a Fed Ex/UPS delivery, let alone had a chance to tip them. I think the last one I was home for they just ran up, left the package, rang the bell and the truck was gone by the time I got to the door. Do they prioritize on their route or something or just doing it to be nice? Genuinely curious!
Quoted from grantopia:rang the bell
You're lucky. The delivery guys here don't even do that anymore.
In my mind fed ex freight is different then fed ex. Freight is delivering me a multi thousand dollar item that they have to use a lift gate and wheel into my garage. They are not just throwing some package on the porch and rolling out.
I had one NIB game delivered FedEx. There was a hole in the box. Opened it before I accepted delivery and there was damage to the side of the head from a fork lift. I got it replaced but it was a lot of phone calls, paperwork and hassle. Maybe just bad luck, but will stuck with R and L and STI after that.
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