It was very difficult for me to select a star rating for this review, as A-OK doesn't really reflect how I feel about the experience. Some aspects went well, while others would be downplayed by giving a three star rating.
Starting off, I was somewhat annoyed to see that this business is still requiring masks, when the CDC has clearly given the okay to stop requiring that. It is difficult to "get back to normal", when businesses like this hold on to fear like a delicate child afraid to go out and play on the playground after scraping their knee. For this alone, if I planned to ever ship with FedEx again, I would not return until this location updates their policy and I am deducting stars for this, but for the people reading this who are germaphobes or still feel freaked out, this may be a plus for you.
Moving beyond that, the store was clean and well maintained inside. Ricardo greeted me and was very pleasant and professional. I was sending a hard drive that would be returned back to me in the same box, and I wanted to also pay for the shipping label coming back. I needed to make a shipping account with FedEx, and so I did this. The process was relatively easy.
I was asked if I wanted to add a signature and I decided to do so when it came back to me. If I had known that FEDEX NORTH SALT LAKE was as poorly managed as it is, and that the facility tries to make receiving packages that need a signature very difficult so that people will get frustrated and try to pick the packages up themselves, I would not have selected this option. I am obviously not deducting stars for this because that is a different facility, but I highly suggest they inform customers who may be paying to receive shipments to their homes that they do not use signature verification.
I am deducting a stars for not putting down the value of the package on the return shipment label. The declared value for the hard drive returning is not 0. I only realized this after FEDEX NORTH continuously told me my package was coming, and it still has not shown up. This wastes my time and money, as well as not receiving my package. I have already been informed that I will only receive 1/4 of what the item is worth because the declared value was put in as "0". I considered moving the star level to one, but I was given good service otherwise and I don't want to discount that. I do aim to be fair when writing my reviews.
Another thing to mention is that they have a fedex web address that ends in "welisten" to give feedback. This page does not exist. It is becoming very clear that FedEx does not actually want customer feedback as I navigate through the company's bloated and dysfunctional customer service system.
To bring this review to a close: the in-person experience was good and if you like using FedEx, I would say that this place is as good as any to do so with, though I recommend you double check everything to be sure there is no missing information.
If you are ambivalent about who you ship with, I highly suggest you do not ever ship with FedEx, and that if you are arranging for a shipment to go anywhere in the SLC area, do not request a signature. It's important to know that the FedEx system in the SLC area, especially the NORTH facility, is very poorly run. I have talked with many different people in the last week, and FedEx Corporate knows there is a problem, but isn't interested in taking action to fix the issues.
While some of that does not have to do with this FedEx shipping location, the fact that the shipment's declared value was inputted as 0 does connect in with that information and may likely impact an already bad situation.
EDIT: After looking around online, it seems that employees putting "0" in the declared value spot is pretty rampant. This leads me to believe that either FedEx specifically tells the employees to do this, or FedEx does not train their employees to double check this. Either way, it seems that FedEx is aware of the inadequacies in their company and do not want to pay for that, and thus--either overtly or covertly--try to make sure the declared value section has a "0" in it. I strongly suggest not using FedEx, but if you do, again, my experience with this location had many positive aspects to it. read more