This has got to be the WORST FedEx shipping center in the world. I've been at the delivery mercy of the incredibly unprofessional people who are employed here for the past six years because of my geographical location. Whenever I get anything shipped I try to avoid FedEx like the plague. But in the occasions in which my shipper doesn't give me a choice, I have to brace myself for the following.
For years I would stay home waiting for packages that never arrived, only to find a door tag at the building's front door. "But how?!" I would cry. "I've been home all day, waiting patiently and have not heard a single buzz, doorbell ring or knock at my door!!!" And so the delivery dance begins.
The location is difficult to reach by public transportation. The only way to get there would be by car (this is NYC, cars are not really a thing for everyone) or a bus that takes 45 mins to get there. While in line at the center, other customers have the same complaint: drivers are not really announcing themselves at delivery locations and just leaving tags because they can't be bothered to actually do their jobs. The person behind the counter couldn't care less. And here's where it gets interesting.
In my last interaction with this vortex from the seventh circle of delivery hell, the driver didn't buzz, ring, knock OR EVEN LEAVE A DOOR TAG!!!
I only found out my "delivery attempt" failed because the application said so while i was sitting in my living room, waiting for the driver to arrive! I go outside because i see another driver and ask him if he has my package, but he says he doesn't have anything for my address. I tell him about the situation and he responds: "I've been at this job two weeks and already seen some shady shit". When I called the help center, the customer service rep assured me he was going to contact the driver to get them to come back on the same day and said they would do so between 11a and 3p ( I called at 10:39a). He took my number and told me the driver would call me before coming so we would be ready. Needless to say, no call, no delivery attempt. I call again, and the next rep says that the delivery would be attempted again next day. I gotta work, but my wife agrees to stay home and wait for it. But that same night my app says I have to go get the package at this facility. I call again and the third rep says that its too late to contact the facility but that he'll send a note on the system and that we'll get it in the morning. Again, no buzz, ring, knock or even door tag, and my app says that the package is back at the facility. All the while, my wife has been home all day. I call back, get escalated to a "consumer advocate" who says she'll call me back to follow up on my complaint but never does. While at work, we get a FedEx delivery and I chat with the driver, tell him my story. He says: "I know what you're saying. Some of my coworkers are super lazy and I can corroborate your suspicion. People don't knock or ring because they don't wanna bother."
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I call again, get told that the system is down (something that apparently happens to them 74% of the times I have a problem with my delivery) but to rest assured that the next day I would get the delivery. I wake up today, no buzz, no ring, no knock or even a tag on the door. The app says it's still at the facility. I call again and after being put on hold, get told that the system is down and they can't track the package or contact the facility. I hang up, immediately call again, get a different rep and decide to not give them my tracking number. The rep says that they had some trouble with the platform, but after asking some other questions and chatting her up, the system miraculously works and she tracks the package. It's still at the facility. It wasn't put out for delivery. I guess no third attempts for me. She took my number (it's now the fifth time) and says the package will somehow be delivered today and the facility will contact me before they send it out. I'm still here, waiting. Third day of this BS.
These people hold me hostage in my own home, waiting in terror of missing the delivery person for days thinking I might be going crazy because I almost never hear the buzz, ring or knock. But now I know, they don't practice their own terms of service. One pays for door to door service but, because of the most unprofessional work ethic I've ever experienced, most people in my area have to go to BFE to get their stuff in the middle of an industrial area far from working transit services. read more