Fedex?

What is the latest time fedex will come by a house or address when delivering an animal? just curiuose...

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Originally Posted by djslurp1200

What is the latest time fedex will come by a house or address when delivering an animal? just curiuose...

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The shipper should be sending it priority overnight to arrive by no later than 10:30. If no one is home, the package wont be delivered unless there is a signature on file

say it's overnight. You say no later than 10:30am? How early can they come? Just wondering...

Call Fedex?

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Originally Posted by djslurp1200

say it's overnight. You say no later than 10:30am? How early can they come? Just wondering...

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First overnight is by 8:30AM in most areas, Priority is by 10:30AM in most areas and Standard is by 3PM to most areas. Rural areas could be later.

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Originally Posted by jglass38

The shipper should be sending it priority overnight to arrive by no later than 10:30. If no one is home, the package wont be delivered unless there is a signature on file

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The latest i have ever had a package arrive at the buyers home was around 11:30 am,It was guarenteed by 12 noon.Reason being she lives of the beaten path as FEDEX put it.Something about they had to use a mountain goat in order to get to her house:P :8: .Just joking as far as the last sentence is concerned.

Ya, I guess I could do that..Just thought someone in here would know.

my estimated shipping by time was 430pm from fedex, it arrived @ 1230ish. it really depends on where you are located at, if you have your tracking number go to fedex tracing and it will give you all the details.

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Originally Posted by djslurp1200

Ya, I guess I could do that..Just thought someone in here would know.

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You can go to www.fedex.com, and place the tracking numbers the sellar should have given you in the track package section and see its progress.No one here can guess when it should be at your home.

I'm sorry let me rephrase what i said..

I thought someone in here might know....

Adam knew LoL...

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Originally Posted by djslurp1200

I'm sorry let me rephrase what i said..

I thought someone in here might know....

Adam knew LoL...

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I'm sorry, didn't your question get answered adequately by the people that responded? You could have always called FedEx and not wasted people's time :cool:

Well I apologize for wasting your time. Adam told me after i had posted it...

THank you jglass and jcaustralia

but no I was just curiuose thats all...ANyways...thank you guys

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Originally Posted by djslurp1200

Well I apologize for wasting your time. Adam told me after i had posted it...

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Adam is a superstar. He loves to get phone calls like that. Any way he can pass on valuable info. He also likes to talk about cats, white teeth and racoons.

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Originally Posted by jglass38

He also likes to talk about cats, white teeth and racoons.

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That's very dark humor brother ... you're lucky I'm silly for the inside pulls. :sweeet:

-adam

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

That's very dark humor brother ... you're lucky I'm silly for the inside pulls. :sweeet:

-adam

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The darker the better! :D Now where the hell is my wallet!?

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Originally Posted by jglass38

The darker the better! :D Now where the hell is my wallet!?

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The sillies that were at the table next to us in the sports bar Saturday night have it.

-adam

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

The sillies that were at the table next to us in the sports bar Saturday night have it.

-adam

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I don't doubt it! :eek:

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Originally Posted by jglass38

I don't doubt it! :eek:

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I was worried that they might have heard me ... but we made it home alive, so I guess not. ;)

-adam

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

I was worried that they might have heard me ... but we made it home alive, so I guess not. ;)

-adam

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You got lucky! The S word can make someone really upset. I personally don't mind being called silly..I am...

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Originally Posted by jglass38

The shipper should be sending it priority overnight to arrive by no later than 10:30.

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IF you are located in a rural area, Fedex priority overnight is only guaranteed to arrive by 4:30 pm. To check if you are in a rural area, go to Fedex.com and get a shipping time from someplace random to your home using Priority Overnight. If it gives you a 4:30 pm delivery time, you are considered a rural area by Fedex.

To get around the 4:30 pm delivery time, call Fedex to findout where the nearest distribution faculity is and once you get a tracking number....have FedEx hold the package there. That way, you can be there when they open their doors early in the morning and pick up your package.

Thanks daniel. Yeah, I know i'm not in a rural area. Hillsborough county has more people in it then the entire state of maine. I live in citrus park which is west tampa. suburban I guess...alot of houses...5 minutes from downtown

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Originally Posted by djslurp1200

Thanks daniel. Yeah, I know i'm not in a rural area. Hillsborough county has more people in it then the entire state of maine. I live in citrus park which is west tampa area. suburban I guess...alot of houses...5 minutes from downtown

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It still would not hurt to check. I live on the border of a city and a small town....but have an address from the small town. So even though people two blocks up are guaranteed their package by 10:30 am.....I am only guaranteed my package by 4:30 pm. If I have a priority overnight package sent to my house, I will not recieve it before 10:30 am. I found this out the hard way last week when I was shipped my monitors.....they did not arrive until around 2:30 pm.

From now on, all my packages will be held at the distribution facuility and I can pick them up at 7:30 am when the doors open ;)

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

It still would not hurt to check. I live on the border of a city and a small town....but have an address from the small town. So even though people two blocks up are guaranteed their package by 10:30 am.....I am only guaranteed my package by 4:30 pm. If I have a priority overnight package sent to my house, I will not recieve it before 10:30 am. I found this out the hard way last week when I was shipped my monitors.....they did not arrive until around 2:30 pm.;)

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I'll check on the fedex site and try..

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

To get around the 4:30 pm delivery time, call Fedex to findout where the nearest distribution faculity is and once you get a tracking number....have FedEx hold the package there. That way, you can be there when they open their doors early in the morning and pick up your package.

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James Brown has told me multiple times that "hold at location" is not an option for FedEx live animal shippers ... Unless there's been a change of policy in the last 6-8 months, it could be a contact violation.

Not trying to lecture or judge here (I don't care either way) ... just sharing some first hand knowledge that I have on the issue because it's something that I've fought for with FedEx and I'll continue to fight for it.

To quote James Brown directly, FedEx "does not want live snakes within their buildings or vehicles one second longer than need be" ... FedEx would "much rather have them on a truck than sitting within a FedEx facility" ... and "hold at location would open up a can of worms that FedEx does not want to deal with".

I've gone back and forth with him several times on the issue and have yet to be able to make an inch of progress ... but I'll keep trying. ;) :sweeet:

-adam

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

James Brown has told me multiple times that "hold at location" is not an option for FedEx live animal shippers ... Unless there's been a change of policy in the last 6-8 months, it could be a contact violation.

Not trying to lecture or judge here (I don't care either way) ... just sharing some first hand knowledge that I have on the issue because it's something that I've fought for with FedEx and I'll continue to fight for it.

To quote James Brown directly, FedEx "does not want live snakes within their buildings or vehicles one second longer than need be" ... FedEx would "much rather have them on a truck than sitting within a FedEx facility" ... and "hold at location would open up a can of worms that FedEx does not want to deal with".

I've gone back and forth with him several times on the issue and have yet to be able to make an inch of progress ... but I'll keep trying. ;) :sweeet:

-adam

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Would you really believe a FedEx employee that looks like this?

http://www.womensenews.org/images/James-Brown-1706.jpg

What? Did you mean a different James Brown? :D

Thanks for that input Adam. I was unaware of that....guess I need to reread my contract ;) I don't know how I could get a package to my house before 4:30 pm then...

Looks like it is Plan B.......Have all packages delivered to a friend that lives in the city to get the package by 10:30 am ;)

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

Thanks for that input Adam. I was unaware of that....guess I need to reread my contract ;) I don't know how I could get a package to my house before 4:30 pm then...

Looks like it is Plan B.......Have all packages delivered to a friend that lives in the city to get the package by 10:30 am ;)

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There is no specific wording in the contract that says that you can't do it ... but the business to business wording is what FedEx legal will always fall back on.

Lots of people use hold at location and do not have any problems ... I think that it's mostly due to the fact that most FedEx station managers aren't even aware that there is a live shipper program ... I think that the only time it will be a problem is if a shipper on the program shipped a snake that got out ... "technically" they can't kick you out of the program for an escape, but they would want you gone ... so they would use things like shipping to "hold at location" or to residences to terminate your contract and provent you from ever being able to ship live animals via FedEx again.

It's a safety net.

I do a montly meeting with my FedEx sales rep and it's one of the things that we've discussed many times ... he is working on it from his end for me so maybe one day it will happen. ;)

-adam