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Ramjet
·I am lucky that I live within a few miles of a FedEx distribution site. I have anything of significance held there and go by on my way home from work. Not 100% convenient, but 100% secure.
Stolen Watches !!!
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JwRosenthal
·I am lucky that I live within a few miles of a FedEx distribution site. I have anything of significance held there and go by on my way home from work. Not 100% convenient, but 100% secure.
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerI need to be more flexible/creative. It’s not a matter of what’s should be, but a matter of what is.
Yes, this summarizes my approach, even when not in the middle of a pandemic. In my experience, outside the current climate, FedEx is the most reliable of any carrier to properly deliver the package and get the required signatures, but even they aren't 100%.
UPS tends to be the worst, at least in my view.
The postal service here is good, and that is partly because I have a mailbox that locks, so in many cases the parcel is locked in the mailbox waiting for me to pick it up. If it's too big to fit in my mailbox they lock it in a bigger box, and then leave the key for that in my locked mailbox.
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BlackTalon
··This Space for RentThey drop the packages in front of the door and do not even knock. Both USPS and UPS have done this with 'sig req'd' packages this past week.
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Wuza72
·Was the parcel only insured for 50€ or what’s the reason for the low refund? I know the usual options with DHL in Germany are insurances of 50€, 500€ or 2500€.
I noticed a huge decline in reliability with DHL when the Corona crisis started. Sure, more parcels were being sent so I‘m not complaining about longer transit times, but I‘ve lost 2 parcels and 2 registered letters in the last 3 month. One of each arrived resealed and empty, but since I live on the 4th floor and postmen here are not required / allowed to pass the front door anymore, they usually just pretend I signed and put the parcel on floor. Right in the hallway, only one step in. Often without closing the door afterwards.
Luckily, none of those parcels were stolen so far but with the two resealed and empty shipments, it was a PITA to claim money back, as DHL initially stated that I had apparently personally accepted the shipment.
I‘ve now changed to a different carrier, with the exception of international shipments, which, for some reason, still works a treat and is usually quicker than anything I‘m sending nationally.
Long story short:
The seller sold an item to me.
He send something, what in detail i will never know because DHL lost the parcel so i would not get get my money back from the seller who statet the parcel was delivered. Same story from PayPal. The only thing i got in the end was the low assurance sum from dhl and a acknowledgement of receipt with a faked signature and a no more communicating seller 😀
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Peter_from_NL
·I always make sure I use insured shipments. Note that these bastards increased the insurance premium for shipments since Corona so they appparently know it is less secure.
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Professor
·I had a watch delivered from India years ago. They mis spelled "sign" on delivery to "sing" on delivery.
The postal delivery driver was a young woman. I gave her my interpretation of a Bollywood song and dance number and asked if that was sufficient. She almost fell off the porch laughing.
The postal delivery driver was a young woman. I gave her my interpretation of a Bollywood song and dance number and asked if that was sufficient. She almost fell off the porch laughing.
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apsm100
··Noob taxpayerI watched my Fedex package (My Apollo XI) come from Japan this week.
It hopped from Japan to South Korea to Alaska to Memphis and then finally to Vancouver. I looked up the Fedex flights so I predicted how long it would take from them to load and sort and where it could be heading next and it is pretty mind boggling (less flights but only a delay of 3 days).
Fedex does not have signature right now but I believe they have to hand it to someone at the door or they won't deliver.
It hopped from Japan to South Korea to Alaska to Memphis and then finally to Vancouver. I looked up the Fedex flights so I predicted how long it would take from them to load and sort and where it could be heading next and it is pretty mind boggling (less flights but only a delay of 3 days).
Fedex does not have signature right now but I believe they have to hand it to someone at the door or they won't deliver.
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JwRosenthal
·I used to ship my photo equipment Fedex hold at facility when doing any travel that couldn’t be done by vehicle (more than a 2 day drive). On one trip to Nevada, of 11 cases they lost one- it was a Noblex panoramic camera. They didn’t care nor could be bothered to find it at first (this was me standing in the FedEx office with 10 of 11 pieces in front of them). Then I showed them on the invoice that it was insured for full replacement value- they found it within 20 minutes.
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Martin_J_N
·No carrier that I am aware of has been getting signatures on parcels since the pandemic started. They all have notices to that effect on their web sites, so none of this should be a surprise.
Not a watch but here in the UK my son had a new I-Phone delivered by DPD yesterday. I had to show ID before the parcel was handed to me as he was out, then the driver had to upload a scan of the parcel’s barcode which logged the time of delivery, before taking a picture of me holding the sealed package and upload that as proof of delivery. The driver stated that the scanner they use doesn’t allow them to confirm the delivery unless all steps are completed in order. We had to stand at my door watching the upload complete one segment at a time, only when all the steps were completed did the screen say the delivery process was concluded. Took about 5 minutes and the driver was itching to get to the next drop. The whole process was very thorough with the scanner controlling what the driver had to do, impressed.
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Evitzee
·It seems most all signature requirements are being ignored, yet last week I got a small packet in the mail from Switzerland and the USPS lady knocked on my door and I had to physically sign the pink card that it had been delivered. It was small enough that it could easily have been left in my locked mailbox, and the value on the customs declaration sticker was only CHF 20. Don't know if they are getting back to normal or if it was just a one off by a diligent PO employee, which is an oxymoron with post office folks in most cases.
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Alpha
·Last week I had a package delivered whilst I was at home, the first I knew was when I received an image of the package on the doorstep 😀
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TimeODanaos
·Last week I had a package delivered whilst I was at home, the first I knew was when I received an image of the package on the doorstep 😀
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sonicosa
·I have a watch in transit with DHL that I’m starting to think might have been lost by the carrier or stolen by an employee.
Update - my watch arrived on Tuesday, so my worries were unfounded. Guess I should have shown a bit more patience since we're in a pandemic, but not being told everyday by DHL that it would be "delivered tomorrow" and a general dodginess on the part of most of their customer service reps wasn't particularly reassuring.
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