Race
In my previous post I speculated on which of the two packages I have shipped over the last few days would arrive at its destination first, thus winning the race. Would it be the USPS package full of 35mm film that shipped out on Saturday or would it be the FedEx envelope with my passport renewal application that shipped out last night?
I have the answer.
The film has arrived at The Darkroom. I can expect my scans to be uploaded to my account in 3-7 business days. In other words, an eternity. Disney and New York on film… coming soon.
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Frankfurt Friday 30th August 2024.
N117FE, Boeing 727-25C, Federal Express, parked on it's gate at Frankfurt Airport, 16th October 1993.
6 photos behind the link.
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Tuesday afternoon got less productive for me when I had to get in a 20-mile errand through some of Northern Virginia’s less enjoyable traffic. My reason for this drive to a light-industrial stretch of Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria a few blocks from a trash-to-energy plant? A company that exists largely to deliver packages to people’s homes.
FedEx handed off this logistical chore to me after a series of missed connections that I should have seen coming, because I’ve seen it before. And I’ve written about it before–or I think I have, except Google and Bing can’t locate the post I remember doing for the Washington Post that included the phrase “FedEx house arrest.”
Back then and again this week, the problem began with a shipment for which the sender had required a recipient’s signature. In this case, it was a Pixel 6a phone from Google, a free replacement under a warranty-extension program for the Pixel 5a phone that had mysteriously self-bricked earlier this month. I had taken Google up on that offer Tuesday of last week while out of town, thinking that this order wouldn’t get fulfilled until I returned Sunday night.
But contrary to the e-mail from Google estimating a delivery window from Tuesday through Friday of this week, FedEx first showed up Wednesday of last week. With nobody around, the driver left a door tag asking for a signature; the neighbor who had been stopping by to check on our cat then texted a picture of that note, asking what to do.
The tag didn’t specify that my neighbor could have signed it, and meanwhile I thought I could solve the problem in FedEx’s delivery manager by waiving the signature requirement there. But that did nothing, resulting in another missed delivery and another door tag on Thursday. My attempt to set a vacation hold instead of just telling my neighbor to sign the door tag was equally unproductive, leading to yet another missed delivery.
After three “delivery exception” strikes, I was out–except FedEx’s site didn’t say that, instead describing the package as “on the way.” Throughout Monday, it predicted a delivery by 8 p.m. that night. That did not happen. When I got an equally vague delivery forecast Tuesday, I finally picked up the phone to call the company. Only then was I informed that I had to pick up the package at the FedEx shipping center in Alexandria before it closed that evening, lest this package get routed back to Google.
With my replacement phone finally picked up at the price of a reacquaintance with the traffic many people around here deal with every day, I then went all of 20 hours before another FedEx disconnect.
Thursday afternoon, the missed delivery was a new laptop for my wife. I knew it was coming at some point that day, but without an equivalent to Amazon’s delivery-map feature–an upgrade you might have thought FedEx would have made during the pandemic–I didn’t know when I should be near the front door.
And because I have an uncanny knack for being in the basement doing laundry or in the backyard weeding or otherwise not eyeing the front-porch steps when FedEx deliverypeople arrive, I missed that delivery attempt. The door tag is now signed, and I trust that this delivery saga will end Friday. I have less confidence that FedEx will sand down these rough spots in its delivery experience anytime soon.
https://robpegoraro.com/2024/08/22/fedexs-delivery-of-delivery-data-could-use-some-work/
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4L-85430, Tupolev TU-154B-2, ORBI Georgian Airlines, at Amsterdam Schipol, 27th September 1996.
D-ADFD, Fokker F100, Deustche BA, at Dusseldorf Airport, 11th October 1996.
G-BTTO, British Aerospace ATP, Eurodirect Airlines, at Woodford Air Show, 1994 or 1995.
F-WWAX/N654FE, Airbus A300F4-605R, Federal Express, on static display at Farnborough Air Show, 10th September 1994.
F-GCVM, Sud Aviation SE-210 Super Caravelle 12, Air Provence International, at Frankfurt Airport, 21st September 1996.
HB-IZK, Saab 2000, CrossAir, in the “Phantom of the Opera” colour scheme, at Geneva Cointrin, 5th October 1996.
F-ODVF, Airbus A310-304, Royal Jordanian, at London Heathrow, some time in the 1990s.
LX-LGL, Embraer EMB-120ER Brasilia, LuxAir, at Manchester Airport, some time in the 1990s.
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N114FE, Boeing 727-24C(F), Federal Express, at Basle-Mulhouse, 10th October 1996.
PH-MC_, Boeing 767-31AER, Martinair Holland, at Amsterdam Schipol, either 1992, 1993, or 1996.
D-AIBC, Airbus A340-211, Lufthansa, at Dusseldorf Airport, either 1993 or 1996.
LZ-BOB, Boeing 737-53A, Balkan Bulgarian Airlines, at Frankfurt Airport, 21st September 1996.
G-BTTO, British Aerospace Advanced Turbo Prop (ATP), EuroDirect, taxiing from left to right having just landed after performing a display flight at the Woodford Air Show, some time in the late 1990s.
LZ-BTK, Tupolev Tu154B, Balkan Bulgarian Airlines, at Manchester Airport, some time in the 1990s.
5N-AUF, Airbus A310-221, Nigeria Airways, parked on it’s stand at Terminal 2 at London Heathrow, as seen through the windows of Burger King in Terminal 3 early one morning, some time in the 1990s.
G-LYON, Douglas DC10-30, JMC Air, at London Gatwick, some time in the late 1990s.
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#a300 #a310 #a340 #AbuDhabiAmiriFlight #AdvancedTurboProp #airbus #ams #amsterdam #atp #b727 #b737 #b767 #bae #BalkanBulgarian #barton #Basle #boeing #BritishAerospace #BSL #Bulldog #CityAirport #dc10 #douglas #dus #dusseldorf #eddf #eddl #egcb #egcc #egcd #egkk #egll #eham #eurodirect #FederalExpress #fra #frankfurt #gatwick #heathrow #JMCAir #l13 #LFSB #lgw #lhr #london #lufthansa #man #manchester #MartinairHolland #Mulhouse #NigeriaAirways #raf #RoyalAirForce #schipol #ScottishAviation #tu154 #tupolev #woodford
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