FED-EX ground and SMART POST..........It travels around the US with no place to go


I bought a 600.00 piece of audio to be shipped by Fed-Ex ground....Some how the seller decided to ship it Fed-EX Smart Post....Which is not "Smart".........The package leaves Alabama and travels for days and ends up in Troutsdale , Or which is a depot for Fed-Ex.......It lays in there for 4 days untel someone sends it over to USPS.....Now the tracking number doesn't work anymore so I don't know if it will ever show up...... I took the  tracking number to the post office and they can't track it ether.......Now you would say that the tracking number system is different, but this package has always had a USPS tracking number (22 digits) that you could only access through the Fed-Ex tracking system.......The people tell me when it is handed over to the Post office then I can access the tracking number through the USPS system......Do you think I'll ever get my package or my money or anything ?????   Beware "Smart" "Post".........POISON FOR SHIPPING
autospec

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autospec  like yourself we ship a lot too, 500-1000 packages a year.

We were enlightened with smart post 2 years ago, twice we have had the exact same stories! Both times they were delivered.
I would recommend calling Fed Ex, we did in both cases, it made the difference, both times they were delivered within 2 days after the long painful
phone call.  
The savings is actually 40%, with large packages that is huge. Whats funny is I told my wife after the second time no smart post. She said ok,
and keeps on using it. She said this morning after telling her about this thread, we have used smart post 500 times in the last 2 years, so as bad as it is 2 out of 500 is pretty small percentage.