. Fed ex sucks

[acropora4u]

Was supposed to get a coral shipment yesterday of nice acropora frags… as they usually do FedEx drop the ball left a package in Memphis and decided that they would deliver it to me on Saturday instead well it’s 1:30 PM Eastern and still no FedEx. I’m quite sure those are some dead SPS. FedEx is the ******* worst.

 

[eliaslikesfish]

RIP

 

[doubleshot00]

Yeah i hate fedex to. They are not a very good company from the top down.

 

[esquare]

I have to deal with the shipping companies all the time with work and they just don't care. There is such a high demand for shipping that they have more business then they can handle.

 

[WalkerLovesTheOcean]

I am sorry to hear that.

I have had a pretty bad FedEx experience too, where my 15g fish tank got delayed by a whole week.

 

[flashsmith]

This is why I won't buy from a livestock vendor who uses FedEx. No matter how good their reputation is. They just aren't dependable. UPS on the other hand has never been later than 11:00am to my door for overnight. That's from Cali to Central Florida. The last time I used a vendor that shipped FedEx was probably 2 years ago. My livestock showed up at 11:30 PM overnight.. lol

 

[Reefer Matt]

I agree with everyone above. There also isn’t a hub in my area so I gotta drive 40 minutes to pickup a deferred package. UPS overnight is always reliable for me.

 

[acropora4u]

Brandon is a standup guy, frags are always awesome. Little story….I ordered frags from the 10 year sale and Brandon shipped them on Thursday for Friday delivery ( yesterday) …well, you know , stuff happens and fed ex left the package in the Memphis airport. So, delayed a whole day ! I called fed ex and pleaded with them to make an early Saturday delivery. …the balls on them , they said “ since this was not shipped as a Saturday delivery we cannot deliver this until Monday! What are you ****** kidding me so I said let me speak to the supervisor and finally I got to a supervisor and they made it happen

so I was waiting all morning for it and guess what it doesn’t show up until almost 2 o’clock in the afternoon. I’m thinking everything‘s got to be gone. But to my surprise, I saw some polyps although the Coral had browned out a bit - it still had polyps. So I did the acclamation, as I usually would and they are looking pretty dang awesome right now I will keep a close eye on them for the next few days and hope they stay looking good

Brandon also went above and beyond and gave me an additional three day guarantee that they’ll stay alive.

Here are some pics after acclimation

 

[Dmmz]

I am glad they appear to have made it