New shipping experience with FedEx

Do you tape the styro together? That's what I do, stops the squeaks.

 

Ive quit taking boxes to the stores all together. I pay the pick up fee happily. Im pretty sure the afternoon guy who picks up my boxes knows there's beer in there. I think he enjoyed the holiday gift bag I left for him and he now turns a blind eye.

I want to say this guy is just a wannabe badass, but they also have rules to follow. Part of me says they shouldnt turn away business, part of me says they need to follow the rules and regs.

I guess id just set a pick up or try a few different fedex stores.

 

Threaten his mother...

 

I've been told the same about the squeaking ,I just said I ship novelty lamps and use styrofoam shippers since it fits perfect

 

Return with another 12 bottle shipper stuffed full of sex toys, tell the guy you don't know what's in there because your boss asked you to ship it to his mother. Give him the go-ahead to open it.

 

Taping them together doesn't always stop the squeaking.

There is no good way to stop it... though it does help marginally.

The guy was just being a prick.

 

I have had luck taping the edges and wrapping the entire styro shipper in shrink wrap.

 

Put newspaper between the top/bottom styro pieces.

 

Nine times out of ten its an electric razor. But every once in a while........it's a dildo

 

So, basically this guy is saying that ONLY beer is shipped in styrofoam? How can they say automatically, because they hear "squeeking," that it is beer? Seems odd to me.

 

you want to ship him some of yours, or should he waste hundeds of dollars on novelties. And yes, you can spend hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and ...

 

I tend to go overboard on my styroshippers, taping across the top and bottoms to help reinforce (and reduce the sound of styro rubbing against the box), as well as throwing an inch of packing peanuts into the bottom before slotting the bottles (which have two layers of bubble wrap and enough newspaper as filler to keep them from wiggling at all once slotted) that I have to actually lean over and press myself down against the top of the shipper in order to tape the two pieces together so the entire thing fits in the box. I've never heard the sound of styro rubbing when I do that and the box is all taped shut.

I also tend to cover the bottom of the box (that includes the 12 PK UNIV FC print) with brown packing tape so just in case someone gets overzealous with a cursory examination there's nothing suspicious.

Actually, given that I need to pack a couple boxes this weekend, I may just photo document my process and post it.

 

Sounds like that FedExguy is a turd.

I've never had an issue. I think the peeps at my local FedEx know what I'm shipping but they really don't care

 

I've had similar issues when dropping styro-shipping style boxes off at FedEx hubs. I now avoid them. I now always use FedEx Kinko's drop centers: put the box on the counter, wave, smile, say "These are all ready to go," and walk out. Easy. The employees are always happy to see you in and out as quickly as possible because the places are usually filled with people that actually require some sort of customer-service assistance/help.

 

I do the same. My local dropoff store employs mostly college students, none of whom care about what is in the box. I also try to avoid shipping more than one box at a time.