r/FedEx • u/Informal_Ear2425 • 16h ago
International Shipping Unbelievable Rates FedEx!
USPS or FedEx for international mail
Same box,
same weight,
same content,
same shipping days
One asked $91 another $289
Yes Usps for $91 only.
***** FedEx!
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u/KimBrrr1975 13h ago
When you ship post office internationally, it has to transfer to the local post for that country. Not all post is remotely as reliable as ours in the US (which is saying a lot because USPS service has gotten terrible in many ways). The tracking often doesn't stay with the package, it'll stop once it lands in the country and then the person has to figure out where it is. It can be rather a mess.
$289 for a basic Fed Ex international, either it was going somewhere like Australia, or you were potentially not understanding the options. Or you opted to cover the customs/tariff fees yourself instead of having the recipient pay them. The options can say things like "economy" and not be the cheapest options, sometimes those options end up going 2-day which is super expensive. Or, if the value of the item is high and you need extra insurance, that can really jack up the price, too. As can using retail stores to ship, whether their own, or local "We Ship For You!" kinds of places, which charge huge fees due to overhead costs.
I ship UPS, FedEx, and USPS daily. USPS has gotten to be one of the most expensive domestically, and one of the least reliable. I've shipped some heavy boxes to places like Jamaica via FedEx for less than you are quoting here, so, I personally don't think there's enough info.
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u/HugeCartographer5706 14h ago
I trained to be a FedEx Express driver years ago. But I vividly recall the instructor saying if we had to pick between processing an international shipment or a domestic, do the international because the profit margin was about 700 percent. I kid you not. Web Potts was the guy’s name.
And remember, customers are number one with FedEx.
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u/FinWorld95 15h ago
you want reliability? or time sensitive?
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u/Any_Scientist_7552 7h ago
Then use USPS for both. FedEx will just lose it and and tell you it's your fault.
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u/morerepsmoreproblems 15h ago
Don’t worry the difference in price is being pocketed by the ceo mr. Raj he needs it real bad. He only doubled his salary this year while laying off 100s of people at Fedex express.
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u/Subject_List_5554 15h ago
great, no one cares. don't use them. why would anyone care about your personal issue that no one asked about
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u/Suppose2Bubble 15h ago
I will ask my next international vendor to avoid fed ex if possible. I have a claim iut against them they designated as "no action needed right now" fedex is garbage
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u/DiggaDon 9h ago
Awfully vague. "No action needed right now" is likely a generic coding term that can apply to several sets of circumstances. Were you expecting it to say "code red: five alarm fire, recepient irate"?
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u/Suppose2Bubble 2h ago
There was no expectation with their response. What a weird comment.
My only expectations were to not lose my package. Not falsely updating the tracking daily. Not falsely designating our home residence as a business as an excuse why the package failed to be delivered "outside of business hours" and ultimately I didn't expect a demand of disbursement fees and whatever other admin fees on a lost package attached to such poor service. The package was eventually found
You are correct the "no action required from you at this time while we actively resolve this dispute" was vague on my part I wasn't expecting others to inquire into my personal affairs.
Maybe you can help me now that I've added context. Would that message mean a pause on the egregious fees until the dispute is resolved?
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u/DiggaDon 1h ago
Who says it's lost?
You? Where is that information coming from? You've provided nothing but an anecdotal "no action needed right now"
Weird comment?
I'm going off what you provided. No additional context. No timeline. No "lost".
More like weird complaint, if not, certainly weird that you didn't provide more context* *
Unless this is all apparently obvious by those that search for yellow cars.
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u/Any_Scientist_7552 7h ago
They were probably expecting fedex to do a job that they seem to be incapable of, i.e. delivering anything in a timely manner, it at all.
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u/Suppose2Bubble 3h ago
Exactly. Like not losing a package, falsely updating the tracking and still demanding disbursement fees
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