TLDR: Fedex botched delivery and led to them getting stolen.
TLDR: Fedex botched delivery and led to them getting stolen.
“We checked up on our inventory levels and it was a little bit short,” Sasser said. “We contacted the shipping center, and they're like, ‘Yeah, weird. These pallets–—FedEx said they were delivered, but we have no trace of them. But another thing that you might want to know that's weird is, two weeks, after your pallets went missing, two other pallets were delivered by FedEx to the construction site next door instead of our shipping warehouse.
“The person that signed for the two pallets that they recovered was the same person that signed for the two pallets that [they] have yet to recover,” Sasser said. “So there's a lot of research happening right now.
I work as a shipper, and I find this altogether too painfully familiar. The number of times I've tracked a shipment that was signed for but the client reports never having received is just... way...
I work as a shipper, and I find this altogether too painfully familiar. The number of times I've tracked a shipment that was signed for but the client reports never having received is just... way too high.
Then I have to waste an hour or more chasing down people and trying to find someone named "Joe" or perhaps "Illegible" at such-and-such address to see if I can't get the shipment where it's actually supposed to be.
That being said, I do tend to agree with Sasser's assessment that most people are good and that things tend to work out. Then again, I ship meteorological equipment, not handheld game consoles, so the black market on my shipments has a bit of a different vibe about it, I imagine. Now, please excuse me while I imagine a rogue meteorologist looking to buy some gently-used equipment on the cheap.
TLDR: Fedex botched delivery and led to them getting stolen.
I work as a shipper, and I find this altogether too painfully familiar. The number of times I've tracked a shipment that was signed for but the client reports never having received is just... way too high.
Then I have to waste an hour or more chasing down people and trying to find someone named "Joe" or perhaps "Illegible" at such-and-such address to see if I can't get the shipment where it's actually supposed to be.
That being said, I do tend to agree with Sasser's assessment that most people are good and that things tend to work out. Then again, I ship meteorological equipment, not handheld game consoles, so the black market on my shipments has a bit of a different vibe about it, I imagine. Now, please excuse me while I imagine a rogue meteorologist looking to buy some gently-used equipment on the cheap.