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My father, who has been dabbling in photography, recently decided to replace
the 2 mp Mavica he had been using with a Nikon D40. After shopping around,
he got me to order one for him. I ordered it on July 10th. It was shipped
on July 11th. FEDERAL EXCUSE (FedEx) loses it on July 12th. The shipper
had it insured, but from what I have read it could take weeks to sort this
crap out.

Fed-Up-Ex-Fed-Ex Customer

"DR SMITH" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> My father, who has been dabbling in photography, recently decided to
> replace the 2 mp Mavica he had been using with a Nikon D40. After
> shopping around, he got me to order one for him. I ordered it on
> July 10th. It was shipped on July 11th. FEDERAL EXCUSE (FedEx)
> loses it on July 12th. The shipper had it insured, but from what I
> have read it could take weeks to sort this crap out.
>
> Fed-Up-Ex-Fed-Ex Customer
Oh woe is me! Whatever shall I do! What tragedy!
We will all weep for you!

"Frank Arthur" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "DR SMITH" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> My father, who has been dabbling in photography, recently decided to
>> replace the 2 mp Mavica he had been using with a Nikon D40. After
>> shopping around, he got me to order one for him. I ordered it on July
>> 10th. It was shipped on July 11th. FEDERAL EXCUSE (FedEx) loses it on
>> July 12th. The shipper had it insured, but from what I have read it
>> could take weeks to sort this crap out.
>>
>> Fed-Up-Ex-Fed-Ex Customer
> Oh woe is me! Whatever shall I do! What tragedy!
> We will all weep for you!
>
You're one of them aren't you?

"DR SMITH" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> My father, who has been dabbling in photography, recently decided to
> replace the 2 mp Mavica he had been using with a Nikon D40. After
> shopping around, he got me to order one for him. I ordered it on July
> 10th. It was shipped on July 11th. FEDERAL EXCUSE (FedEx) loses it on
> July 12th. The shipper had it insured, but from what I have read it could
> take weeks to sort this crap out.
>
> Fed-Up-Ex-Fed-Ex Customer
>

FedEx and their competitors handle a zillion packages per year. Stuff can
happen. If you are actually some kind of a Doctor you shouldn't be unaware
of that risk. And if you find that risk to be to great then you ought to
buy your cameras locally and carry them home with you. My advice is for you
to go do something worthwhile and allow the situation unravel.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
"Wilson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> "DR SMITH" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed). ..
> > My father, who has been dabbling in photography, recently decided to
> > replace the 2 mp Mavica he had been using with a Nikon D40. After
> > shopping around, he got me to order one for him. I ordered it on July
> > 10th. It was shipped on July 11th. FEDERAL EXCUSE (FedEx) loses it on
> > July 12th. The shipper had it insured, but from what I have read it could
> > take weeks to sort this crap out.
> >
> > Fed-Up-Ex-Fed-Ex Customer
> >
>
> FedEx and their competitors handle a zillion packages per year. Stuff can
> happen. If you are actually some kind of a Doctor you shouldn't be unaware
> of that risk. And if you find that risk to be to great then you ought to
> buy your cameras locally and carry them home with you. My advice is for you
> to go do something worthwhile and allow the situation unravel.

Reported by FedEx on December 17, 2007, their busiest day ever:

"FedEx will ship about 11.3 million packages today, up 15 percent from
its busiest day in 2006, Dec. 18, when 9.8 million packages were
shipped, FedEx spokeswoman Carla Boyd said"

<http://www.examiner.com/a-1108982~De...ing_approaches.
html>

And somehow, most of them get there.

DR SMITH wrote:
> My father, who has been dabbling in photography, recently decided to replace
> the 2 mp Mavica he had been using with a Nikon D40. After shopping around,
> he got me to order one for him. I ordered it on July 10th. It was shipped
> on July 11th. FEDERAL EXCUSE (FedEx) loses it on July 12th. The shipper
> had it insured, but from what I have read it could take weeks to sort this
> crap out.
>
> Fed-Up-Ex-Fed-Ex Customer
>
>

Hey, you may get lucky. You may get your insurance from FedEx and a couple
weeks later they find it and deliver it.

"DR SMITH" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Frank Arthur" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> "DR SMITH" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>> My father, who has been dabbling in photography, recently decided
>>> to replace the 2 mp Mavica he had been using with a Nikon D40.
>>> After shopping around, he got me to order one for him. I ordered
>>> it on July 10th. It was shipped on July 11th. FEDERAL EXCUSE
>>> (FedEx) loses it on July 12th. The shipper had it insured, but
>>> from what I have read it could take weeks to sort this crap out.
>>>
>>> Fed-Up-Ex-Fed-Ex Customer
>> Oh woe is me! Whatever shall I do! What tragedy!
>> We will all weep for you!
>>
> You're one of them aren't you?
Yes. I am a Secret Fed-Ex Agent in charge of harrassing people who
have lost packages. Let me add that to my very long list of what I
have been accused of
over the years.

"Gary Charpentier" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> DR SMITH wrote:
>> My father, who has been dabbling in photography, recently decided to
>> replace the 2 mp Mavica he had been using with a Nikon D40. After
>> shopping around, he got me to order one for him. I ordered it on July
>> 10th. It was shipped on July 11th. FEDERAL EXCUSE (FedEx) loses it on
>> July 12th. The shipper had it insured, but from what I have read it
>> could take weeks to sort this crap out.
>>
>> Fed-Up-Ex-Fed-Ex Customer
>
> Hey, you may get lucky. You may get your insurance from FedEx and a
> couple weeks later they find it and deliver it.
>

I have to admit things are looking up. The replacement is supposed to
arrive tomorrow (Monday, August 4). Ritz Camera shipped it Saturday and
Overnighted it. I just checked the tracking page and it is at the local
FedEx facility. Now hopefully the driver does not delivery it to the local
pawnshop. A coworker of mine who has a firearms license has stopped using
FedEx because of one to many guns ended up at the wrong address. The last
time he used them the FE driver who could not find the address ( the same
address UPS has no problem with) dropped the package half a mile down the
road. The package ( a pistol) bounced around behind the seat of some guy's
pickup truck for a month before the guy remembered he had it and dropped it
off. The FE driver had reported that he had never had it and no one had
signed for it. By this time the gun had been reported stolen. It was a
mess.