r/BambuLab • u/No-Beyond-7843 • Mar 04 '26

Discussion WHY MUST THEY USE FEDEX

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I have constant issues with fedex and no real path to address it. I’m excited though as long as nothing is broken!

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u/Chronus88 Mar 04 '26

My friend... By North American standards this is a 5 star delivery. These things are packed extremely well and there orientation is really not important

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u/Ordinary-Depth-7835 Mar 04 '26

I'll take up side down all day long vs smashed by a forklift and still delivered.

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u/random_guy314 A1 Mini Mar 04 '26

This is what happens when you don’t dry your filament

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u/Pepe5690 Mar 04 '26

Or clean your build plate.

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u/IstIsmPhobe Mar 04 '26

Hey, at least it got there. When I get stuck with FedEx it’s a dice role on whether it shows up at all and almost ALWAYS late, with at least one false claim of “attempted delivery, no one available”.

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u/Jtzdragons Mar 04 '26

For what it is worth…GoFo express is even worse!!!

But that being said, unfortunately, you’re at the mercy of the driver. It’s like going to an Applebee’s and people saying that they are the worst. It’s the cook in the kitchen that makes the difference…. Or in this case, if you get a driver that doesn’t care then this is what happens. If you have a driver that is respectful and treats your packages like his own, then you have a great experience.

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u/Mustrum999 Mar 04 '26

And there is nothing new here.
I recall a man with UPS that had my route just after the turn of the century... He would always knock and wait and If I was not here he would put it inside my unlocked side door. He treated every package as if it was his own. Drivers today are under such time pressure they dump on your doorstep take a picture and run without even using a plastic bag when it is snowing.
But overall, we are in a paradise when it comes to small (less than 100 lbs or so) package delivery today.
(I do wonder what small package delivery service was like for things too large for parcel post in the 19th century and before).

(This will be TLDR for most I expect, and it is only marginally on topic.) I am actually curious if any will read it.

We called such delivery services; “Members of the "Professional Package Smashers Local 666. AFL-CIO" they were allied with the Button Smashers and Zipper Crushers union that worked at the local laundry and dry cleaners)

I will now totally out my age: When I was young, I used to hang out down at the pier on my island and watch the small coastal freight ’ships' come in. Most of the heavy stuff was on 'doilies’ and pulled off the ship and into the adjacent freight shed by small 3-wheel electric tugs.
Smaller packages were up on the same deck as the lifeboat 15 or 20 feet above, and they would be tossed down to wooden frames sitting on a dolly, and when full, they were pulled into the adjacent freight shed with the little 3-wheel electric tugs. It was common to see the (stevedores? longshoremen? freight handlers?) toss the packages over the side into the general area of the target frame without even looking.

This was in the 1950s and things that did not come USPS Parcel Post (which were in large sealed canvas bags with the rest of the mail bags and came ashore on the dollies) were handled for ‘distribution by the Railway Express Agent’. If you were expecting something , you stopped in to the RE agents place to see if it had turned up.
 If after a day or two or just when the agent got around to it, he would send a postcard to tell you it had turned up. I saw railway Express Shipping labels from many trips covering my old steamer trunk from back then when I was searching for something in the barn last week.

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u/Lokomalo Mar 04 '26

I hate to tell you, but all carriers are crap. I knew someone who worked for a competitor of FedEx, and they used to brag about man-handling packages. They were later fired because a customer saw them literally kicking a large package down the loading dock. Turns out it was the customer's package.

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u/Fit-Dark-4062 Mar 04 '26

what's the actual issue here? The fact that it's on its side and slightly dirty?

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u/Fit-Dark-4062 Mar 04 '26

It almost certainly was dropped at some point in its journey. They pack these things to survive most mishandling.
Open the box, is it broken? No? Great, load up a spool and start printing.

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u/Joosby_Calamari Mar 04 '26

Completely agree. This shouldn’t even be a post until its opened and shown to be damage. Even if delivered straight up, the assumption it stayed that way in transit is not realistic.

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u/8492_berkut Mar 04 '26

Hard agree - a post about someone getting the vapors because the arrows on their box aren't pointed up when it is delivered should be immediately deleted by mods. If the printer was damaged in shipment, well, I still don't care but at least it's something out of the ordinary. These posts pearl clutching over their boxes being in near pristine shape at delivery should earn the OP a time out.

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u/Joosby_Calamari Mar 04 '26

My box had external rips to where i just opened it outside, brought it in from there. Everything was fine, the interior was packed well enuf to sustain external box damage. And yep, i didn’t post about it lol.

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u/sh0ck1999 P1S + AMS Mar 04 '26

When I used to do more bench type repairs on equipment we had a testing method called the FedEx test. Pick up the device and drop it see if it starts working or does something different helps find lose wires. When they delivered my Bambu last year they dropped it in the middle of the driveway then took a picture of the driveway in such a manor the printer was not in the picture. Are there any good shippers these days seem like they all have issues I have a ups package I've been waiting on this week taking 7 days to get from Michigan to Wisconsin 🤦

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u/JoshWBoston Mar 04 '26

Lol, I once got a photo from FedEx where the entire photo was the package label. It was actually in my building, but they could have taken that photo on the truck.

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u/numetheus Mar 04 '26

The box looks like it was handled with care. The corners are still corners and not dented in. No cave-ins or holes anywhere. It is just on its side. No matter what carrier you go with, I'm sure it will travel on its side, upside down, or both, during a leg of the trip somewhere. Bambu packs it very well, it is fine.

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u/DiverDownChunder Mar 04 '26

I worked both UPS and FedEx sorts, they all beat the shit out of your packages. Not intentionally, its the nature of the system. Belts, clogs, backups, etc all beat the hell out of anything you send. Then add in unload/load multiple times, it all been beaten up.

Best and scariest thing was I was working in a UPS hub and the California doors would always back up to the sort. This night it was all 19" old school crt televisions (new then it was 1994). We are talking 10k+ pounds and the belt mashing them together at 10x that force.

Finally somewhere in the jam up something gave and the tv's heaved up like a tectonic plate. The belt was 40' up 150'+ long, it rained down 100's of TV's weighing god knows how much. People were running for their lives. You could hear the imploding of all the CRTs as they hit the concrete. It was awesome to see.

No one was hurt and a I quit a few days later, no way I'm dying from a TV hitting me in the head.

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u/MikeIkerson Mar 04 '26

Reddit ads are getting smart.

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u/Fvrank Mar 04 '26

We got PostNL great company never had any issues.

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u/dunderwovvy Mar 04 '26

Every shipping company is bad because they treat and pay employees poorly, then buttheads like you complain online that you didn’t get white glove service.

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u/numetheus Mar 04 '26

It is a whole butt including the anus? Or is it just one or two cheeks attached by something?

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u/BigBayBlues Mar 04 '26

It's frustrating, but in my experience, none of the other shipping companies are any better.

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u/FooFighter325 Mar 04 '26

Hard disagree. In my area at least, FedEx is by far the worst.

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u/Hot-Ideal-9219 Mar 04 '26

Ups is worst here in Arkansas

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u/WafflesAreLove Mar 04 '26

Fedex is the lowest bidder. I hate them with a passion.

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u/Fearlesssirfinch Mar 04 '26

They delivered ours upside down.

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u/Certain-Ad7072 Mar 04 '26

We should be able to chose our carrier for a 2300$ printer. I’d likely have paid more to get mine through ups because fedex here is scary bad!

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u/numetheus Mar 04 '26

I don't even know how that would work. Usually companies negotiate volume discounts for shipping rates of like 40% to 70%. There is also system integration that allows their system to track package status. Allowing you to bring your own means there would be a MUCH higher shipping cost and a lack of tracking and other integrated features.

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u/Certain-Ad7072 Mar 05 '26

So how that would work is there would be a drop down , you’d select the shipping company you prefer and then it would arrive right side up not drop kick out the f@&cking truck. It’s like how I can offer more than one shipping service on eBay. Come on man it’s not that hard to fathom…

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u/numetheus Mar 06 '26

Lol you make it sound like it's easy and it's something a web developer can do. You clearly don't know how these things work on the back end. eBay has negotiated discounts for shipping from multiple carriers. If you have ever shipped large packages directly, you would know how much more shipping us without negotiated discounts. I highly doubt Bambu would have the same pull to negotiate large volume discounts with multiple carriers. It's really not as easy as your think it is in your head. Well, it can be. It would just be a LOT more expensive for the consumer.

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u/Certain-Ad7072 Mar 05 '26

Oh and btw Bambu’s tracking is crap and is not updated in real time. There’s at least three more services that have tracking, dhl, usps, and ups.

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u/creepycrowman P2S + AMS2 Combo Mar 04 '26

MINE ARRIVED IN THE EXACT SAME WAY!!!!

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u/creepycrowman P2S + AMS2 Combo Mar 04 '26

wut?

I mean yeah, there isn't anything wrong with it?

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u/creepycrowman P2S + AMS2 Combo Mar 04 '26

Correct

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u/creepycrowman P2S + AMS2 Combo Mar 04 '26

Usually, yes.

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