FedEx exception. Returning to Sender

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Message Drake P admin beers 21771 º places 1252 º 13:12 Sat 6/22/2013 Originally posted by mikem409 Originally posted by Cleg So then in your opinion it is still 100% false? Even if my story is 1/10,000 it still makes it 99.99% false. No need to make blanket statements Yes your giving poor advice claiming it will be sent to Utah If they don’t call fedex You could have quoted just that part of the post instead of the whole thing. No offense, and you’re a stand up guy, but that was kind of a dick move.
Message Forgetfu 15:25 Sat 6/22/2013 Less than 3 weeks ago, i had 2 boxes rejected by Fedex for "Improper shipment - Alcohol". Both boxes were heading to an office address in the Atlanta area. The delivery driver apparently got wise, realized they were alcohol, and rejected em. Interestingly, they never even opened the boxes. Both boxes were returned to me (the sender). They had a red and white label on them which stated that it was being returned because of alcohol. They had written "RTS" in multiple places on the box. I did nothing, the boxes just came back to me. I then covered up the RTS writing, replaced the label and sent them back out using Fedex Home to the same recepient’s home address. They arrived safely 4 days later. No black-list, no random reroute to Utah, no problems (well, other than the fact that 48 bottles had to cross the country 3 times instead of once). So, don’t worry about it, don’t worry about being blacklisted. Drink a beer and wait for the box to show back up. Now, if you’re my buddy who was supposed to receive the packages at his office, HE has something to worry about. His driver has gotten smart to what he’s doing, and is apparently big on Fedex vigilante justice.
Message Homer321 P beers 5369 º places 54 º 14:46 Wed 6/26/2013 It was breakage that caused the return. I’ll let the sender chime in as far as any hassles with FedEx and/or and other problems in dealing with them.

Message csano 20:04 Wed 6/26/2013 Originally posted by Forgetfu Less than 3 weeks ago, i had 2 boxes rejected by Fedex for "Improper shipment - Alcohol". Both boxes were heading to an office address in the Atlanta area. The delivery driver apparently got wise, realized they were alcohol, and rejected em. Interestingly, they never even opened the boxes. Both boxes were returned to me (the sender). They had a red and white label on them which stated that it was being returned because of alcohol. They had written "RTS" in multiple places on the box. I did nothing, the boxes just came back to me. I then covered up the RTS writing, replaced the label and sent them back out using Fedex Home to the same recepient’s home address. They arrived safely 4 days later. No black-list, no random reroute to Utah, no problems (well, other than the fact that 48 bottles had to cross the country 3 times instead of once). So, don’t worry about it, don’t worry about being blacklisted. Drink a beer and wait for the box to show back up. Now, if you’re my buddy who was supposed to receive the packages at his office, HE has something to worry about. His driver has gotten smart to what he’s doing, and is apparently big on Fedex vigilante justice. How do you think he "figured" it was alcohol? Sloshing?
Message Forgetfu 20:12 Wed 6/26/2013 Originally posted by csano How do you think he "figured" it was alcohol? Sloshing? Well, the recepient thinks that fedex is out to get him, so I suspect that he’s just received too many boxes of beer and his driver’s not an idiot. Perhaps a bottle has broken somewhere in the past, or just too much sloshing? I dunno. <grumble>
Message csano 20:15 Wed 6/26/2013 Originally posted by Forgetfu Originally posted by csano How do you think he "figured" it was alcohol? Sloshing? Well, the recepient thinks that fedex is out to get him, so I suspect that he’s just received too many boxes of beer and his driver’s not an idiot. Perhaps a bottle has broken somewhere in the past, or just too much sloshing? I dunno. <grumble> I hope my FedEx guy likes me! ;)
Message Homer321 P beers 5369 º places 54 º 20:24 Wed 6/26/2013 Originally posted by csano I hope my FedEx guy likes me! ;) Mental note to self: Tip FedEx guy around the holiday time...

Message sloth P beers 3480 º places 102 º 01:41 Thu 6/27/2013 They,re watching us.
Message drowland P beers 11069 º places 430 º 04:33 Thu 6/27/2013 Had this happen to me as a sender once... sent jtclockwork a boatload of CCB growlers and one of them leaked like fucken crazy. The box got wet and they just sent it back to me, no breakage. Just sent him back the growlers that were still good and all ended fine.
Message PaulUnwin beers 87 º places 124 º 04:52 Thu 6/27/2013 I haven’t read all the replies, I’m just off to work, but am I right in saying that if you tick the box that says direct signature, you can send alcohol? I have suffered boxes that came back, but someone told me that’s how to get over it, maybe they were wrong?