iPad 2 shipped via FedEx - why is "hold at FedEx location" not available?

[gnasher729]

I've tried choosing the "Hold at FedEx Location" option, but it says that it's "not available for this shipment". Anyone know why? The FedEx website isn't exactly helpful about this particular issue.

iPads have legs and walk away when they are supposed to stay at a FedEx warehouse. Apple and FedEx probably both know that.

 

[Medic311]

Fed ex hold usually with the shipper notifying them to hold for pick up, once I managed to do that with my seller, yet entering Fed Ex facility to pick up is liked entering super secret site, you have to be buzzed in and cameras are everywhere.

not at all. the 2 local FedEx hubs have Customer Entrances that are not secretive at all. they are like FedEx-Kinkos almost

 

[charlituna]

Why not have it shipped to work?

Not everyone's work allows that.

As for FedEx and their rules, it makes sense when you think about the work flow. It comes off the plane or the big truck at a center that is tasked with sorting everything into the delivery trucks. And likely based on bar codes that were put on it at the pickup and aren't linked to any kind of central system that would alert them to a change. It just batch reads all the codes and one way uploads them to show they hit the hub. It might only be when it comes back on the truck and is updated to show the failed delivery that its at a location that would see a 'hold for pickup' alert.

Companies like FedEx often still have old as hell systems so this kind of thing isn't a shock.

That whole thing is a major reason why I try to use pick up in store as much as I can. Apple and otherwise

 

[smsummerv]

This is definitely an inconvenience that could be altered, but with the fraud and theft going on these days it is definitely worth it. It protects people from having their shipments fraudulently requested for pickup at a fedex location. Imagine, for a moment, that you have something special coming and someone you've told that said package is coming fedex... that person you told sets up a hold at location and, instead of them bringing it directly to your specified address where you or someone you trust may be im/patiently waiting for it, he/she nonchalantly arrives at the fedex office and makes off with your goodies... all the while, you're waiting for something that isn't really coming anymore ;(

 

[charlituna]

This is definitely an inconvenience that could be altered, but with the fraud and theft going on these days it is definitely worth it. It protects people from having their shipments fraudulently requested for pickup at a fedex location. Imagine, for a moment, that you have something special coming and someone you've told that said package is coming fedex... that person you told sets up a hold at location and, instead of them bringing it directly to your specified address where you or someone you trust may be im/patiently waiting for it, he/she nonchalantly arrives at the fedex office and makes off with your goodies... all the while, you're waiting for something that isn't really coming anymore ;(

and yet delivering at home isn't a guarantee either. for reasons not worth going into I had to order my iphone from my carrier and have it delivered. I'm currently in a work at home gig so not a huge deal. But as it happens when the Fed Ex truck pulled up I wasn't in my apartment. I was checking my mail. I saw the fed ex guy walk into the lobby as I was leaving and was like 'hey i think you are looking for me'. He didn't ask to see an id, ask my name or anything. I could have been lying. heck i could have not even been a resident there for all he knew.

 

[BanubaCow]

This is definitely an inconvenience that could be altered, but with the fraud and theft going on these days it is definitely worth it. It protects people from having their shipments fraudulently requested for pickup at a fedex location.

The problem with this logic -- and my issue at the moment is with FedEx, not you -- is this: what's safer, leaving a package sitting outside your house, or keeping it at the FedEx location and requiring an ID to pick it up? It makes complete sense for shippers to be able to prevent recipients from changing delivery to a different address -- that's ripe for theft -- but makes no sense that they can prevent recipients from requesting a hold at a FedEx facility.

 

[Andeddu]

The problem with this logic -- and my issue at the moment is with FedEx, not you -- is this: what's safer, leaving a package sitting outside your house, or keeping it at the FedEx location and requiring an ID to pick it up? It makes complete sense for shippers to be able to prevent recipients from changing delivery to a different address -- that's ripe for theft -- but makes no sense that they can prevent recipients from requesting a hold at a FedEx facility.

You are responding to a post that is over 5 years old. The poster is over it.

 

[quietstormSD]

Why not have it shipped to work?

Yeah but all of us working from home due to the office don't have this option.