#federalExpress

2025-04-16

Race

In my previous post I speculated on which of the two packages I have shipped over the last few days would arrive at its destination first, thus winning the race. Would it be the USPS package full of 35mm film that shipped out on Saturday or would it be the FedEx envelope with my passport renewal application that shipped out last night?

I have the answer.

The film has arrived at The Darkroom. I can expect my scans to be uploaded to my account in 3-7 business days. In other words, an eternity. Disney and New York on film… coming soon.

#35mmFilm #35mmFilmPhotography #federalExpress #fedEx #film #filmPhotography #filmScans #photography #race #shipping #thedarkroomlab #usPostalService #usps #whichPackageWillArriveFirst

2024-08-30

Frankfurt Friday 30th August 2024.

N117FE, Boeing 727-25C, Federal Express, parked on it's gate at Frankfurt Airport, 16th October 1993.

6 photos behind the link.
mancavgeek.co.uk/2024/08/30/fr

#Frankfurt #FRA #EDDF #Boeing #B727 #FederalExpress #FrankfurtFriday
#avgeek #aviation #planespotting #photography

Side view of a purple and white 3 engined jet airliner, with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage.
A thin red stripe running along the fuselage separates the purple top from the white bottom.
White and red "Federal Express" titles are on the forward fuselage, with blue and red "FedEx" titles on the white tail.
The registration "N117FE" is on the centre engine intake in white.
A 4 engined white airliner with the word "Cargo" on the fuselage sits behind the tail of this plane.
Large lighting poles loom over the scene, with grey skies filling the rest of the frame.
2024-08-23

Tuesday afternoon got less productive for me when I had to get in a 20-mile errand through some of Northern Virginia’s less enjoyable traffic. My reason for this drive to a light-industrial stretch of Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria a few blocks from a trash-to-energy plant? A company that exists largely to deliver packages to people’s homes.

FedEx handed off this logistical chore to me after a series of missed connections that I should have seen coming, because I’ve seen it before. And I’ve written about it before–or I think I have, except Google and Bing can’t locate the post I remember doing for the Washington Post that included the phrase “FedEx house arrest.”

Back then and again this week, the problem began with a shipment for which the sender had required a recipient’s signature. In this case, it was a Pixel 6a phone from Google, a free replacement under a warranty-extension program for the Pixel 5a phone that had mysteriously self-bricked earlier this month. I had taken Google up on that offer Tuesday of last week while out of town, thinking that this order wouldn’t get fulfilled until I returned Sunday night.

But contrary to the e-mail from Google estimating a delivery window from Tuesday through Friday of this week, FedEx first showed up Wednesday of last week. With nobody around, the driver left a door tag asking for a signature; the neighbor who had been stopping by to check on our cat then texted a picture of that note, asking what to do.

The tag didn’t specify that my neighbor could have signed it, and meanwhile I thought I could solve the problem in FedEx’s delivery manager by waiving the signature requirement there. But that did nothing, resulting in another missed delivery and another door tag on Thursday. My attempt to set a vacation hold instead of just telling my neighbor to sign the door tag was equally unproductive, leading to yet another missed delivery.

After three “delivery exception” strikes, I was out–except FedEx’s site didn’t say that, instead describing the package as “on the way.” Throughout Monday, it predicted a delivery by 8 p.m. that night. That did not happen. When I got an equally vague delivery forecast Tuesday, I finally picked up the phone to call the company. Only then was I informed that I had to pick up the package at the FedEx shipping center in Alexandria before it closed that evening, lest this package get routed back to Google.

With my replacement phone finally picked up at the price of a reacquaintance with the traffic many people around here deal with every day, I then went all of 20 hours before another FedEx disconnect.

Thursday afternoon, the missed delivery was a new laptop for my wife. I knew it was coming at some point that day, but without an equivalent to Amazon’s delivery-map feature–an upgrade you might have thought FedEx would have made during the pandemic–I didn’t know when I should be near the front door.

And because I have an uncanny knack for being in the basement doing laundry or in the backyard weeding or otherwise not eyeing the front-porch steps when FedEx deliverypeople arrive, I missed that delivery attempt. The door tag is now signed, and I trust that this delivery saga will end Friday. I have less confidence that FedEx will sand down these rough spots in its delivery experience anytime soon.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/08/22/fedexs-delivery-of-delivery-data-could-use-some-work/

#AmazonMapTracking #cx #deliveryException #FederalExpress #FedEx #FedExDeliveryManager #FedExDoorTag #logistics #signatureRequired

A FedEx sign on the side of the company's shipping facility in Alexandria, Va., lit by the late-afternoon sun with a partly-cloudy sky above.
2024-01-02
G-BIFH, Shorts SD3-30-100, Gill Airways, at Manchester Airport, some time between September 1990 and April 1995.

N17025, Boeing 747-238B, at Mancvhestert Airport, some time in the 1990s.

 

4L-85430, Tupolev TU-154B-2, ORBI Georgian Airlines, at Amsterdam Schipol, 27th September 1996.

 

D-ADFD, Fokker F100, Deustche BA, at Dusseldorf Airport, 11th October 1996.

 

G-BTTO, British Aerospace ATP, Eurodirect Airlines, at Woodford Air Show, 1994 or 1995.

 

F-WWAX/N654FE, Airbus A300F4-605R, Federal Express, on static display at Farnborough Air Show, 10th September 1994.

 

F-GCVM, Sud Aviation SE-210 Super Caravelle 12, Air Provence International, at Frankfurt Airport, 21st September 1996.

 

HB-IZK, Saab 2000, CrossAir, in the “Phantom of the Opera” colour scheme, at Geneva Cointrin, 5th October 1996.

 

F-ODVF, Airbus A310-304, Royal Jordanian, at London Heathrow, some time in the 1990s.

 

LX-LGL, Embraer EMB-120ER Brasilia, LuxAir, at Manchester Airport, some time in the 1990s.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2024/01/02/photo-of-the-day-2nd-january-2024/

#a300 #a310 #AdvancedTurboProp #airbus #AirProvence #airshow #ams #amsterdam #atp #avgeek #aviation #b747 #boeing #brasilia #BritishAerospace #Caravelle #cointrin #ContinentalAirlines #crossair #DeustcheBA #dus #dusseldorf #eddf #eddl #egcc #egcd #eglf #egll #eham #emb120 #embraer #eurodirect #f100 #fab #farnborough #FederalExpress #fokker #fra #frankfurt #geneva #GeorgianAirlines #GillAir #gva #heathrow #lhr #london #lsgg #Luxair #man #manchester #ORBI #photography #planespotting #RoyalJordanian #s2000 #saab #schipol #SD330 #SE210 #Shorts #Sud #TU154 #tupolev #woodford

Side view of a very large, white and grey, 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left, with a large grey hangar in the background, hzazy grey sky filling the rest of the frame.Side view of a white, high-winged, twin propellor engined airliner taxiing from right to left and slightly away from the camera, with a white car in the foreground, and large patches of grass in the background.Closeup of the rear fuselage and tail af a white and blue, 3 engined jet airliner, with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, taxiing from left to right, with a red and white striped pole and lots of grass in the background.Close up of the grey and black tail oif a jet airliner, parked facing to the left.
2023-10-10
XX522/06/G-DAWG, Scottish Aviation Bulldog T.1, in RAF colours, at City Airport Manchester/Barton, 3rd June 2023.

A6-PFD, Airbus A300C4-620, Abu Dhabi Amiri Flight, taxiing to Terminal 2 at Manchester Airport, 10th October 1992.

 

N114FE, Boeing 727-24C(F), Federal Express, at Basle-Mulhouse, 10th October 1996.
This is one of the most frustrating airports for spotting – to get a photo of one plane (a Rossiya Il96) parked on the opposite side of the terminal, I would have had to go back to Basle, get a train to the French city of Mulhouse, and then get a bus or train back to the airport!

 

PH-MC_, Boeing 767-31AER, Martinair Holland, at Amsterdam Schipol, either 1992, 1993, or 1996.

 

D-AIBC, Airbus A340-211, Lufthansa, at Dusseldorf Airport, either 1993 or 1996.

 

LZ-BOB, Boeing 737-53A, Balkan Bulgarian Airlines, at Frankfurt Airport, 21st September 1996.

 

G-BTTO, British Aerospace Advanced Turbo Prop (ATP), EuroDirect, taxiing from left to right having just landed after performing a display flight at the Woodford Air Show, some time in the late 1990s.

 

LZ-BTK, Tupolev Tu154B, Balkan Bulgarian Airlines, at Manchester Airport, some time in the 1990s.

 

5N-AUF, Airbus A310-221, Nigeria Airways, parked on it’s stand at Terminal 2 at London Heathrow, as seen through the windows of Burger King in Terminal 3 early one morning, some time in the 1990s.
This was always the best place to start a spotting trip after the long, overnight National Express bus down from Manchester!

 

G-LYON, Douglas DC10-30, JMC Air, at London Gatwick, some time in the late 1990s.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2023/10/10/photo-of-the-day-10th-october-2023/

#a300 #a310 #a340 #AbuDhabiAmiriFlight #AdvancedTurboProp #airbus #ams #amsterdam #atp #b727 #b737 #b767 #bae #BalkanBulgarian #barton #Basle #boeing #BritishAerospace #BSL #Bulldog #CityAirport #dc10 #douglas #dus #dusseldorf #eddf #eddl #egcb #egcc #egcd #egkk #egll #eham #eurodirect #FederalExpress #fra #frankfurt #gatwick #heathrow #JMCAir #l13 #LFSB #lgw #lhr #london #lufthansa #man #manchester #MartinairHolland #Mulhouse #NigeriaAirways #raf #RoyalAirForce #schipol #ScottishAviation #tu154 #tupolev #woodford

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with a red stripe running along the body, covering the passenger cabin windows. There are black "United Arab Emirates" titles on the upper rear fuselage, repeated in an Arabic script on the upper mid fuselage over the wings. Ther is a reversed UAE flag on the tail.In the foreground, the top of the terminal building is visible, badly out of focus, while in the background, yellow metal frames are in front of large, light blue fuel tanks, with some black hangars further back., all under a hazy grey sky.Side view of a 3 engined jet cargo liner with it's engines mounted on the rear fuselage, parked facing to the left. The plane is mostly white, with large blue and red "FedEx" titles on the forward fuselage, while the rear fuselage and tail are a dark blue, with white and red "FedEx" titles. The registration "N114FE" is on the centre engine intake in black. In the background, a terminal building stretches across the middle of the frame, under a grey sky.Side view of a single engined light aircraft parked on grass facing to the right. The plane is mostly white, with a red belly, with a blue, white, and red roundel on the rear fuselage, and blue, white, and red fin flash on the tail. the top of the nose cone is painted black. The serial "XX522" is under the horizontal stabiliser on the rear fuselage. The foreground is filled with grass, while in the background, some people are standing on the far side of the plane, their legsvisible under the fuselage. Further back, trees and bushes mark the airfields perimeter, with rolling hills in the far distance, under a hazy grey sky.Close up of the rear fuselage and tail of a jet airliner parked facing to the left. The plane is mostly white, with a silver belly, and a red stripe running along the fuselage. There is a stylised letter "M" on the tail, looking a bit like a 3-fingered left fist with the thumb extended downwards. In the background, several airport vehicles are clustered under the tail, while a larger blue airliner is visible behind it, under a dismal grey sky.
2023-07-22

Note to #Fedex: it is beyond absurd that you won't allow *punctuation* in your delivery instructions, calling the humble period a "special character". Did any human being think about this for 1 second?

#FederalExpress

2023-06-09

Freighter Friday -
Federal Express A300-600F Postcard N651FE
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#Aviation #FedEx #FederalExpress #airbus #Avgeek #Airplane #Postcard #Freighter #Cargo #freighterfriday #a300

A purple and white airplane taxis by 
2023-01-14

Federal Express Airbus A300-600F Postcard N651FE. One of two delivered in this livery.
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#FederalExpress #FedEx #Aviation #Airplane #Plane #Purple #Airport #avgeek #postcard

FedEx, airplane, purple, taxiway
2023-01-12

N306FE, the one which was hijacked in flight 705, and heroically saved by the crew, became the last DC-10 to retire on 12/31. What a fitting tribute to a great aircraft that has served FedEx so well over the years. Final Flight YYZ-MEM. - old postcard.
#fedex #aviation #frieghter #avgeek #airplane #planes #FederalExpress #dc10 #postcard

2020-03-11

Photo of the Day 2020-03-11.
N725FD, Airbus A300B4-622R(F), Federal Express, taking off from Runway 05L at Manchester Airport, 18th July 2014.
#avgeek #planespotting #potd #manchester #man #egcc #l13 #airbus #a300 #federalExpress #fedex #photo

Fedex A300 at Manchester Airport, 2014.
2020-02-23

Bonus Photo of the Day 2020-02-23.
N311FE, Douglas DC10-30(F), Federal Express, landing at London Heathrow, some time in the 1990s.
#avgeek #planespotting #potd #london #heathrow #lhr #egll #queensBuilding #glasshouse #douglas #dc10 #federalExpress #fedex

Federal Express DC10 at Heathrow Airport, 1990s.
2019-10-26

Bonus Photo of the Day 2019-10-26.
N117FE, Boeing 727-25C, Federal Express, at Frankfurt Airport, 16th October 1993.
#avgeek #planespotting #potd #frankfurt #fra #eddf #boeing #b737 #federalExpress

Federal Express B727 at Frankfurt Airport, 1993.
2019-10-10

On This Day 10th October 1996.
N114FE, Boeing 727-24C, Federal Express, at EuroAirport Basle-Mulhouse, 10th October 1996.
#avgeek #planespotting #otd #europort #basle #mulhouse #bsl #lsnm #boeing #b727 #federalExpress

Federal Express B727 at Europort Basle-Mulhouse, 1996.

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