Example of Fedex Intl shipping

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Sun Jul 29 22:51:32 2001

That's why the last company I worked for had a single person go ahead of
everything and had a stoage unit setup that he/she would store things until
the setup day - no delivery direct to the convention center at all so no
idiotic charges.

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of John Foust
-> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 5:04 PM
-> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> Subject: Re: Example of Fedex Intl shipping
->
->
-> At 12:15 AM 7/29/01 -0400, Jerome Fine wrote:
-> >First, I was told that FedEx will often delay shipments if they
-> >are found to be arriving too soon (1 day instead of 2 days)
->
-> For a trade show, we'd carefully plan the arrival day for
-> all our packages, so as to avoid extra "drayage" charges from
-> the convention hall's union, who would charge $150 *per day*
-> that anything had to be moved from the dock to your booth.
->
-> Size made no difference. FedEx once delivered a single
-> mailing tube one day early, and the union goons wanted
-> $150 for me to get it out of hock.
->
-> - John
->
Received on Sun Jul 29 2001 - 22:51:32 BST