Hold shipment of pistol ammo at FedEx location?

[Persona non grata 113]

I’ve bought ammo online before, but this shipment is shipping FedEx instead of UPS. FedEx usually gets to my house in the morning or early afternoon, while UPS usually delivers after I get home from work. I believe that I could digitally authorize the release, but needless to say, I don’t want a case of ammo sitting outside all day. Is there any issue with having FedEx hold the package at one of their drop points (such as a Walgreens)? It’s handgun ammo if that makes a difference. 

[MartyZ 692]

They might not hold it at their drop point but they should be able to hold it at one of their customer counters. You might be able to have them deliver to a neighbors house.

[Zeke 5,504]

16 hours ago, mattm754 said:

I’ve bought ammo online before, but this shipment is shipping FedEx instead of UPS. FedEx usually gets to my house in the morning or early afternoon, while UPS usually delivers after I get home from work. I believe that I could digitally authorize the release, but needless to say, I don’t want a case of ammo sitting outside all day. Is there any issue with having FedEx hold the package at one of their drop points (such as a Walgreens)? It’s handgun ammo if that makes a difference. 

It’s just a package. Try

their are laws against stealing packages... jus sayen 

[Bt Doctur 188]

according to Midway, unless it hazardous no signature required for delivery using UPS.

they just dropped 3 bricks of .22`s on my doorstep and left. if it did happen to get stolen I would have to file a report and Midway would investigate the theft before re-shipping the product. I found that to be troubling so I now have signature required even for a cloths order.

Last time I checked, .22 LR is used in pistols.

[WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot 358]

I’ve picked up CMP Garand ammo held for me at FedEx Kinkos but the guy there said it’s against policy and next time they could refuse to hold it. The package had ORM-D ammo stickers on it. YMMV.


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[Persona non grata 113]

Seems that FedEx won’t allow me to have it held anywhere, including a FedEx hub. If it wasn’t scheduled to be delivered on Halloween...simply too much foot traffic for my liking. 

[raz-0 1,259]

Which fedex? 

fedex overnight is awesome, so is two day. 

fedex ground used to be ok, but now there's s chance stuff labeled ground is really....

fedex home, which is formerly RPS, and also is the earthly incarnation of the devil itself. They won't hold packages at a fed ex facility because they do not use fedex facilities. Way back when they'd even consider a package hold, I did one. It was a nightmare, and frankly you do not want anything handled by these people. They are 100% contractors, so if your location is on a shit contractor's route, good luck. None of them will put a package on hold until they hit the max delivery tries because then they don't get paid for it. 

I avoid it like the plague. If I have run into the local driver, and they seem decent, then I just avoid it. Because even the best drivers are saddled with the way the whole thing is run. 

[Persona non grata 113]

Looks to be FedEx home, which sounds like that’s my problem. I didn’t opt for it, it’s whatever Brownells chose for free shipping. Maybe I’ll try to avoid it going forward. 

[reloaderguy 30]

On 10/28/2017 at 1:50 PM, Bt Doctur said:

according to Midway, unless it hazardous no signature required for delivery using UPS.

they just dropped 3 bricks of .22`s on my doorstep and left. if it did happen to get stolen I would have to file a report and Midway would investigate the theft before re-shipping the product. I found that to be troubling so I now have signature required even for a cloths order.

Last time I checked, .22 LR is used in pistols.

But. As a UPS driver told me it's up to the driver whether to require a signature once he sees the ORD sticker.

[Persona non grata 113]

On 11/14/2017 at 4:53 PM, reloaderguy said:

But. As a UPS driver told me it's up to the driver whether to require a signature once he sees the ORD sticker.

It seems that way for every package that I get. Every package I’ve gotten in the past few years has showed signature required when I tracked it with FedEx or UPS, but the drivers almost never ring my doorbell. I believe that the last time they rang my doorbell was a set of tires from TireRack.