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socalrob
05-08-2006, 11:44 PM
My wife & business partner has been pretty busy lately with a charity kids horse show, & I was looking at a Fed-Ex bill for our company. Our normal FedEX monthly is about $6/$800. This bill was for $1,700 (for about 45 days), so I went on line and looked at it line item by line item. They had 5 or 6 huge overcharges, they were charging me 50 lbs when I was only sending 1 lb letter paks. Like $160 instead of $30.

Anyway, I bring this up because I always thought FedEx was an excellent corp. I am just amazed at this seemingly random overcharging, & was wondering if anyone else is finding this. We normally drop our FedEx off at the local distribution center as we are normally making it last minute, & often fill out the preprinted tickets by hand to save time. We were always leaving it to FedEx to weight the package & fill in the weight.

After about an hour on the phone they did reduce the bill by $515, which was what it looked to me was the overcharge. Thats a big amount if they are making it off everyone. Its hard to believe a corp could be cheating like that, not sure what the incentive would be.

Deano
05-09-2006, 09:14 AM
That's interesting. Our office racked up over $78,000 in FedEx charges last year. I am sure that no one is auditing our charges to ensure appropriate billing, especially if the only discrepancy is the actual weight versus weight charged. Hell, even a pound or two per package would be a nice chunk of change. Not sure that it would be worth it in the long run, though. Maybe local/regional managers receive incentives based upon total shipping fees?