Advice on POL shipments

[rthomas98]

I noticed a lot of posts in regards to not knowing when factory five is shipping your items on your POL list. Just wanted to pass a tip to help a little bit. Set up an account for your house address with Fed Ex.

https://www.fedex.com/fedextracking/

It is totally free and any time any company puts a shipment that is to your address fedex will notify you. Almost all the POL stuff comes Fed Ex. Once a month when they send a round out I knew because I would get the message stating "label created in Wareham MA". I knew that was the parts. Also I would have the tracking number before anyone could e-mail it to me (which was rarely). Gave me a little control in fairly uncontrolled supply chain situation.

Just figured I would pass along for anyone wanting to use the information and may not have been aware.

R.J.

[JeffP]

UPS and USPS (Informed Delivery) also offer similar services. If aren't aware of Informed deliver from USPS its really nice - get an email every morning around 7am with a picture of all your mail coming that day and any packages in the pipeline. Not that FFR uses either of these, but all 3 are great for package awareness.

I'll also add if you're shipping anything and have a paypal account - goto paypal.shipstation.com and you'll pay about 1/3 the price for UPS/Fedex than if you went directly to their site.

[Alec]

This is great advice. I just created my fedex account (and then you have to add Fedex Delivery Manager service which is also free), and within 10min learned by email that a Factory Five package is scheduled for delivery to my home tomorrow. IRS BOLTS!! Yay!

Thanks R.J.!

@ JeffP: "Package awareness" is a great phrase with several possible meanings :o