Don't you hate it when you are suppose to get a nice package of live rock and it turns out to be a disaster? I ordered some cheap rock (I think my first mistake) I figure some nice large pieces of Haitian live rock. I'm quite fond of the flatter plate pieces. Ordered some off Ebay for 140 shipped from Florida. It was shipped Fed-Ex ground. I thought "no problem its just two days in transit that's normal for sending live rock."
Well Two days pass after it is shipped. I get up at 3pm(I work nights I'm not a bum.) My girlfriend tells me that the box is sitting on the side of my driveway. I go out there and its sitting on the side of the driveway OPEN!!!!! Well I was quite bothered by this and there was a note written in sharpy "We don't del. this stuff. Won't happen next time" The box isn't the sweetest smelling thing at this point so I check the tracking number. It says that it was delivered about 1:30 and was left at the door. I'm just thinking heck the driveway is about 20 from from the door. I'm not happy about this fact either. This may sound like nitpicking but if it was left at the door it would have been at least in the shade.
So I immediately sent an email to the shipper and explaining the gist of the situation and get a reply that "Oh the rock is fine" Well ain't that dandy. Oh I forgot that I ordered Uncured live rock so maybe I would get a cool hitchhiker like a mantis or something. I figured I could have a small tank just for something cool like that. So this half damp half dry uncured live rock I put it to curing didn't scrub it down yet in case that Fed Ex needs to take it back or something.
I call and everything is all nice and crap from Fed Ex. The first people I talk to help me out and help me start the claim rolling(Well that's what it seemed like) Took the time and effort to fill out the paperwork and gather the few documents that I had. Sent it to them and waited to hear back from them. I call about it because I have a cardboard box that is wreaking in the back room because they said to hold onto it for the claim.
Well Fast forward about two weeks to today and now I find out really it does no good for the recipient to file the claim that Fed Ex ground only pays back the shipper(No one mentions this before) They now want to to a damage inspection so I would need to put the rock back into the box with the newspaper and busted bag and give it to the driver tomorrow.
Now I am thinking WTF!!!!! No I'm not even sure that they will even approve the claim and I'm suppose to just take the rock back out of water and let it sit dry for the next two days and I get it back. God I am starting to hate Fed Ex. So I did the only thing I could think of. Stopped wasting my time told them to cancel the claim and I'm going to just scrub the rock down today. Atleast my skimmer isn't overflowing the cup like it did twice the first day that I had the rock in it. Errr..... actually the first 4 hours.
Okay now my rant is over.
Well Two days pass after it is shipped. I get up at 3pm(I work nights I'm not a bum.) My girlfriend tells me that the box is sitting on the side of my driveway. I go out there and its sitting on the side of the driveway OPEN!!!!! Well I was quite bothered by this and there was a note written in sharpy "We don't del. this stuff. Won't happen next time" The box isn't the sweetest smelling thing at this point so I check the tracking number. It says that it was delivered about 1:30 and was left at the door. I'm just thinking heck the driveway is about 20 from from the door. I'm not happy about this fact either. This may sound like nitpicking but if it was left at the door it would have been at least in the shade.
So I immediately sent an email to the shipper and explaining the gist of the situation and get a reply that "Oh the rock is fine" Well ain't that dandy. Oh I forgot that I ordered Uncured live rock so maybe I would get a cool hitchhiker like a mantis or something. I figured I could have a small tank just for something cool like that. So this half damp half dry uncured live rock I put it to curing didn't scrub it down yet in case that Fed Ex needs to take it back or something.
I call and everything is all nice and crap from Fed Ex. The first people I talk to help me out and help me start the claim rolling(Well that's what it seemed like) Took the time and effort to fill out the paperwork and gather the few documents that I had. Sent it to them and waited to hear back from them. I call about it because I have a cardboard box that is wreaking in the back room because they said to hold onto it for the claim.
Well Fast forward about two weeks to today and now I find out really it does no good for the recipient to file the claim that Fed Ex ground only pays back the shipper(No one mentions this before) They now want to to a damage inspection so I would need to put the rock back into the box with the newspaper and busted bag and give it to the driver tomorrow.
Now I am thinking WTF!!!!! No I'm not even sure that they will even approve the claim and I'm suppose to just take the rock back out of water and let it sit dry for the next two days and I get it back. God I am starting to hate Fed Ex. So I did the only thing I could think of. Stopped wasting my time told them to cancel the claim and I'm going to just scrub the rock down today. Atleast my skimmer isn't overflowing the cup like it did twice the first day that I had the rock in it. Errr..... actually the first 4 hours.
Okay now my rant is over.