I suppose I may need to be a bit careful what I say. In yesterday’s post, I was venting on our recent experience with Fedex and their poor performance, relative to UPS, in our area. And guess what I found in my statcounter log? Numerous hits from various fedex.com offices and sites. I even found some from UPS’ corporate site.
Perhaps Tink was right about advertising. I have no idea how folks made it this way. It’s not like my posts are top listings in any of the browser tools. We’re talking about 20 pages in, I still don’t see my post show up. Oh well. They’re getting here some how.
Frankly, I think it’s neat. I just hope that it somehow turns into a little improvement. When I wrote about the problem I had with Frontier, my preferred airline, I did receive a call from them. They asked for my feedback and said they were going to pass it on to the management at the San Jose airport. Hmm… I wonder if I should now fly Southwest 
They may have my mug up on a wanted poster. “If you see this man, lose his luggage!” Gee I hope not.
Anyway, thought some of you might be interested.
And Gordan… if you happen to read this… Go USPS! 
I hate to go in to the post office, but ya’ll are making it easier for me to avoid it. I just wish I could use you to ship my 70+ lb items.
19/01/2007 at 11:57 pm Permalink
Careful shmareful, lol. Good. GOOD that they saw how dissatisfied you were. And BTW their website sucks too. When we want to know the LATEST *any* freaking FedEx location is in Co, don’t like ‘hide’ info! My god…..’user friendly’ people. USER FRIENDLY. WTF?!
I always wondered about that phone call from Frontier…the fact that they just took your complaint and didn’t like OFFER you anything for your dissatisfaction does make me wonder if they instead just black listed you. Remind me to not ever travel with YOU!
Kidding sweetie, lol.
20/01/2007 at 8:05 am Permalink
Really! I love it when you sort for drop-off locations by latest drop-off, but leave off the latest one, which is 2 hours later than the one they give you. My goodness that was a lot of driving around
21/01/2007 at 1:57 pm Permalink
I think they must use webcrawlers. I wrote a post bashing Miscrosoft’s crap software a while ago and got about 6 hits from MS Corporate headquarters.
22/01/2007 at 7:29 am Permalink
Willowtree: I think you’re probably right. It sure was effective in getting to my site. But it also seemed to pick up on it in my title as opposed to the body of my post. This one, for example, didn’t trigger any hits.
Thanks for coming by. I like your site, BTW.
22/01/2007 at 10:06 am Permalink
IF I read this…? C’mon, man!!
Honestly, I spend most of my time being embarrassed about who I work for. After seven years, all I can say is that it is perfectly correct for people to see the Post Office as the ultimate in overgrown beuracracy (sp?). I read a funny quote from economist Moises Silva, that goes something like this: “It is the hope of socialists to turn the entire nation into the same model of efficiency that is seen in the post office.” Hmm. I guess I better watch my own statcounter now.
23/01/2007 at 10:27 pm Permalink
Now that they found you, let them have it.
But I am a bit suspicious here. The UPS brown fonts all over this blog.