If you are like me you sometimes end up in situations where you must have things shipped to you when you are on the road.
I am posting this to warn others against shipping to FexEx Kinkos stores as I recently made that mistake and now have 5 orders in transit that FedEx Kinkos is going to refuse. (The store manager was not helpful at all)
This is going to cost me $70 or so in additonal shipping charges but the real catch might be waiting for the return to be credited to my close to maxed out credit card. So in effect I could be waiting a month or so to get the much needed equipment thanks to FedEx Kinkos.
The problem is caused by FexEx Kinkos having a policy that everything shipped to them must be shipped "Express Fed Ex" AND FedEx does not educate anyone to this requirement. The shippers do not know (BPL is one of the orders that is going to be returned to the shipper) and strangest of all the FedEx truck drivers do not seem to know either as they accept these shipments without complaint.
Doing some investigation today I found out that UPS stores will accept a shipment from any carrier and hold it for $5. (google UPS stores and call ahead of time for any caveats) the other option that suprised me was that both REI and Patagonia told me that shipping to a PO box was no problem. (used to be no one would ship to a PO box)
BTW will BPL ship to a PO box?
Hope you have better luck getting you gear delivered than I have.
Joe
