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Aramex slowdown

Marzouq posted the other day about how slow Aramex has been lately. Well I wanted to share my experience with USWS which for some reason I thought would also be slow. On Friday morning my package arrived in my US mailbox. Late Friday night I get an SMS telling me my package shipped. Today morning I arrived to find my package on my desk. Turned out it was delivered to my office yesterday after I left work. It took 3 days from the US to Kuwait. Thats fast.

My item was a Western Digital 500GB hard drive. Its my first USB 2.0 drive (other then my passport drive). All my main external drives are firewire but since I ran out of firewire ports and the USB 2.0 version is much cheaper I decided to get it. The drive cost me $170 from Amazon and Marzouq has a review on it. The drive arrived just in time because I only had 4GB of space left. Now the total of my hard drives add up to 1.7TB.

19 replies on “Aramex slowdown”

Aramex shipped my packages on the 30th, until today I have recieved nothing, theri service has been going downhill furthermore their excuses are getting lamer, besides the fog, rain and technical difficultes, now they are blaming it on emeirates, its time for a change, i am considering seriously moving to U Shop we Ship if they are any better.

I was about to ship my goodies from amazon to Aramex.. when i checked your blog.. so i directly loged in to USWS and registred a new account.. i will be sending my stuff tonight from amazon thru USWS.. if it takes more then 3 days after they receive my goodies.. try to hide mark.. cause i’ll be coming after you.. lol ;).. lets wait and see..

steve_leb,
it usually takes 3 days AFTER they ship it from the mailbox.
Normal procedure is to ship in a 1-week interval, so don’t expect the item to ship the moment it hits the mailbox (you have the option – but you have to pay extra).

i have this one for more than 2 months , didn’t use it yet..i have external 100GB and its FULL , so i guess am gona use it in the next couple of weeks

but if am not wrong, i had it for $220 or something like that. Good deal Mark

SKREW USWS.. i swear i aint minuplating or blufing bs here is my experience with’em
i placed 3 orders from diff places..
http://www.officeplayground.com
http://www.amazon.com
http://www.target.com

ok?
all on the 30th of december..

first 1 from amazon, has arrived 1 week later, took USWS over 10 days to deliver it to me ..
i called asking regarding my shipments, o they keep telling me oh we’ll call u back.
.. ok i used my resources to contact USWS, he refered me to USWS opertional mangers.. here it the dialouge:

Hello Fadia;
i’m inquiring regarding my shipments, first one from amazon, last destination was dubai 1 week ago, why i still didnt reicieve it?
Fadia; Oh dear you have to pay inorder to recieve your item
Me: but this is not mentioned on the site o your customer support keeps telling me they cant locate it ..
Fadia; ok you want me to add this info on the site? ooh np will do!!
me: ok my shipment from officeplayground was rejected!i called USPS and they claimed that no one recieved it!
Fadia; ooh yes dear they tried delievering it on saturday which was holiday, we cant force our staff to come on weekends!!
me: fadia this is not mentioned on the site, o this is mail box, aramex will never give such excuse!
fadia: ok u want me to put it on the site? ok i will..
** i received my item 2 weeks later***
me: ok what about my 3rd? from target, why it is not listed on the site?
fadia: oh dear we have technical probs with site, wait few days and it will be listed,
… so i called 3 days later and she claimed that their office has declined my items becoz it containts dangerous items !!
i sent them the e-invoice of the item which was magnetic toy ( magnetix )
ooooooh bla bla . last week i receievd an email telling me that they r holding the item ( in USWS ) till they recieve letter from target stating this toy is not dangerous on the passengers !!
so i sent an email asking for a refund due to the delay and error from their end + they dont have magnetic toys listed as restricted items on their website, and of course they refuse to pay me back the money i waisted to buy the toys + shipping ..
u know what’s so ironic? the 2nd shipment contained magnetic toys also..

**refrences email regarding my experince is available upon your request ;p

plz can any 1 tell how to shop and recive a package in kuwait after buying from sites like (ebay)and(amazon) and how much it will cost it will help alot coz i am a gadjet lover and it costs alot for filling my needs here i am planing to buy a ipod 80gb and the price of it is about 130kd in kuwait and about 90 kd in usa 300$

Al-Busairi
man you are scaring me.. i just registered yesterday.. lets wait and see.. I have just placed the order an hour ago.. i will update you guys when i receive my items..

Hey dudes, I got the 320 gb external hard drive from clicknbuy here in kuwait. I costs 57 kd which is about the same price as amazon, i think….. Anyways, it runs smoothly and works great!

I have been trying from yesterday to track my package but every time i enter the tracking number (that they have sent me by email) in the website i get this “No Data Found For this Track Number”..

P.S. i have called them yestarday and told them about my problem.. the girl said she will call me back.. YES SHE NEVER DID.. only in kuwait.. no one care about the business… they know what ever they do we have to come back.. we have no other option..

OK Received.. They just called me 2 seconds ago.. And the guy is coming on his way to deliver it to my office.. So although tracking number was not working.. But who gives a fuck.. I still got my shipment in 3 days here in my office in K8 3 days after they received the goodies in NY from Amazon.. NOW THATS FUCKIN FAST..

Thanks a million mark..

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