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Cody - Seattle Plate Check
Sep 3, 2026
⭐️☆☆☆☆
Absolutely useless experience at the FedEx Shipping Center on Alaskan Way.
I arrived with a 160 lb box that I needed to return. The employee, Christina, watched me struggle to unload this enormous box from my car, drag it into the shipping center, and get it up to the counter.
Only then did she tell me they couldn’t accept it because I needed to print the prepaid shipping label myself.
I explained that I already had the prepaid FedEx label from the manufacturer in my email. Surely a FedEx Shipping Center can pull up or reprint a FedEx label using the tracking information, right?
Apparently not.
I was told there was absolutely no way for them to print it there, which was particularly baffling considering I had literally just watched Christina print smaller FedEx labels before my transaction.
So after dragging a 160 lb package into a FedEx Shipping Center, I was left with no option but to drag the damn thing BACK OUT, somehow get it loaded into my car again, and drive it to another shipping location.
The lack of capability was frustrating enough. The customer service made it worse. Christina was dismissive and actually rolled her eyes at me while I was trying to figure out what I was supposed to do.
I wasn’t asking anyone to perform a miracle. I was trying to ship a prepaid FedEx package at FedEx.
If your facility genuinely cannot print a prepaid label from an email or tracking number, fine. But watching a customer wrestle a 160 lb package through the door before mentioning that limitation, then treating them like they’re the inconvenience, is terrible customer service.
I left with the exact same 160 lb box I arrived with, plus the bonus experience of being treated like an idiot for expecting a FedEx Shipping Center to help me ship something through FedEx.
Completely useless.