With the lovely import tariffs brought to you by the US executive administration, it’s hard not to immediately blame the government when seeing wildly unreasonable shipping costs. One 81-year-old Wisconsin senior ordered two bolts to fix his daughter’s lawnmower, but could never have expected a 15-page invoice from FedEx, indicating a Past Due balance of a whopping $327.82. The initial price for the bolts was $9.91, so how in the world was the price over thirty times higher?
“I can’t imagine what in the hell is going on with this,” remarked the elderly man’s son, frustrated by such an outrageous invoice. Apparently, two of the fifteen pages are just the back-and-forth emails between a FedEx Logistics representative and the online vendor. The son’s guess is that it’s the online vendor who owes FedEx $327.82, but somehow, his 81-year-old dad was billed for it instead. A few in the comment section of the son’s complaint post on r/FedEx blamed the current administration’s executive decisions.
“Trump’s tariffs,” says one commenter, plainly. “It’s tariffs,” chimes in another. “You know, the ones that supposedly the countries were supposed to pay and not the Americans…” Another user shared their story of how they also got hit with a hefty import tax that wasn’t mentioned for a sim racing wheel they ordered. ” Dipsh*ts tarriffs are screwing people over left and right,” they growled. However, many other Redditors are more than certain that the bill is nothing more than a scam.
“You should crumple up and disregard any bills from FedEx like this. They WILL NOT pursue,” suggests a user. One person surmises that the scammer sends out invoices like this to multiple FedEx customers, and considering the age of OP’s father, someone is bound to be gullible enough to pay up. While a few are advising that the son or dad call the number or email address on the invoice, I agree with the handful that claims even those could be scam-related means of contact. Instead, it’d be best to contact FedEx directly, not whatever was printed on a shady 15-page invoice for two bolts.
