Mail about to get a lot slower.
Dunno if this is just local to the Baton Rouge area, but when I was doing a lot of shipping and receiving it was UPS--->USPS-------------------------------------->FedEx
Fed ex was ALWAYS late, they ignored delivery instructions, and some of their drivers were sheetty people
I feel like I can add to this to clarify a bit from my experience too.
FedEx Express is still awesome.
FedEx Ground is basically like spinning a wheel to determine when, or sometimes if, you will receive a package. Whenever I see a package is shipped FedEx Ground, I know that I'm in for a wild ride.
For example, I had a decently large package shipped to me from an ebay seller a few weeks ago. It was shipped FedEx Ground. :mad: So, it says that it's going to be here on Monday. I was outside doing yard work on Monday and the FedEx truck pulls up. I put down my equipment and wait outside the truck (just a few steps away) for a good 3-4 minutes. The door finally opens and the driver can't find my package (twss). I tell her what the box looks like and what's on the outside (I've received similar packages, so I knew what to expect). Still can't find it. I tell her what it is, and she said "oh, yeah, we had to send that back to the retailer (it wasn't a retailer) because the box was all messed up and we couldn't accept it. I remember seeing that one. Ok, fine.
I go back to the tracking site and it now says TBD delivery date. I check the first thing the next morning, and it's magically back on the truck out for delivery on Tuesday. Tuesday comes and goes, and no delivery. The truck didn't even run through the neighborhood. I check Tuesday night, again with the TBD delivery date. First thing Wednesday morning, I check the site again, and it's back on the truck for delivery again. It was delivered Wednesday and not a scratch on the box, and there's no way it went all the way back to somewhere up north to get another one from a seller that didn't have many to begin with.
Yeah, it was all bullshirt.