I was surprised when my package (shipped cross country) took 4 days just to leave Ohio (each day was a different city). It took a week to get my package this summer.
I saw a guy on Twitter posting the delivery history of his FedEx package not too long ago. I think he was in Pittsburgh. The package had come from California or something, and had made its way through several rust belt cities including somewhere that was like 20 minutes from him before suddenly appearing over in Chicago. It was crazy.
For me, personally, FedEx just never does it correctly. They either deliver late or they don’t deliver and the driver marks the package as “couldn’t gain access to the building” which is complete BS.
One time, my mother shipped us something on Friday for Saturday delivery. It was scheduled to arrive Saturday morning, but then it didn’t arrive and around 5:30PM we got that “couldn’t gain access to building” message. So I called FedEx, and they promised that it would be delivered the next business day, which was TUESDAY because Monday was a holiday (which is why she’d shipped it for Saturday delivery in the first place).
I asked them if they’d guarantee me Tuesday AM delivery, and they refused because my mom “didn’t pay for priority delivery.” They actually said that.