Well, FedEx is uniquely (and poorly) situated in this delivery on demand economy. You may be getting orders broken up and delivered by different carriers because they are coming from different fulfilment centers, or for weight cost/benefit they are broken up into various size boxes. Then a computer determines the most efficient way to deliver each box.
FedEx is poorly situated because they don’t have a strong relationship with 3rd party fulfillment centers or with Amazon; while UPS has a much bigger fleet and the USPS has the biggest fleet in the country - the only service that picks up and delivers to every address in the country 6 days a week (and in many areas now, 7 days a week mostly for Amazon). FedEx used to get to cherry pick the most premium, important packages. The volume of money is in the parcels and FedEx doesn’t have the infrastructure to do the pickups or do the rounds for drop-off like UPS/USPS does, so they don’t get the business.
I sometimes order packages to my office, cause it is just easier
Just got a fedex package today. the box was beaten into submission and I thought there might be smaller parts missing from the large holes.
anyway checking tracking they supposedly tried to deliver it to the office in a business park at 7:17 on Saturday, and then tried again at 9 something on Sunday.
Today just threw it out of the elevator on my floor cause it was so trashed, did not try to knock or anything they just threw it and ran away.
not like we don’t have an account with them and they did not know we would not ever be open saturday or sunday.
I sometimes dislike fedex.
Great explanation.