I ordered a college sweatshirt on November 30th as a gift for my son. The company decided to use a FedEx service for ground freight that contracts with the Post Office. I knew it was being shipped "ground" but thought three weeks is plenty of time for a small package. It still hasn't arrived. I already read the riot act to the company I ordered it from, and hopefully they will do the same to FedEx for creating this irresponsible and unreliable freight class.
There are bright spots yet in the economy and these are among them. We have growing pains. Most items are nice to get on time but it’s not as though you will die if you don’t.
You can just jokingly tell your son that Santa was a bit slow this year. He wasn’t able to cope immediately with new technology and the boom in business. Give him a year to learn.
Wow.
I ordered 2 last minute things last weekend and they still got here yesterday. Not critical things, just ‘I bet they’d like that’ things. They were both USPS though.
Fedex will probably invoke force majeure due to weather. The past 3 or 4 days have been epic in that area of the south.