Fedex owns UPS

True to my beliefs Fedex once again cleans house on UPS. This latest case just gets my going though. We all know that the iPod is sweet but has one extremely huge flaw. If you have used it for two days it looks as if you owned it for a year. The metal backing is cool and all but scratches all to hell (mine came with a nice scratch on it already). Since black is obviously cooler then white they thought they sould make the black scratch easier and better then the white. So I ordered a case for it last friday from the invisible shield people. Order was processed around three p.m. Unfortunately the only choice I had was UPS. Well here are the shipping details. First we see that they picked it up around 6 hours after confirming a delivery was going to be made. So it is in Salt Lake City and is coming my way...or so we think. From their reports to me it never actually left SLC. Then it never was recieved in Maumee but it left there. Who knows. The next question is why did it take 19 hours to leave Illinois? Seriously it was there for 19 hours! So the package gets to me today. It takes them 8 days. On Monday of this week I bought a USB 2.0 and Firewire PCI card from Newegg. I choose to ship with Fedex even though it cost me 4 more dollars. Here is the Fedex summary. As we can see all arivals and departures are accounted for, one even twice! Here is the next thing. It got here in TWO days! It got here in 6 less days from a city further away (L.A.). So while I have been waiting and waiting for the iPod case I got a new PCI card which is nice. I can see why UPS is cheaper but I can see why I hate to ship with them unless I have to. Fedex delivers on time and quickly. Now to hit you with the kicker. My iPod was order about an hour before my case and was also shipped last friday. But hmmm when do you think it got here from L.A.?? Monday! that is right it took three days AND they dilvered on MLK Day. Lastly Fedex has better logos and trucks. All around victory for Fedex on this one.