[immtbiker]

I've had horror stories with all of the carriers.

USPS is better for me, because they try to deliver once, leave a note, and then it stays at my local post office until I go there to pick it up (usually the same evening). It doesn't keep going back and forth on the truck. The only bad thing with them is the inability to do any real time tracking.

I used to get parts from my company sent FedEx 10 a.m. to be able to fix the company's machines and instruments at our accounts in the field. We couldn't afford to wait around all day to get the customer up and running, so we paid through the nose.
Countless times I would be at the account, checking the tracking number on the web, seeing it say "Customer Not Available" or "Business Closed" (we're talking huge banking and financial institutions with dedicated docks and shipping/receiving workers). It would go back to the hub and wouldn't be delivered until the next day.
My friend who was a driver for them, told me that they, like everyone else were rated on their performance, in this case "on-time" performance, and if they couldn't make it by 10 a.m. they would pull a CYA and lie, at the customer's expense. This is what happens when companies run lean, and put impossible expectations on their employees.

Creative writing becomes actively deployed!

Frustrating...but a reality.