My experience is that UPS works a lot better in rural areas. When I lived in a small town off the freeway but otherwise in the middle of nowhere, UPS had a very

My experience is that UPS works a lot better in rural areas. When I lived in a small town off the freeway but otherwise in the middle of nowhere, UPS had a very small service center in town (open an hour a day because it was staffed by the driver) and kept 2-day deliveries on schedule. When the whole town was snowed in, they couldn't get the trucks out, but still showed up at the service center so you could pick things up. FedEx didn't have a service center within an hour, always missed their delivery estimates, and a couple of times declared addresses undeliverable for no clear reason. When the town was snowed in, they just lost a package forever.