The company I work for uses UPS for most of our outbound shipping and we receive shipments from FedEx daily . UPS ground the least expensive , slowest mode from or to anywhere in Texas generally gets it there the next day . We have a Dallas office and routinely sendreceive stuff tofrom them and generally it ' s always nextday . Tracking on both UPS and FedEx is accurate about 90 % of the time . If it says it ' ll arrive on a particular date , it does , with very few exceptions . The suckiest shipping is USPS . Tracking is a joke . It ' s fine for sending letters , or if you spend a lot extra to do priority , but I wouldn ' t use USPS for packages at all , ever . There ' s always a bit of lag around Christmas , and occasional hiccups like weather or strikes or mechanical problems . but generally I ' m satisfied with UPS and FedEx , and I ' m not a super easytoplease guy . When I pay for a service , I expect to get what I pay for . With UPS and FedEx , I feel like they ' re doing it right MOST of the time . I ' ve been working where I do for a little over 8 years and I do all the receiving and a fair amount of shipping .