Fed Ex delivery issues

So I was given a tracking number with expected delivery in Friday (yesterday). However, I got an email at the end of the day from Fed Ex that said:

Delivery exception
Local delivery restriction, delivery not attempted

Good grief, what does that mean? They scheduled it again for today.

A breakdown in the truck or the road?

I got that same this this past winter when it was -20 out. Basically means something local to your area is going on that prevented it from being delivered. Could be anything from weather to an accident to 3 delivery people calling off sick on the same day.

In my area Fed Ex is using contract delivery people (kinda like Uber delivery). This winter they A) claimed the package was delayed, then B) said it was lost, then C) finally admitted it was "damaged in shipment.". Luckily Amazon sent a replacement, but the above process of coming to an honest assessment tool a week and a half.

It took the delivery contractor another two weeks to return the damaged item to Amazon.

In my area USPS is awesome. FedEx and UPS is consistently awful and, given the option, will always opt for USPS.

I quit using UPS about two years ago when they took a week to deliver an overnight package. FedEx isn't perfect, but they're much better than UPS. For anything going ground, though, you might as well use USPS... they're a lot cheaper and Priority Mail is 1-3 days, so it's just as fast as the expensive guys.

There could be unexpected circumstances

Really, I think that it all depends on where you live and the driver. My FeEx guy is always on point, as is my UPS guy. I've been on a single handed attempt to keep them in a job. Never hickup in over 30 years and 3 different addresses. My current UPS and FedEx driver know me on sight out in town, on a weekend!

I've had so much trouble in my zip code with USPS marking packages as 'delivered' and then the packages showing up days or a week later that we actually reported it to the postmaster general and got a congressional investigation started on it.....which resulted in several fired postal employees. Haven't had 'much' trouble since then.....other than them simply not showing up for several days sometimes.......anywhere on my street. Or the substitute postal driver questioning everyone with packages "What do you need with all this stuff?", shaking packages and searching on her personal phone the shipping addresses on commercial packages to see what might be in them.......... Total hash.

I WILLINGLY pay more to avoid the USPS.