I'm aware of Fedex SOP. I lived in America the majority of my life, and in my experience Fedex was much better, and my preferred shipping method over UPS.
I currently live in Australia, and there is no Fedex here. Fedex hands off their packages to the local delivery service (DHL in most cases). Unfortunately, I live a good 20 minute drive outside of town, so the package gets dropped at the post office. Since the postal service, for whatever reason, won't leave packages they just leave a postal slip for me to bring in to the post office to pick things up.
Fedex tracking still works, and in the last few Sideshow orders I've placed (Guardian Pred, T-1000 and Shadow Pred) they've been delivered days before the projected delivery dates. This last one has been an anomaly though. Either way, it's finally here, even though I will bet tomorrow another "In transit in Alexandria" update will show up on the tracking info.