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The URL part of this particular drives me insane, and it's not particularly Fedex's fault. But When every online retailer seems determined to keep me in their website (or a branded third party website) when I click a tracking number.

"Track Package" sure, keep me on the website.

But if you present me with a tracking number that you are making a link yourself, just send me to the shipper company. Bonus points when they then make it really hard to find the actual link I want on that random website they send me too. I already bought from you and will soon have your product in my hands, do I really need to be kept on a branded site that offers no extra value?

Emails seem to be the worst for this.

I feel like these companies are setting up people to be phished, when the idea that you can only track Fedex on Fedex.com is no longer true.



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