by midweek. that same spokesperson said the vast majority of the 750 million packages that ship via ups between thanks giving and christmas will be delivered on time. ups did try to smooth out the volume of orders, but i did so by adding new surcharges to packages delivered during the busiest week. some retailers responded by offering either slower shipping times or suggesting competitors such as fedex. ship matrix is a software provider that analyzes shipping data, said last week more than 89% of parcels shipped through ups were delivered on time, by that is still less than fedex. fedex is beating ups 99.4% of fedex packages arriving on the day they were scheduled to be there. i was going to say if you have a very special presents the need to be there before christmas, start thinking now. back to you.