My experiences iwth Fedex and UPS in Alaska have been unversally bad. They always take several days longer than they say, and sometimes they manage to lose the package.

UPS is doing far better than they used to, though. Fifteen years ago, they used to take a package for shipment to Alaska, sit on it for a month or two, then return it to the sender and say that they didn't go to Alaska (which was mostly true, then). Of course, you'd been billed and been wrangling with the vendor for weeks by the time they got it back.

The situation is better today, but Fedex and UPS are so high priced and so unreliable that I don't do business with any vendor who won't ship U.S.P.S.

Nels