What the heck is up with FedEx being all weird and stuff?

There may have been a customs issues since it’s an international shipment. Did you call the person to see if it arrived? The “Int’l shipment release” in Memphis might just be a paperwork issue, rather than the package physically being sent back. That’s where the package officially entered the U.S. I don’t really know what the status of Puerto Rico is in terms of international shipments. Anyway, just speculation. Try calling FedEx (you might want to use these phone numbers/methods so maybe you can get through to an actual human). Good luck.

Looks kind of like it got misdelivered, identified, and returned to the hub in Memphis for rerouting, but this is just a guess.

Once my son ordered an item that got delayed. When he traced it he found that it had bounced across the country and back at least seven times , hitting Florida, Tennessee (several times), and, I think Texas before it finally landed here in California. The tracer read like a verbal Pong game. It actually made us laugh hysterically because it seemed like the shipping program was freaking out of its mind trying to get it right and instead overcorrecting.

Sometimes things simply go wrong.

What’s up is FedEx sucks. And it doesn’t matter if it’s being sent 50 miles or 5,000 miles: everything is sent through Memphis.
Also, @Primobabe is 100% correct. Unlike USPS and UPS, FedEx is non-union.

She is right about the NALC health plan too.

Maybe you put the wrong address on it. I use FedEx all of the time with no problems.

@AstroChuck Why is everything sent through Memphis?

@XOIIO Because Memphis is a FedEx Super Hub.

I once received a packet that had been sent from one D.C. address to a nearby address in D.C. The packet had traveled overnight to Memphis, made a couple of stops elsewhere, and then returned to D.C. What an appalling waste of energy resources, and just think about all that unnecessary pollution.