China is investigating FedEx after it diverted packages to the United States

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This keeps getting re-posted. It's likely thousands of packages are sent to the wrong place every day, Hauwei is complaining to the chinese government about (2) misrouted boxes. This is a non story.

I agree that it's likely a non-story, but the number of packages isn't the relevant part. Every delivery service misroutes, damages or loses packages, that's normal. If it's done on purpose, it's something very different.

I doubt that they'd openly show the tracking to the customer, though. If US intelligence wanted to check the contents, they'd likely just do it somewhere in FedEx's local facility.

Yes. The tracking number showed the package was in the US. That's why this is a non-story. FedEx is also a US based private company. Not all shipping pairs are point to point, it would totally make sense for rare routes to exchange mail at a US hub.

I'm not sure why this story is getting traction in major publications, the premise is rediculous. It's like shipping through Royal mail and complaining your package to Asia stopped in the UK

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