Sending gifts? Know what happens to your packages

A Day in the Life of a Package

What does it feel like to be a package traveling across the U.S.? Our test parcel logged 12 trips from New York City to Santa Monica, Calif., to Austin, Texas. This coast-to-coast journey was a good example of both quick service and rough handling, with four acceleration spikes over our designated 6-g threshold. Here, we’ve correlated the time code from our sensor with FedEx’s tracking info.

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