FedEx getting itself in a fix over Huawei

As the world's largest express transportation company, FedEx claims that it holds itself to a very high standard of service. But its track record over the past month in relation to serving Chinese telecom giant Huawei would suggest not.

Last month, because of what it claimed was "inadvertent misrouting", FedEx delivered Huawei parcels to the wrong address, amid escalating trade frictions between China and the United States, sparking a regulatory investigation by the Chinese government "on suspicion of undermining the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese clients".

FedEx has again found itself caught in the vortex of controversy over the weekend - this time when it returned a US-bound package containing a Huawei smartphone, a P30 Pro, to the shipper at PCMag's United Kingdom office, who called it "totally ridiculous".