You’ve ordered a book or a card deck or a television or a washing machine.
You’re impatient.
You fish through your email until you find the tracking number.
You go to FedEx.com. You type in the tracking number, being careful not to reverse or drop any digits. At one point, you type a four instead of a six.
You’re annoyed. You backspace. You erase the four. You type the six. You click “Track.”
The results appear: big blue text on a pure white page.
No date or time of departure. No list of cities. No comforting message about packages being “out for delivery.”
The status page says:
When God Wills It.
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