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start your business today with legalzoom. >>> two of this country's biggest shipping companies are spendingoday scrambling to deliver packages that were supposed to arrive on christmas. fedex and u.p.s. faced a tough backlash online from angry customers yesterday. both companies are apologizing to those customers blaming the delays on weeks of bad weather and also on higher demand from online sales. meanwhile, amazon which uses u.p.s. is also apologizing to customers. and has announced that it's going to be refunding shipping charges and also offering a gift card to compensate. and donna, you know, these companies are saying it was partially the weather, but they're also saying it was partially the sheer number of packages that were shipped this year. you would think though that u.p.s. and fedex would have seen this coming, it being the holiday season and all. how did they not? how are they caught so flat footed? >> you know, clearly, they did not anticipate the kind of demand that they encountered. they do plan for demand. u.p.s. delivers 16 million packages a day and they said that they e