Track4Trace Explains How to Track a Package After It Changes Carriers: Understanding Multi-Carrier Shipment Tracking A FedEx tracking number that suddenly stops updating isn't necessarily a FedEx problem. For a specific, common class of budget shipping services, that silence is the sound of your package being handed to an entirely different company mid-journey — on purpose, by design, as part of how the service was built to work in the first place. Understanding which services do this, why, and what tracking actually looks like during the handoff turns a confusing blackout into a predictable, expected step. Some budget shipping services are built around a mid-journey handoff to a second carrier — and the tracking blackout that comes with it is part of the design, not a glitch. Not Every "Changed Carrier" Is the Same Situation It's worth separating two different things that both get called "the carrier changed." One is a deliberate, built-in hybrid...