It depends on how rural you are. Most locations near a hub deliver by 10:30am, but farther out places can be noon or 3:30pm. You can find out from Fedex, or it will show up under your tracking information. I recommend taking a half-day off work, if you can, on a day you plan to receive a shipment, or have someone else at your place to sign for it and bring it inside. You could even try to coordinate to receive more than one animal the same day, if a seller is will to hold on for a week or so to ship (usually not a problem).