So far, so good: Last-minute holiday deliveries of e-commerce orders appear to be reaching more consumers on time than was the case last year, according to data today from shipping software vendor ShipMatrix Inc.

As of today, at least 99% of express deliveries from UPS and FedEx were arriving on time, says ShipMatrix President Satish Jindel. That’s up from about 97% on Monday and about 90% for the same period last year.

Around this time in 2013, consumers and retailers were fretting about delayed or missed holiday e-commerce deliveries. For instance, United Parcel Service of America Inc. admitted it wasn’t prepared for the large increase in online orders placed during the 2013 holiday shopping season. This lack of preparation hurt its bottom line during the fourth quarter of 2013, as the company had to deploy last-minute resources to keep up with demand and issue refunds when it failed to do so. The company also put part of the blame for last year’s problems on the bitter cold and significant snow.

Until today, however, weather has played little role in hampering deliveries, Jindel says. And the carriers this year prepared for a smoother holiday shipping season. UPS, for example, said in June it would invest at least $175 million toward its holiday operations; total holiday preparations have cost $500 million, a UPS spokeswoman says today, though some of that technology spending will also boost the carrier’s general e-commerce-related efforts. UPS also hired 95,000 holiday workers, up 11% over last year, the UPS spokeswoman says. Rival FedEx hired some 50,000 holiday employees, a spokesman says.

UPS this year expects to “deliver 585 million packages throughout December around the world, and that’s an 11% increase over 2013,” the spokeswoman says, adding that Monday, Dec. 22 has proven to be UPS’ busiest shipping day, with some 34 million packages delivered—that compares with about 31 million packages for the busiest day in 2013, Dec. 23. “This year, we think we surpassed 31 million packages on a single day at least six times,” she says.

Neither UPS nor the U.S. Postal Service would talk about reports that carriers imposed shipping caps on major retailers on order to have a better handle on deliveries. A FedEx spokesman would say only that “some caps on volume” were imposed this holiday season.