FedEx To Deliver Packages 7 Days a Week

According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, FedEx will deliver packages seven days a week starting next year, adding an extra operating day to accommodate America's online shopping habits. From the report: The delivery giant also plans to bring to customers' doorsteps many of the packages it currently drops at local post offices. The shift will seek to lower costs by building density along FedEx Ground routes, while also shifting some two million packages daily out of the U.S. Postal Service's network. The changes aim to serve an e-commerce shopping market where consumer habits don't mesh with working schedules, because many deliveries arrive at homes while shoppers are at work. It also adds capacity to FedEx's network by using existing facilities an extra day to handle what the company expects will be a doubling of small package shipments in the U.S. by 2026.

Re: What's the big deal?

[D.McG.]

There have been Blue laws on the books that allowed everyone to go to church on Sunday. Retail wasn't allowed to open until noon. The repeal of those laws has been slow but steady in correlation with a decline in church attendance.

Re:

[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

Good. Those laws, since they existed solely for the benefit of religion, were antiquated and useless.

Lower church attendance leads to a smarter populace with a greater capacity to reason instead of obey.

Re:

[fluffythedestroyer]

Not mine (canada Post), they operate 5 days a week and not on weekends. Around twice per 5 years their union will go in the streets crying and whining like babies because they aren't payed well while 80% of the rest of Quebec don't even have unions or even the smallest of protection and salary benefits. So in other words even if where a developed country here ( I think ???) its not normal unfortunately. Not only canadapost but anyone who has a union and they can't have what they want, they directy go in the

Already happening from Amazon

[SuperKendall]

Part of the FedEx shift here, may be in response to Amazonâ(TM)s Sunday deliveries Iâ(TM)ve seen a few times now - either to win back some delivery business or more likely to meet demand from companies that do not want inferior delivery options to Amazon.

Re:

[EvilSS]

It's funny because Amazon is the one who got USPS to deliver on Sundays [usps.com], then turned around and started their own delivery service right after. I'd much prefer to go back to USPS. or Fedex. Or UPS. or any other than Amazon Logistics.

Re:

[tlhIngan]

Part of the FedEx shift here, may be in response to AmazonÃ(TM)s Sunday deliveries IÃ(TM)ve seen a few times now - either to win back some delivery business or more likely to meet demand from companies that do not want inferior delivery options to Amazon.

No, it's actually to publicize that the service is actually available.

Those who know (and are willing to pay) know you can get UPS or FedEx to delivery anything on any day. We've had packages that basically were hand carried from the source a deli

Re:

[ELCouz]

Can't compete with a heavily subsidized gov-owned corporation (USPS)... US tax payers are already paying for USPS even if you don't used them.

Re:

[DRJlaw]

Can't compete with a heavily subsidized gov-owned corporation (USPS)... US tax payers are already paying for USPS even if you don't used them.

What subsidies? The ones that went away with the 1970 Postal Reorganization Act?

I assume that you're referring to the Shapiro study [sonecon.com], which treats everything that isn't nailed down as monetizable and therefore a subsidy. Monopoly on first class mail? Subsidy. Monopoly on access to mailboxes? Subsidy. Immunity from state and local property taxes (like every other F

Re:

[uncqual]

Immunity from state and local property taxes

There is no question that is a direct subsidy - FedEx et al pay property and business taxes and income taxes whereas USPS does not (of course USPS wouldn't pay income taxes as it isn't making money -- something FedEx can't get away with for too long without going bankrupt).

Re:

[rtb61]

Do not forget, for profit deliveries choose what regions they will deliver too and what they will ignore or charge much more for. You have to subsidise if you want equal access for by far the majority.

Then again if you want locked in delivery services, all to easy. Simply the companies need to advertise delivery boxes, a sheet metal container they can bolt to your home to which they have a key and can delivery right in there, only their packages of course.

Re:

[kingbilly]

This. And FedEx takes it a step further because Ground drivers operate differently than Express. Ground drivers can decide not to deliver, or not pick up, whenever they want (essentially). They can call it quits for the day if they want, leaving your business hanging.


My income comes from managing our shipping (worldwide) over the 10 years. There are pros and cons to each carrier. Don't buy into someone saying they want one carrier to rule them all, because we will all suffer. There is a lot of misinforma

Re:

[account_deleted]

Comment removed based on user account deletion

Re:

[iggymanz]

nonsense, plenty of huge companies are competing just fine and making profit. So Amazon sends 70% their packages by those guys and not the USPS

Work/Life balance?

[rmdingler]

More than half of the 415,000-member UPS workforce is unionized, primarily with the Teamsters. FedEx has 280,000 workers, and only 5,000, all airplane pilots, are unionized.

So yeah, unions suck in some ways and are unnecessary A.F. in today's business climate. Yet. The lack of worker representation is evident in the Sunday plans of the respective two company's employees.

Re:

[starblazer]

Well, considering the opco that's going 7 days is ground which has no union employees at all......only Express has union employees.

Makes sense

[Presence Eternal]

Wait, you mean roads work on Sundays? Huh. I had no idea. Makes sense when I think about it though.

USPS

[The Grim Reefer]

While the USPS doesn't deliver mail on Sunday, they do deliver packages. Or at least Amazon packages. I've received stuff from Amazon that was delivered on Sunday. I've also seen USPS vehicles many times on Sundays. Every time I have, I could see stacks of Amazon boxes through the window. So it may be a special arrangement they have with Amazon.

Re:

[Octorian]

I've also gotten packages originating from foreign postal services, that are locally delivered via the USPS, on days when the regular mail isn't operating. (And even on days when it is, the delivery seems to be handled by a completely different truck at a different time of day.)

Re:

[kingbilly]

Yes, mod this up. The parent had a nice story but only needed to think about literally any other company that is open 7 days a week to realize this doesn't mean every FedEx employee needs to work all 7 days.
The USPS employee who comes by on Sunday for those Amazon packages is never the same person we have during the week. And often, it isn't even the same person from the previous Sunday.

Re:

[The nickname is not]

Great that they are gonna do it. Hopefully, it will be accessible for all the regions because sometimes I experience problems with delivery to my zip code in Oklahoma https://worldpostalcode.com/un... [worldpostalcode.com]. You know, delays, and so on.