Does FedEx deliver Sunday? Company wants to trim service in some areas

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FedEx's Ground service will stop making Sunday deliveries to about 15% of the US homes it's currently serving, largely in rural areas.

During the pandemic the company had expanded Sunday service to 95% of US homes, a response to"the exponential growth of e-commerce," FedEx said in a statement. But"as economic conditions have shifted," it's scaling the service back to 80% of homes.

FedEx Ground handles the majority of the company's online purchase shipments business, but it's a crowded field with competition from Amazon's own in-house delivery service, the US Postal Service and UPS. Even before Friday's announcement, FedEx Ground had already been trimming some of the lower-priced, less time-sensitive"economy" shipments to homes.

Despite the challenges for that line of business and a drop in the number of shipments at FedEx Ground, the unit's sales were up in the most recent quarter - thanks largely to charging shippers an additional fee for fuel. Most other trucking companies have also introduced fuel surcharges because of record-high diesel costs,

 

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