MEMPHIS, Tenn.–FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) will increase shipping rates for FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery by an average of 4.9% effective January 6, 2014. FedEx SmartPost rates also will change. Details of surcharge changes and new rates for FedEx Ground will be available at fedex.com/us/2014rates on December 6, 2013.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 21, 2013—FedEx Express, an operating company of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX), is introducing FedEx One Rate which gives U.S. customers a simple, predictable, flat rate shipping option for their express packages. FedEx One Rate shipping is backed by the reliability, world-class tracking, time-definite delivery and high levels of customer service of the […]
Many postal pundits often say USPS should operate like FedEx. But if that were truly the case USPS should raise it rates as often as FedEx. Here is an excerpt of FedEx’s announcement yesterday” MEMPHIS, Tenn., September 18, 2013, FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) 2014 Rate Increases FedEx Express will increase shipping rates by an average […]
Cards service is no longer available on iPhone and iPad A FAQ web page published Tuesday confirmed that Apple has quietly discontinued the “Cards” app and companion service for creating letterpress cards and having them delivered for one low price.
USPS Press Release Air Cargo Network Contract Award to FedEx WASHINGTON – On April 23, 2013, the United States Postal Service awarded Federal Express Corporation (FedEx) a seven-year Air Cargo Network contract to provide domestic air transportation service for Priority and Express Mail. The current contract with FedEx ends in September 2013, and the new […]
Homeowner catches UPS driver stealing iPad Mini from doorstep hours after it is delivered by FedEx driver. The UPS driver was fired and charged with theft but only after homeowner posted video on YouTube. “A Texas man found himself the victim of an extraordinary theft when a UPS delivery man stole the iPad Mini delivered […]
Green Monday Volume Expected to Help Set Busiest-Day Record for FedEx MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 22, 2012 – FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) expects to have its busiest day in history on Monday, Dec. 10 when it moves a projected 19 million shipments through its global ground, express and freight networks. The 10 percent, year-over-year, busiest day […]
Recently, Congressman Dennis Ross wrote on his Facebook page that 80-82% of USPS operating costs is labor. Normally, estimating figures in a public forum is no problem. But when the Chairman of a House Subcommittee covering the U.S. Postal Service starts doling out numbers they should be accurate and not pulled out of thin air. […]
In an editorial by the Concord (New Hampshire) Monitor they wrote: The postal service has since the 1980s operated as an “independent establishment of the executive branch” and, as such, is expected to be self-supporting. For the most part, it is. But in exchange for its monopoly on first and third-class mail, it is charged […]
FedEx transports Express, Priority and First Class Mail, and earned postal revenues of $1.373 billion (corrected) in fiscal 2010. While at the top of the list, FedEx’s postal revenues declined from a high point of over $1.6 billion. Another postal competitor, United Parcel Service (UPS) , is the Postal Service’s 12th (corrected) largest postal supplier, […]