Why would FedEx transfer delivery to USPS?

[blaze]

I live in the Denver metro area. FedEx trucks go down my street 4 or 5 times a day. I often receive deliveries from my regular driver at 7am.

Anyone have any insight?

[RandySF]

1. UPS does it too

[underpants]

15. All the time. USPS goes to everyplace everyday

Brown and FedEx don't and can't. They also contract space on each other's airplanes.

[msongs]

2. u are hijacked for high prices then they pay USPS way less and keep the difference? nt

[eShirl]

3. it's cheaper for them to pay usps for final delivery

somehow

[Codeine]

4. USPS is already going to everybody's house

so if the package isn’t time-sensitive handing it off for local delivery is very efficient and benefits both parties.

[cwydro]

5. All the time where I live, but I'm in a rural area.

It works well actually.

[blaze]

7. I guess I assumed it happened JUST in the rural areas

It makes sense to me for UPS, FedEx, et al to foist off the cost of the final leg to USPS. Just doesn't make sense to me when I have FedEx trucks going down my street numerous times a day. I'm not even on a secondary street where they might travel to get to another street.

[Wellstone ruled]

14. Post Office gets paid to deliver

what is called last Mile Packages and Envelopes. This is not a free Be for Fed Ex or UPS. Rural Mail Routes stay profitable for this service.

[LiberalFighter]

26. USPS delivers every day almost to everyone.

FedEx and UPS don't. So it saves FedEx and UPS to hand off even if they pay USPS to do final delivery. It probably helps keeps cost down for consumers too.

[hlthe2b]

6. First, it may be he one thing saving the USPS, which likewise keeps prices down, but more important,

USPS covers every single blessed rural and urban route in the nation. Letting our postal carriers make the final delivery for a large proportion of UPS and FedX deliveries makes shipping far more cost effective AND, which may be a incredibly urgent aspect, SAVES USPS.

Direct deliveries from FedX and UPS are more expensive for the shipper, but, if you use Amazon Prime, for instance, they still continue to do so for a few deliveries, depending on origin and destination AND time promised for delivery.

[obamanut2012]

8. Because the USPS is better equipped to handle certain deliveries

And volume. They have been doing this with Fed Ex and UPS for years. Amazon and Zuilly are companies I order stuff from who do this.

[NutmegYankee]

9. It's cheaper for the door deliveries.

Both FedEx and UPS can use their national transport networks to rapidly move the package to the destination area and then use the USPS to do the actual door delivery.

[Sunlei]

10. not sure why but my amazon prime bags of dog food are delivered by post office on Sundays.

Other days too when I check 'tracking'.

Many heavy boxes are shipped to Houston city by fedex and some packages my mail carrier has them in his truck along with regular mail.

[Blue_true]

25. I have seen the post office do Sunday delivery before.

You may be a valuable customer to Amazon.

[TheBlackAdder]

11. Final Segment Delivery-The Most Expensive part. Privatize Profits & Socialize Expenses!

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Final Segment Delivery is the most expensive part of package delivery because it require trucks and drivers.

Since the USPS already goes to most homes, FedEx and UPS have a sweetheart deal that fucks over the USPS.


I spoke to my Postmaster, and he says that USPS makes ONE PENNY profit delivering FedEX & UPS packages.


So, FedEx and UPS can lobby to weaken the USPS, making their overnight delivery more expensive by cutting down on the amount of regional delivery centers, so FedEx and UPS can monopolize that segment of delivery. Then, with the cheaper good, they charge the same, and offload the final segment delivery to the USPS to do.

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[A HERETIC I AM]

12. It's a reciprocal agreement

The US Postal Service does not operate aircraft but UPS and FedEx obviously do.

They put mail in their planes, the Post Office handles SOME street deliveries

I’m in Memphis right now, having just dropped a trailer of mail at the FedEx hub and sitting at the mail distribution center waiting on a trailer to take back home

[blaze]

18. Thanks. This answer helps.

So, my package came in from Missouri (via FedEx) in a load that was already destined for USPS.

I assumed that this practice was primarily for the more rural routes. Hadn't thought about the trade off for flights.

[Historic NY]

13. I had the reverse..

USPS sent FedEX to deliver 2 bumpers. Its wasn't weight it was size. I think now in my area USPS is getting newer vehicles as the old GM based ones fall apart, then again hundreds of them were rebuilt.

[dalton99a]

16. Also, FedEx and UPS can't deliver to P.O. boxes

[meadowlark5]

17. We live outside of the Denver metro area in kind of a rural area

And both Fedex and UPS deliver out here. But a lot of times, especially UPS, transfer to USPS for final delivery. I think it's whatever shipping contract is set up with the shipper.

To be honest, when Christmas comes around and I'm ordering gifts - I prefer UPS transfer to USPS for final delivery. I can't tell you how many times UPS just won't deliver if there is a stitch of snow out here. I will get notification that weather prevents them from delivering, even though it's out on the truck for delivery. One year, after 3 or 4 days of driving out here but for some reason the weather prevented them from completing the delivery (roads clear but snow on the ground) I told them to hold them and I'd come pick them up.

And this isn't a one off - it's every year that I have trouble getting deliveries on time with UPS. But I know my mail carrier, come hell or high water, is at my mailbox every day.

[blaze]

19. Yeah, I expect UPS et al to hand off the rural deliveries

(and USPS is my preference as well)

Was just surprised to see it happen here in town.

[meadowlark5]

20. I think it really depends on what kind of shipping contract the shipper has

It's most likely more cost effective for the shipper to let USPS handle the final leg of delivery.

[KWR65]

21. It is a service called Sure Post.

UPS or FedEx gets the package to your area post office then the post office delivers it.

[librechik]

22. Fedex won't deliver to PO Boxes. USPS goes everywhere. Just guessing.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

23. Does trUmp know about this?

[fescuerescue]

24. Because both make money by partnering in some areas.

Do you know who the biggest customer of AT&T is? Verizon, Sprint, etc.

Sometimes is better to share a little profit with your competitor, than do carry the whole burden and lose money.

[dlk]

27. USPS Already Has the Infrastructure in Place to Deliver Everywhere

[aikoaiko]

28. USPS could use the revenue.

[demosincebirth]

29. Postal employees are union - Fed ex is not,