Legally you arent allowed to send an envolope ground. It is a deal/law the carriers have had with the post office since they started. That is why when a customer chooses ground they can't pick ltr as weight it always has to be 1lb.
How's North Carolina TEST STATION doing??
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Just telling it like it is
That could also be costly and time consuming.
What makes you think I’d hire them? We tend to deliver more than envelopes here.
But probably necessary.
The next time they “fine tune” the terms and conditions, the language will change ever so slightly with little comment and no fanfare. What I do know is how contracts and amendments work. If you don’t have a legal degree, much of it doesn’t say what you think it says but much of it says exactly what it says and means whatever the company (and it’s lawyers) says it says.
Email is cheap.
OK, but referring to the letter size Ground envelopes that are the same size, as far as I know, as the Express letter size. Don't know the current price but Ground could get them delivered overnight within a specific region for $5 a few years back.
MAKAVELI
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With the exception of few young couriers with little seniority, I doubt you'll be getting many Express drivers applying at ground.
But you seem to think they can make these kinds of changes without telling customers first with no legal exposure. They have on a number of occasions had couriers deliver letters to shippers, and it was a lot of letters per courier, detailing changes in service as well as price. For something this big I would be confident betting on it that they will do it this time too.
That’s ok. I’ve been over staffed for months.
They had email back when they did mass shipments too.
Will the expense of notifying shippers far outweigh the savings? No. I thought not. In essence you’re conjuring up tiny little issues that amount to nothing in regards to a shift this big. I mean you’re talking international shipments? How far down the line are we talking? How much other volume will be bled off Express before that’s even a concern?
And you seem to think you know how Express operates. This is a huge change in how they deliver certain packages and as I've already stated before when big changes in service occurs FedEx sends out a mass shipment to regular shippers detailing the change. Besides covering themselves legally why wouldn't they inform their customers of the change? And FedEx has a long list of things that have bitten them legally so with something this big it's highly unlikely that they'll just start doing it and too bad for the customer if they aren't aware.
This might eat up 3 days worth of savings that they get by moving freight by Ground then!
Think they’ll go through with it? How much do you think it would cost? Every shipper or only the affected international shippers? Is this really going to be an issue for a $40 billion dollar company?
On a side note, I read that Ground now processes about 8.5 million pieces per day. Looking at another 2 million with Smartpost integration. You know what another million Express packages does? Offsets the cheap cost of the Smartpost and then some. Density is good.
Why wouldn’t they? Because they don’t have to. It’s already stated in the terms of service.
Plus they’ve already announced it and Wall Street loved it.
Vague language in the TOS isn't informing the customers of a big change. Why would they do it? Because they've always done it before. This isn't your nickel-and-dime Ground outfit.
Until you have to deal with late airplanes they can really throw a monkey wrench into your planned day.
Google it. The entire FedEx Corporation in 2019 averaged 6.2 million packages a day and they were a $40 Billion company a good while back. $69 Billion+ in 2019. What else are you wrong about?
No. A late airplane throws a monkey wrench into Express operations. There’s going to be cut times like everything else. Ground contracts here can hold us til 9:45. Late planes that can’t be processed by then I assume would have to revert back to Express. Or they’ll just use a weather excuse like they’ve been doing for 10 years anyway.
