To illustrate, the published Residential Surcharge for Home Delivery shipments (as of Sept. residential surcharge, delivery area surcharge). Both use the same rate chart (weight & zone matrix) to determine the shipping cost, and for the most part, the accessorial charges are identical…except for the surcharges uniquely associated with a residential delivery (e.g. ![]() FedEx Ground, on the other hand, is the business unit intended for commercial deliveries while also servicing residential addresses for packages tendered to it instead of Home Delivery. I’ll elaborate in a moment, but first I need to address the elephant in the room – When I separately referenced “residential FedEx Ground” and “FedEx Home Delivery”, a percentage of you thought, “Wait, there’s a difference?”įedEx Home Delivery, as the name implies, is the ground business unit dedicated to residential deliveries. But there’s a commonly unrecognized economic advantage. Being the weekend, more addressees will be home from work which presumably prevents problems posed by perpetually pesky porch pirates (I’m saying this 3 times fast as I’m writing this). When discussing the merits of FedEx’s Home Delivery service versus residential delivery via FedEx Ground, Saturday delivery is oft mentioned – and for good reason.
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