![]() “A Sunday might be as little as 10 to 20% of a normal day’s volume, but we’re still sending trucks out, and they’re still burning fuel,” he said. Fuel that got really expensive, almost overnight. The good news is that FedEx offers delivery on Saturdays and Sundays, with FedEx Ground delivering to nearly 95 of the U.S. He wants FedEx to stop Sunday delivery not just in rural areas, but everywhere. “It’s a dog-free day, not only for us but for everyone dealing with dogs barking in the background.” “Sundays should be given back to all of us,” said Spencer Patton, president of Patton Logistics - one of about 6,000 smaller businesses that actually do much of the delivery for FedEx. Lola, a boxer mix, freaks out at the ever-present sound of delivery trucks, whose drivers aren’t fans of Lola either. You know who would be absolutely fine with no more Sunday delivery? My dog. We use a variety of shipping carriers to make sure we deliver your order as soon as. Under pressure from the contractors who do a lot of FedEx’s delivery, the company announced it will be stopping Sunday deliveries, primarily in rural ZIP codes, starting Aug. Saturday and/or Sunday deliveries may be available for some orders. Well, in an era of high gasoline prices, warp speed may not be economically sustainable. Two-day shipping, next-day shipping, same-day shipping - it was only a matter of time before you yelled, “We’re out of shampoo!” from the shower and seconds later a drone would appear at the door, Pantene in tow. For a while there, it seemed like the warp speed of e-commerce was never going to slow down.
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