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A small nugget of what is sure to be many changes in the coming weeks
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<blockquote data-quote="broorb10" data-source="post: 983012" data-attributes="member: 41963"><p>I always thought that was to get people to pay more to ship something by express just for the convenience of using a drop box.</p><p>Sort of like the USPS 13oz rule (except I think we all know who's behind that work of art), if you want the convenience of putting that 14oz padded envelope into a mailbox or hand it to a driver, you're going to have to go priority mail w/electronic label and pay twice as much as first class or parcel post.</p><p></p><p>If a ground package ends up in a drop box, it's probably going to get to the right place only a day later. It's not like it's guaranteed. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> But that really wouldn't matter because Fedex ground (formerly Fedex 2 day if everything goes as planned) is going to be a hell of a lot cheaper than UPS 3-day select , so the shipper is going to be comparing a 2 day product that is cheaper to a 3 day product that costs more. Which would you choose? </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The problem with this idea is that the customer then gets mad that their package is lost and vows never to use Fedex again and tells everyone they know that fedex loses packages, if enough of that happens then volume drops. When volume drops, uncle Fred resorts to measures that nobody working for Fedex is going to like.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="broorb10, post: 983012, member: 41963"] I always thought that was to get people to pay more to ship something by express just for the convenience of using a drop box. Sort of like the USPS 13oz rule (except I think we all know who's behind that work of art), if you want the convenience of putting that 14oz padded envelope into a mailbox or hand it to a driver, you're going to have to go priority mail w/electronic label and pay twice as much as first class or parcel post. If a ground package ends up in a drop box, it's probably going to get to the right place only a day later. It's not like it's guaranteed. But that really wouldn't matter because Fedex ground (formerly Fedex 2 day if everything goes as planned) is going to be a hell of a lot cheaper than UPS 3-day select , so the shipper is going to be comparing a 2 day product that is cheaper to a 3 day product that costs more. Which would you choose? The problem with this idea is that the customer then gets mad that their package is lost and vows never to use Fedex again and tells everyone they know that fedex loses packages, if enough of that happens then volume drops. When volume drops, uncle Fred resorts to measures that nobody working for Fedex is going to like. [/QUOTE]
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