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<blockquote data-quote="quadro" data-source="post: 751614" data-attributes="member: 12850"><p>I can only speak for myself but I can't prove a negative so there's not much I can say other than "mixing Ground and Express is not widespread". Provide some examples and I'll see if I can check them out and verify your claim.</p><p></p><p>As for the stations accepting Ground, it's just a drop point for customer convenience. Under normal circumstances, Express drivers never touch the Ground packages and Ground comes to the Express station to pick it up. Obviously an Express employee (the CSA) is scanning the package but that's about it. Is that enough co-mingling of Express and Ground to say that Express is just like UPS? I guess that's a matter for the courts as our opinions will certainly differ. Currently Ground packages are not accepted at drop boxes (yes I realize that customers routinely put them in but the boxes do say "not for Ground shipments"). Also, Ground packages cannot be held for pickup at Express locations although I heard a rumor that might change.</p><p></p><p>The Ground and Express network is different and separate. Does a Ground package make its way on to a plane? Possibly. Same with an Express on to a Ground truck but it's not by design. At least not on a widespread scale. I can see moving Ground packages to Hawaii on Express aircraft as that's probably the best and most economical alternative for FedEx. Not much point paying another airline to carry it. Not sure if it could go by ship. Maybe it does. But that's a specific situation and doesn't make it a widespread practice if that even happens. I don't know for sure that Ground does go on Express planes to Hawaii.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="quadro, post: 751614, member: 12850"] I can only speak for myself but I can't prove a negative so there's not much I can say other than "mixing Ground and Express is not widespread". Provide some examples and I'll see if I can check them out and verify your claim. As for the stations accepting Ground, it's just a drop point for customer convenience. Under normal circumstances, Express drivers never touch the Ground packages and Ground comes to the Express station to pick it up. Obviously an Express employee (the CSA) is scanning the package but that's about it. Is that enough co-mingling of Express and Ground to say that Express is just like UPS? I guess that's a matter for the courts as our opinions will certainly differ. Currently Ground packages are not accepted at drop boxes (yes I realize that customers routinely put them in but the boxes do say "not for Ground shipments"). Also, Ground packages cannot be held for pickup at Express locations although I heard a rumor that might change. The Ground and Express network is different and separate. Does a Ground package make its way on to a plane? Possibly. Same with an Express on to a Ground truck but it's not by design. At least not on a widespread scale. I can see moving Ground packages to Hawaii on Express aircraft as that's probably the best and most economical alternative for FedEx. Not much point paying another airline to carry it. Not sure if it could go by ship. Maybe it does. But that's a specific situation and doesn't make it a widespread practice if that even happens. I don't know for sure that Ground does go on Express planes to Hawaii. [/QUOTE]
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