News / FedEx offers overnight delivery, but do their retail customers want it?

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FedEx is enabling online merchants to promise their late-night customers delivery of their purchase on the following day.

FedEx Extra Hours, the integrator’s latest offering, pledges next-day delivery in local markets for items ordered before midnight, with pick-ups until 2 am. To other destinations in the ...

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  • John

    February 06, 2019 at 3:40 pm

    Free shipping only exists in marketing heads, in reality it someone’s cost.

    Interesting offer by FedEx, but will many retailers like to keep their stores/dc be operational late at night to enable overnight delivery?

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