UPS & Fedex ground shipping

[Muse]

Do they really do this on the ground? A package is coming (by Fedex) to me that was in WV on 7/22 at 9AM and in CA on 7/24 at 2AM. They flew this, right?

 

[olds]

No. Packages are not airplanes.

 

[Sukhoi]

It went through the Panama Canal via ship.

 

[dougp]

Trains and 18 wheelers are used for ground also.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Never underestimate the power of truckers' speed pills.

 

[Wyndru]

 

[Regs]

Fed Ex is usually all the time by plane, unless of course you live right next door to the place shipping it. Fed Ex Ground obviously ground only. Fed Ex Ground is its own seperate entity remember .

UPS ground is ground. All others will use a plane.

 

[Muse]

No. Packages are not airplanes.

What a joker!

 

[D1gger]

I have a UPS ground shipment that left Ontario on the 25th, and it is not expected to be delivered until August 2nd here in Victoria, BC. It is a three day holiday weekend or it would likely be delivered on the 1st. Definitely it is travelling on the ground for it to take this long.

 

[Muse]

It went through the Panama Canal via ship.

And they stopped to fish for tuna, check.

 

[Muse]

Fed Ex is usually all the time by plane, unless of course you live right next door to the place shipping it. Fed Ex Ground obviously ground only. Fed Ex Ground is its own seperate entity remember .

UPS ground is ground. All others will use a plane.

As stated in my OP, the package evidently traveled 3000 miles in 18 hours. That's averaging 166 mph. It must have been by jet.

They call it "ground" shipping, but it doesn't mean it traveled exclusively by ground, obviously.

 

[Wyndru]

Ground simply means lowest priority, I think whether it actually is flown or by road/rail is based on the weight/size of the item and the availability of transport at the time it is sent.

I'm sure a lot of ground shipments go out on planes.

 

[waffleironhead]

If it was sent via fedex ground, then it stays in the ground system. If it was fedex express, then they flew it.

 

[waffleironhead]

Ground simply means lowest priority, I think whether it actually is flown or by road/rail is based on the weight/size of the item and the availability of transport at the time it is sent.

I'm sure a lot of ground shipments go out on planes.

Eh, no. Fedex ground and fedex express are two completely separate entities. They have their own terminals and networks. Ground stays on the ground.

 

[Muse]

Ground simply means lowest priority, I think whether it actually is flown or by road/rail is based on the weight/size of the item and the availability of transport at the time it is sent.

I'm sure a lot of ground shipments go out on planes.

Exactly, this was my point.

 

[Muse]

Eh, no. Fedex ground and fedex express are two completely separate entities. They have their own terminals and networks. Ground stays on the ground.

I believe you are right about everything but the last point. Ground doesn't necessarily stay on the ground. How else could the "Ground" package have been scanned in WV and then 17 hours later in CA?

 

[96Firebird]

17 hours? Perhaps I don't know how to tell time, but I believe from 9AM on 7/22 to 2AM on 7/24 is 41 hours...

 

[waffleironhead]

I believe you are right about everything but the last point. Ground doesn't necessarily stay on the ground. How else could the "Ground" package have been scanned in WV and then 17 hours later in CA?

you fail at math?

7/22 9am +15 hours
7/23 +24 hours
7/24 2am +2 hours

41 hours is what I get.

 

[Muse]

17 hours? Perhaps I don't know how to tell time, but I believe from 9AM on 7/22 to 2AM on 7/24 is 41 hours...

I believe you're right. My bad, and I have a degree in math. :whiste: Even so, 3000/41 = 73 mph, still kind of too fast for ground, IMO especially when you consider it couldn't have averaged 73 mph.

 

[lord_emperor]

Look at it this way, they have some deal with the airlines to move stuff around, if there's room / weight on the plane they don't just put your stuff in an otherways empty truck just to spite you for picking ground service.