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Originally Posted by RickFLM4
I’ve seen packages flown from Ft. Lauderdale (about 50 miles away) to Memphis and then back to West Palm by FedEx. There is also no (or very limited) interaction between FedEx overnight and FedEx ground. They seem like completely different companies. Their logistics often seem idiotic to me, but what do I know...  |
Express and Ground are indeed different companies. They pretty much operate entirely separately from each other. For logistics on the scale that companies like FedEx deal with, there will be some seemingly questionable routes. The goals are cost cutting (reducing or killing low volume routes) and overall efficiency (hubs). It might seem strange to see a package travel "away" from the destination, but that just means it's faster than waiting for trailers to fill up or cheaper than having a dedicated route that sees low volume. The path that your singular package takes is a drop in the ocean of millions of packages that they are moving, and therefore is basically irrelevant.