Printer-Friendly Zone Skipping

FedEx SmartPost takes your package as close as possible to your customer before giving it to USPS for residential delivery. By skipping intermediate postal processing centers, we reduce transit time, minimize handling, and maximize postal discounts. Throughout the delivery process, we utilize our technology to provide shipment visibility of your packages while they are en route to their destinations.

Under our zone-skipping program, we deliver packages to Bulk Mail Centers (BMC), Sectional Center Facilities (SCF), and Destination Delivery Units (DDUs) based on your needs. For fastest delivery and highest discounts, we sort packages by 5-digit ZIP codes and ship directly to DDUs (local post offices).

Packages shipped to BMCs are delivered in-home by the USPS in 3 days; 90 percent of the packages shipped to SCFs are delivered by the USPS in just two days. The majority of packages arriving at DDUs by 7 a.m. are usually delivered in-home by the USPS that same day, with the remainder delivered the following day.