FedEx Ground® Economy is a contract-only service that helps to consolidate low weight packages and deliver to residences. These packages also consume less time-and are sensitive business-to-consumer packages.
FedEx picks up, sorts, line hauls, and tracks and delivers your packages to the United States Postal Service® (USPS) post office closest to you. The USPS makes final delivery to the residence.
FedEx Ground® Economy services include FedEx Ground® Economy Parcel Select Lightweight, FedEx Ground® Economy Parcel Select, FedEx Ground® Economy Bound Printed Matter, FedEx Ground® Economy Media, and Ground® Economy Returns.
FedEx has expanded FedEx Ground® Economy by leveraging the FedEx Ground® network to provide cost-effective pickup and origin processing services to reach customers with lower volumes (less than 499 packages average daily volume) of residential shipments. This service is available to all FedEx Ground® Economy customers who originate shipments in the 48 contiguous U.S. states. Return Service is available to the 48 contiguous U.S. states and from all fifty U.S. states, U.S. territories, P.O. Boxes, and APO/FPO/DPO locations. The U.S. territories include American Samoa (AS), Micronesia (FM), Guam (GU), Marshall Islands (MH), Northern Mariana Islands (MP), Republic of Palau (PW), and U.S. Virgin Islands (VI). The U.S. territories and Puerto Rico are considered international destinations by FedEx, will be treated as intra-U.S. locations for Ground® Economy Returns shipments.
This chapter assists developers who are integrating the FedEx Ground® Economy service with their business shipping solution using FedEx Ship Manager® Server (FSMS).
Refer FedEx Service Guide on fedex.com for further service details and restrictions related to shipping with FedEx Ground® Economy. To start using FedEx Ground® Economy, contact your FedEx customer service representative or FedEx account executive.