In a move aimed at garnering more of our outbound shipping traffic, FedEx has extended lower pricing to us for the balance of 2025 and well into the coming year. While we cannot say for certain if this will affect shipments to neighboring postal zones and states in and around the southeast, it should dramatically reduce our shipping costs to the west coast, thereby making it more affordable to send small, medium and larger-sized packages all-around the continental US. Typically we were using FedEx Home Delivery to send larger-sized packages to the west coast because USPS Ground Advantage rates were both inexplicably and abnormally high. Now we should be able to send packages of all sizes to the western most zones at much better rates.
According to our FedEx representative, these revised rates will kick in at our end within the next 24-48 hours. Once they do get implemented, we will review the FedEx rates that are shown to our customers on our web site to see if they are being properly reflected. So, give us a few days before we give everyone the green light to choose FedEx for our westernmost delivery destinations. Again, we reserve the right to select the carrier of our choosing, should one turn out to be appreciably less expensive than the others.