FedEx SmartPost to drive busiest day in company history
FedEx expects to see its busiest day in company history when it moves almost 16 million shipments around the world on December 13th. This is an increase of more than 12% over last year’s busiest day, when the company handled 14.2 million shipments. For the overall holiday season, FedEx forecasts more than 223.3 million shipments will move through its global networks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, a total volume increase of approximately 11% compared to 2009. More than half of the holiday season volume increase will be from FedEx SmartPost shipments, where volumes are primarly driven by online retailers and cataloguers who ship high volumes of lightweight shipments to residential customers. US domestic ground packages and global air express shipments will also contribute substantially to overall volumes. During the week of December 13th, also the busiest week of the year for FedEx, the company expects to move more than 63.1 million shipments, compared with 57.5 million during last year’s busiest week. On average, more than 8 million packages move through the FedEx systems daily. FedEx has experienced steady growth in holiday volumes over the last several years, with historical busiest day volumes as follows:
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