International Freighting Weekly reports that FedEx recently introduced a new expedited next flight delivery service dedicated to customs-cleared, door-to-door international shipments. The new service offers the United Kingdom and Ireland connection close to 220 countries around the year.
Adam Psarianos, Operations Vice President of FedEx Express Northern Europe, said: “FedEx is in the business of delivering solutions to make customers’ lives easier and their businesses more profitable. We always focus on delivering the difference to our customers, and with FedEx International Next Flight we have an important additional service that will meet our customers’ most urgent shipping needs.”
FedEx says the newly launched service would cover critical, rushed shipments, out-of-hours pickups and deliveries, Friday pickups with weekend deliveries, and weekend pickups with Monday deliveries.
Customers using FedEx’s new service would benefit from pick-ups in as short a time span as one hour following a customer request, as well as enhanced tracking and notification, proof of delivery and delay, unlimited total shipment weight, and money-back guarantee for service failure.
Meanwhile, in celebration of the holiday season, FedEx has taken on the delivery packages for shoppers and non-profit organizations. Expanding on their year-round activities throughout November and December, the company will provide volunteer hours and in-kind delivery services around the globe.
Some of its annual activities that will take place this year as well include: transportation of thousands of real Christmas trees to Iraq for distribution at US military bases, special deliveries to organizations, children, and families across the US and Canada and similar support extended to charities and such events.
