FedEx is cutting Sunday service in certain rural markets, lowering its national coverage from 95% to 80% on Sundays starting in mid-August.
FedEx did not specify exactly which rural markets would be losing their Sunday deliveries.
“As economic conditions have shifted, we are making operational adjustments to suspend Sunday delivery operations in certain low-density, rural markets,” FedEx said
in a statement to Bloomberg News.
The growth in online commerce led FedEx to implement delivery on Sundays in late 2019, a move that proved fortuitous during the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020. Demand for online shipping has since declined from its pandemic peak.