Considering days-of-week delivery at service level

You can specify at each service level the specific days of the week on which a delivery can be made.

For example, an express service can be set up to allow deliveries to be made all seven days of the week, but a regular service can be set up to allow deliveries to be made only Monday through Friday.

You can also specify at each service level the specific days of the week on which the carrier transfers shipments. The transfer schedule of the carrier can affect the transit time of a shipment. For example, if the calculated transit time for a Friday shipment is 48 hours and the carrier does not transfer on the weekends, the shipment will not be delivered until Tuesday.

When calculating the delivery date given to a ship date, the delivery date is calculated as the next date that occurs on or after the ship date plus the transit-transfer time. The delivery date should be a valid day of the week for the service chosen.

For example, the transit time is calculated as 48 hours between two locations, "Ground" service is chosen to make the delivery and is configured to make deliveries Monday through Friday. The service transfers shipments Monday through Sunday. In this example, the delivery date is Monday for any Thursday or Friday shipments.

However, if the service is configured to transfer shipments only Monday through Friday, the delivery date is Monday for Thursday shipments and Tuesday for Friday shipments.