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Re:UberRUSH API – Add on-demand delivery to your app or service by laurabw on Thursday June 09, 2016 @02:03PM (#11871126)
FedEx is not really focused on same day/same hour intra city delivery. Most of the shipping providers have an infrastructure around warehouses set in place. This means that the shipping providers picks up all packages and then brings them to a warehouse where they are sorted and then shipped out again. UberRush comes to the pick-up location and directly brings it to the recipient.
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Re:UberRUSH API – Add on-demand delivery to your app or service by dragonwriter on Thursday June 09, 2016 @02:21PM (#11871274)
> FedEx is not really focused on same day/same hour intra city delivery.

Well, in that they have lots of other services, sure, but FedEx does have both long-distance (FedEx SameDay) and shorter-time-window local (FedEx SameDay City) same-day services.

The main difference would be that FedEx isn't subsidizing rates with investor money to fuel growth, so its more expensive.

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Re:UberRUSH API – Add on-demand delivery to your app or service by kuschku on Thursday June 09, 2016 @03:14PM (#11871596)
DHL has same-day and within-of-6-hour delivery in most cities.
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