Does FedEx deliver on weekends?

Does FedEx deliver on Saturday?

Yes, depending on the service and the address. FedEx treats Saturday as a working day for FedEx Ground deliveries to homes in big cities, and sells Saturday delivery as an extra on its faster services:

FedEx says its Ground Saturday markets cover 82% of the population of Canada’s major urban centres, or nearly two thirds of everyone in Canada. It doesn’t publish the cities or postal codes, for Ground or for Saturday Service. The six provinces it names leave out Atlantic Canada and the territories, where FedEx Ground doesn’t deliver on Saturday. For any other address, FedEx’s rate tool gives the expected delivery date.

The Ground rule follows the transit time. A home parcel with two business days in transit that ships on a Thursday, or one business day that ships on a Friday, would otherwise arrive the next Monday. In FedEx’s Saturday markets it arrives on the Saturday instead, at no extra cost.

Does FedEx deliver on Sunday?

No. FedEx Canada’s help pages say “Saturday and Sunday are not regular shipping days,” and none of its services within Canada lists Sunday delivery, paid or free. A parcel that would land on a weekend and doesn’t qualify for Saturday arrives on Monday, or on Tuesday when that Monday is a FedEx holiday.

How late does FedEx deliver?

FedEx publishes a time of day for its express services only. Within Canada, in most metropolitan areas, FedEx commits to:

• FedEx First Overnight: 10 am the next business day.
• FedEx Priority Overnight: the morning of the next business day.
• FedEx Standard Overnight: the next business day by 5:00 pm to businesses and 8:00 pm to homes.
• FedEx 2Day: one to two business days, by 5:00 pm to businesses and 8:00 pm to homes.
• FedEx Economy: one to three business days, on the same times as 2Day.

The latest FedEx promises is 8:00 pm, to a home. FedEx Ground comes with a day rather than a time: FedEx sells it as 1 to 7 business days, and its rate tool gives the expected delivery date and time for each shipment. FedEx doesn’t publish Saturday delivery times.

What counts as a business day for FedEx

FedEx’s service guide defines a business day in Canada as Monday to Friday, except holidays or the day a holiday is observed, and its transit times count only those days. FedEx Ground’s 1 to 7 business days and 2Day’s 1 to 2 never include a Saturday; a Saturday delivery comes on top of the count.

A delivery that would fall on a FedEx holiday is rescheduled for the next business day, and FedEx notes that provincial holidays change its schedule too. On Remembrance Day, for example, it closes in Nova Scotia only. The FedEx holiday schedule lists each date by province, and the delivery time calculator counts FedEx’s business days between any two postal codes.

Weekend pickups and drop-off

FedEx doesn’t empty its drop boxes on Saturdays, and it doesn’t pick up from most FedEx Ship Centres that day either. A parcel left in a drop box on a Saturday usually ships on the next business day, which then counts as its ship date. Many Ship Centres open late and on Saturdays, and drop boxes are emptied at different times; FedEx’s location finder shows each location’s hours and the time of its last pickup.

FedEx offers Saturday pickups in most major cities for a fee. Dangerous goods can be dropped off at a FedEx Ship Centre on a Saturday, with one day added to the delivery commitment. Our FedEx drop-off and pickup guide covers the types of location, the drop box size limit and cut-off times.

FedEx weekend delivery with a ProtonShip label

A ProtonShip quote shows FedEx’s own delivery date for your two addresses when FedEx gives one, so a FedEx Ground parcel to a home in one of FedEx’s Saturday markets can show, and arrive on, a Saturday. Where FedEx gives no date, the estimate counts business days only.

FedEx’s paid Saturday Service on 2Day and Standard Overnight isn’t offered in ProtonShip quotes. Booking a pickup through ProtonShip isn’t offered either: hand the parcel to a FedEx driver who already collects from you, or drop it off at a FedEx location before its last pickup of the day.

For other carriers, see UPS on weekends, Purolator on weekends and which carriers deliver on weekends.

Questions about FedEx on weekends