[Milsurplus] RAK RAL Shipping

[KD7JYK DM09]

"AFAIK Fed Ex Gnd will not deliver to a residential address. That is the 
job of Fed Ex Home."

No.

FedEx "Home", is just a cheaper method of ground, for the household that 
may not ship much, or large items and don't want to pay the large 
freight, or commercial rates.

All the info is on their site, but I send and receive regularly, so in a 
nutshell...

Ground, and Home, are the same, they go to a physical address.  That 
physical address, may or may not also be a postal address, so there is 
also Smart Post, to go to a PO Box if you choose.  If you are part of 
the postal services "alternate addressing" program (through a contract 
with them), you can also have ground, or home freight sent to the PO by 
using their physical address, at which point they will re-route it to 
your box, which no other service is allowed to use.

The rule of thumb is, any service with the word "post" (UPS, or FedEx), 
goes to a "post"al address, whether it's a box, or a physical.

The rest are just ground, aka freight, and go to a physical, whether 
it's a loading dock, or a front porch.

The real nice thing about ground is that you don't even need an address, 
just a time and location, for example, an intersection of two dirt 
roads, in the hills, thirty miles from town, at 3 PM on a Tuesday.  I've 
done that a couple of times as well.

Kurt