For supported carriers, the screens that enable you to add transit days and holidays allow you to configure how weekends and holidays are managed with time in transit calculations.

Notes:

•When you import a time in transit file or a holiday file, the data in this file appears in the table on the corresponding screen. For information on the fields on these screens as well as file formats, see the following Help topic: Time in Transit Files.

•For information on how the time in transit flags on these screens behave, see the table in the following section: Example: How TinT options are calculated.

Transit Days

To add services and geographic codes for transit time calculations...

1.Click the Transit Days link under a carrier that supports this option, and then click the plus icon to display the Add Record screen for entering transit days:

2.Enter the following values:

a.From the Carrier Service drop-down list, select the service for which you want to specify transit time or leave the default All Services.

b.From the Geographic Code drop-down list, select the geographic code for which you want to specify transit time or leave the default All Geocodes.

c.In the Transit Days field, enter a whole number; for example: 2

d.In the Transit Time field, enter a time in the form HH:MM:SS.

e.If Saturday Delivery is allowed with this service for this geographic code (or all geocodes), enter Y in this field; if not allowed, enter N.

f.To add two days to the delivery date if Saturday and Sunday are not counted as transit days, enter Y in the Add Weekend Transit field; if not, enter N.

3.Click [SAVE] to add this record to the table on the Transit Days screen or click [CANCEL] to exit without saving.

Holidays

To add a holiday with transit time option for a carrier service...

1.Click the Holidays link under a carrier that supports this option, and then click the plus icon to display the Add Record screen for entering transit days for services and Geographic codes:

2.Enter the following values:

a.From the Service Name drop-down list, select the service for which you want to specify a holiday or leave the default All Services.

b.From the Country drop-down list, select the country for which you want to specify a holiday or leave the default All Countries.

c.In the State/Province field, optionally enter the state, province, or equivalent region within the selected country (or leave blank if you selected All Countries for the previous value).

d.In the Holiday Description field, optionally enter a description of the holiday.

e.In the Holiday Date field, enter the date of the holiday in the form YYYY-MM-DD; for example: 2012-12-25.

f.If delivery on this holiday is allowed for this service and country, enter Y in the Allow Delivery field; otherwise, enter N.

g.To add one day to the delivery date if the holiday is not counted as a transit day, enter Y in the Add Transit field; otherwise, enter N.

3.Click [SAVE] to add this record to the table on the Holidays screen or click [CANCEL] to exit without saving.

Weekends

Note: Currently, Parcel supports this functionality only for FedEx Ground® and FedEx Home Delivery® services and for UPS Ground® services.

To add a weekend with transit time option for a carrier service...

1.Click the Weekends link under a carrier that supports this option, and then click the plus icon to display the Add Record screen for entering transit days for services:

2.Enter the following values:

a.From the Service Name drop-down list, select the service for which you want to specify a weekend (see the previous Note).

b.From the Country drop-down list, select United States, since weekend TinT functionality currently applies only to domestic FedEx Ground®, FedEx Home Delivery®, and UPS Ground® shipments.

c.From the State/Province drop-down list, optionally select the U.S. state for which this TinT calculation applies or select All States.

d.In the Weekend field, optionally enter the weekend day in the form of an abbreviation consisting of the first three letters of the day in English; for example:

•Saturday – SAT

•Sunday –  SUN

e.If delivery on this weekend day is allowed for this service, enter Y in the Allow Delivery field; otherwise, enter N.

f.If the weekend day is a transit day, and the delivery time will be shortened by one day, enter Y in the Allow Transit field; otherwise, enter N.

Notes:

•If you set up a record for SAT, then you are required to set up a record for SUN. In this case, you can set Allow Delivery and Add Transit both to N.

•If you set Allow Delivery to Y, then you must set Allow Transit to Y.

The following example shows this screen filled out for the FedEx Ground® service for all U.S. states with Saturday as the weekend day, allowing Saturday delivery and counting Saturday as a transit day:

Note: The default is not to count weekend days (Saturday and Sunday) as transit days.

3.Click [Save] to add this record to the table on the Weekends screen or click [Cancel] to exit without saving.

Examples: How TinT options are calculated with weekends and holidays

For the possible settings with Time in Transit and Holidays, the following table lists and describes the possible delivery days for the following example: Time in transit is two days. Pickup is on Thursday.