March 6th, 2025
UPS is rolling out significant changes to its invoicing and payment processes in 2025, introducing new fees and adjustments that could impact shippers’ operational costs. These changes are part of an effort to modernize payment processing and…
February 25th, 2025
As UPS continues to address operational costs and maintain service quality, several important changes will take effect starting March 24, 2025. These adjustments are designed to optimize shipping services, but they also come with impacts to your …
January 28th, 2025
The parcel market in 2025 offers shippers a unique opportunity to negotiate favorable rates, driven by aggressive discounting. Carries’ will continue to focus on maintaining their rate increase with tighter controls on pricing. Regional carriers,…
January 17th, 2025
FedEx announced a series of rate and surcharge increases for 2025. Fuel surcharge – Effective February 10, 2025. FedEx will adjust the fuel surcharges and update the tables for domestic package and express freight services, FedEx Ground®,…
January 13th, 2025
Effective January 19, 2025, the United States Postal Service (USPS) will implement price adjustments for several shipping services: Domestic Priority Mail and Express:
Rates will increase by approximately 3.2%. USPS Ground Advantage:…
December 18th, 2024
Effective December 23, UPS will adjust its fuel surcharge tables again. This modification will impact Domestic Ground, SurePost, and Express services. How will this impact your cost? Increasing the current diesel base rate from 16.25% to…
December 16th, 2024
On December 13, 2024, the Postal Service amended the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) to discontinue dual shipping labels.
That amendment will discontinue Dual Shipping Labels effective January 1,…
November 16th, 2024
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has filed notice with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) for proposed Shipping Services price changes effective January 19, 2025, approved by the USPS Governors. The changes include:
– Priority Mail & Priority…
November 12th, 2024
A Midwest regional delivery service, Spee-Dee Delivery, states to their customers in a letter on November 11 that they will not be raising their rates in 2025. Spee-Dee Delivery provides regular shipping services to all of Illinois, Iowa,…
October 29th, 2024
UPS and FedEx both announced an increase of 5.9% in 2025 General Rate Increase (GRI). The FedEx Increase is effective January 6, 2025, and the UPS effective rate is two weeks earlier, on December 23, 2024. The General Rate Increase impact…