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ParcelCarson Brown and ACR Crew Bring the Speed to the Slinger Nationals
What a day for Carson Brown and the entire ACR Crew. After leading practice sessions several times, the team converted that speed into a major result and a $5,000 check. The performance reflects the preparation, teamwork, and consistency required to compete at a high level.
AmazonAmazon Parcel Carrier Competition: Rethink Your Carrier Mix
A retailer built a delivery network to serve itself. Today, that network sells capacity to your competitors. Here is what parcel shippers, CFOs, and transportation leaders should evaluate before the next contract cycle opens. Amazon opened its logistics network to every business. Here is what parcel shippers should do next.
ParcelParcel Carrier Monthly Subscription
On Monday, July 6, right in the middle of summer, UPS updated its official Rate and Service Guides. Notably, there was no corporate press release and no sweeping general rate announcement. Instead, a fresh PDF quietly went live and instantly re-baselined accessorial costs.
ParcelParcel Delivery Trust Strategy
First-time buyers are willing to take a chance on your brand. However, they need proof before they hand over a payment. Increasingly, that proof lives in your shipping experience. For parcel shippers, the message is direct. Delivery is now part of the trust equation.
FedExFedEx 2026 Sustainability Report: What Parcel Shippers Need to Watch
FedEx is using sustainability to redesign its parcel network. As a result, this report is far more than an environmental update. It is a cost, service, and carrier strategy signal. FedEx 2026 Sustainability Report: What Parcel Shippers Need to Watch FedEx is redesigning its parcel network around sustainability.
AmazonAmazon Prime Air Expands Drone Delivery in Baton Rouge
Amazon keeps testing faster, denser, and more localized delivery models. Consequently, the pressure those models create will ripple across e-commerce, and it will eventually reach your carrier contracts.
ParcelParcel Shipping Strategy: How Shippers Can Win on Cost, Speed, and Customer Experience
As the 2026 World Cup reaches its final rounds, the field has narrowed to the teams that prepared best. Meanwhile, the ones who relied on talent and hustle alone have already gone home. Above all, the survivors share one trait. They win with strategy. The World Cup is down to its final teams.
USPSUSPS Reform Update
USPS reform is no longer a policy story. Instead, it has become a parcel strategy issue. Consequently, every shipper that leans on the postal network should treat the latest Senate testimony as a signal to review contracts, lanes, and carrier mix now rather than after rates move. USPS says it has a broken business model.
FedExCMA CGM Acquires FedEx Supply Chain
CMA CGM has agreed to acquire FedEx Supply Chain
ParcelEU Customs Changes 2026: Duty-Free Parcels End July 1
The EU Just Ended Duty-Free Parcels: What Shippers Must Know Now
ParcelAI in Ecommerce: What Parcel Shippers Need to Know About Data, Trust, and Delivery Strategy
AI in Ecommerce: What Parcel Shippers Need to Know About Data, Trust, and Delivery Shoppers are warming to AI. Yet trust in how their data is used still lags, and delivery is where that trust is won or lost.
USPSUSPS dimensional pricing changes 2026
That advantage is narrowing. USPS is overhauling how it calculates dimensional pricing for large, lightweight packages, and the changes take effect July 12, 2026. There is no headline base-rate increase attached to this, which is exactly why it is easy to miss.
FedExFedEx Q4 2026 Earnings Signal Higher Parcel Costs for Shippers
FedEx Q4 FY2026 Earnings: What Rising Yields Mean for Parcel Shippers
ParcelWhy Packaging Optimization Is Now a Small Parcel Shipping Advantage
Why Packaging Discipline Is Now a Small Parcel Advantage – Every inch inside a box now carries a cost. Carriers price the space a shipment occupies, not only the weight on the scale. As a result, the carton you choose has quietly become one of the strongest levers you hold over parcel spend.
UPSUPS UK Delivery Outsourcing
UPS UK Delivery Outsourcing: What Parcel Shippers Should Watch Next
UPSUPS AI Logistics Expansion
UPS AI Expansion Signals a New Era for Parcel Visibility and Control
FedExFedEx Expands Inbound Processing Fee to EU Shipments
Effective August 3, 2026, the U.S. Inbound Processing Fee will be renamed the Inbound Processing Fee. In addition, the fee will expand beyond its current scope and apply to all shipments destined to European Union member states.
FedExFedEx Delivery and Pickup Area Surcharge Update
FedEx is updating its Delivery Area Surcharge and Pickup Area Surcharge ZIP code lists for U.S. package services. These changes may look small at the ZIP level. However, for shippers with concentrated volume, they can create serious cost exposure. FedEx is redrawing its surcharge map on July 20, 2026.
UPSUPS Extends Complex Healthcare Logistics
Cold-chain logistics has officially become a boardroom issue. On June 22, 2026, UPS announced a $48 million investment in temperature-controlled freight cross-dock facilities across the globe. At first glance, this looks like a healthcare story. However, the real signal runs much deeper. UPS just put $48 million into temperature-controlled freight.
ParcelCarson Brown celebrates in Victory Lane.
Carson Brown may only be 17 years old, yet he is already proving that he belongs at the front of the ASA STARS National Tour. On Sunday night at Slinger Speedway, Brown delivered another statement performance.
FedExFedEx Disbursement Fee Increase
FedEx has announced an increase to its Disbursement Fee, effective July 20, 2026. This fee applies whenever FedEx pays duties, taxes, or other customs-agency charges on behalf of the payer. Currently, the charge is the greater of $15 or 2% of applicable duties, taxes, and merchandise processing fees.
UPSUPS Import and Export Surcharges Add New Cost Pressure for Global Shippers
UPS is adding fresh pressure to international parcel budgets. Specifically, new import and export surge fees now affect key global lanes. As a result, these charges land on shippers who are already managing fuel volatility, tariffs, and peak-season planning. UPS just added per-pound import and export surge fees to key global lanes.
UPSUPS Surge Emergency Fee
UPS has updated its Surge Emergency Fee schedule. The biggest change hits shippers moving packages from India to the United States. UPS pulled India out of the broad Asia origin group and gave it a dedicated, higher per-pound fee. India-origin UPS shipments just jumped from $0.11 to $0.66 per pound, a 6× increase.
FedExFedEx International Fuel Surcharge Update
FedEx International Fuel Surcharge Update
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