Without a lot of fanfare, UPS has announced their Annual General Rate Increases for 2020, even though these increases will actually take effect on December 29th. Mirroring their rival, FedEx, UPS’ rates for UPS Ground, UPS Air and International services will increase, (and here is the key), ON AVERAGE 4.9%. So depending on the service […]
Each year at the end of the third quarter, parcel shippers play a guessing game trying to determine which parcel Carrier, FedEx or UPS, will take the lead in announcing their General Rate Increases for the following year. Well today, FedEx took the lead in announcing their 2019 General Rate Increase which will become effective […]
Parcel Shippers, Hold Onto Your Wallets! As we previously advised at the end of last year, (along with some new rate increases), UPS is preparing to add additional fees, (some folks call them penalties), to shipper invoices when they ship oversized packages as well as packages with mislabeled dimensions through the UPS parcel shipping network. […]
All information property of the United States Postal Service and reprinted here as a courtesy to our readers. For more information please visit www.usps.com DMM Advisory Classification — keeping you informed about classification and mailing standards of the United States Postal Service USPS™ Announces New Prices for 2018 The Postal Service™ filed notice with the Postal Regulatory Commission […]
Sound familiar? We recently received a call from the CFO of a company who was perplexed by the fact that his company’s sales have been flat the first half of 2017, however his freight costs have been on the rise. His question to us was, “how is that possible”? Well, having been in business for […]
Ever since last week when UPS announced the “Peak Surcharges” they will be applying to various shipment types during the November/December holiday shipping season, many shippers are wondering will FedEx follow suit and add their own peak surcharges. And, that my friends is a very good question. Without a crystal ball it’s anyone’s guess but […]
