Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, we are into the prime shipping season, or Peak Season as everyone in the shipping world calls it. If you are not sure of that, take a quick look at the rates that you are being charged by your carriers. Even if you are not a large volume […]
Following FedEx’s 2024 General Rate Increase Announcement on August 30th, we published an article that provided some details and insight to help shippers begin planning for the increased costs that this will drive. We had also expressed surprise that FedEx had announced an average GRI that was lower than last year. At the time that […]
Surprise Surprise! Most people like a nice surprise, especially when it’s a good one! Yesterday, the parcel shipping world received a nice surprise. FedEx provided an earlier than normal announcement of their General Rate Increase (GRI) for next year. Surprisingly some of the increases that they announced were less than those imposed last year. FedEx […]
A Good News, Bad News, Good News Story Well the results are in- UPS Teamster members have voted to accept the UPS contract offer that their leadership team had tentatively accepted back on July 25, 2023. The contract was overwhelmingly accepted with 86.3 % of UPS Teamsters voting yes to the deal. Shippers no longer […]
On July 25th, 2023 everyone involved in the shipping world let out a big sigh of relief after hearing that UPS and the Teamsters had reached a tentative agreement on a new contract. The key word here is TENTATIVE! The bottom line is that this proposed agreement will need to go out to the 340,000 […]
Some positive news has just hit the presses, so we wanted to help spread the word to our customers and followers. UPS and the Teamsters have just announced that they have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract. Although the agreement has not been officially accepted by the Teamster Membership, their leadership team had […]
