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Major NMFC Changes Ahead: Why LTL Shippers Must Act Now
Starting July 19, 2025, over 40% of LTL commodities will be reclassified based on an expanded density-based scale, which could...
Updated FedEx and UPS Fuel Surcharge Rates for June 2025 – What You Need to Know
Shipping Update — Effective June 9, 2025 Originally published in Logistics Strategies Substack Shipping costs are shifting again — quietly but...
UPS Q1 2025 Earnings: What Shippers Need to Know Now
Spring 2025 Reality Check for SMB Shippers Recently published in Logistics Strategies on Substack UPS just closed out its Q1 earnings call, and the...
USPS Proposes New Rate Hikes – Effective July 13
New Tariffs, Rising Costs: What Businesses Need to Know Now
As the U.S., China trade tensions escalate dramatically, businesses are facing a logistics landscape that’s shifting by the hour. In the last two...
New Tariffs Are Raising Costs Across the Supply Chain. Here’s What to Watch — and How to Respond
The latest round of tariffs is more than just another headline - it’s adding significant pressure to already strained supply chains. From imported...
UPS Zone Changes 2025: What Shippers Need to Know Now
UPS Quietly Raises Zones - Again On March 24th, 2025, UPS once again quietly made changes to “certain origin/destination zip code pairs.” These...
USPS Leadership Shift: What Shippers Should Know Now
DeJoy Steps Down, Effective Immediately Last month, USPS Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced that he would be leaving his role. However, at the...
UPS Implements New Surge Fees on Shipments from China, Hong Kong, and Macau: What Shippers Need to Know
Attention Shippers… In case you missed it, your UPS rates from China, Hong Kong and Macau are going up. That’s right, UPS implemented a new “Surge”...
Q1 2025 Truckload Market: Rising Rates, Hidden Opportunities, and What Shippers Need to Know
As we progress through 2025, the truckload market remains in a state of flux. The latest RXO Q1 2025 Truckload Market Forecast projects a modest...
UPS Zone Changes Alert: What Shippers Need to Do Now
Controlling small package shipping costs has become increasingly challenging in recent years. Shippers are grappling with a relentless wave of...
Analyzing the October 21st UPS Zone Changes: What Shippers Need to Know
2025 UPS & FedEx Rate Increases: What Shippers Need to Know Now
It’s the time of year that most shippers are trying to finalize their 2025 budgets. This has become increasingly more difficult given the creative...
UPS Announces 2025 Rate Increase & New Surcharges: Immediate Action Needed!
The International Longshoremen’s Association Strike is Over—For Now!
The recent strike by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) at all U.S. East Coast and Gulf Ports has officially ended, at least...
ILA Officially On Strike
As of Midnight, the long-feared strike by the ILA has actually become a reality. This means that all U.S. East and Gulf Coast ports are shut down...
FedEx 2025 Rate Increases: What Shippers Need to Know
ICC Logistics Promotes Tim Binkis to Chief Client Success Officer
Hicksville, NY – [September 9, 2024] – ICC Logistics, a leading consulting firm that helps businesses around the globe optimize their shipping...
USPS Proposes 2024 Holiday Shipping Rate Hikes: What Shippers Need to Know
The U.S. Postal Service has proposed temporary price increases for certain package services during the 2024 peak holiday season. These adjustments,...
2024 Rate Hikes Are Devastating Profits—The Time to Act is Now!
So, as the summer starts to wind down, the vacation season is over, and the kids are back in school, it can only mean one thing. It’s time for...
Navigating UPS’s New Peak Demand Surcharges and Q2 Earnings
Understanding the New UPS Surcharges: What Shippers Need to Know Within the last few weeks, significant events in the Parcel World have caught the...
Preventing Profit Leaks: Understanding UPS’s Stealthy Rate Hikes
"A small leak will sink a great ship” is a quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin. The quote suggests that even small leaks can eventually cause a...
Decoding the Announcement: Understanding UPS Rate Increase Notifications
Most companies are aware that it’s imperative to have a solid understanding of their costs, and to make adjustments in their business when costs...
Amazon Sunday Deliveries Are Overwhelming Postal Workers Says Supply Chain 247
Supply Chain 247 says U.S. Postal Service is straining to keep up with the volume of packages being delivered on Sundays. According to a recent...
USPS Announces New Mailing Service Price Changes
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Postal Service filed notice with the Postal Regulatory Commission of mailing services price changes to take effect July...
Navigating FedEx and UPS Surcharge Changes: What You Need to Know
As businesses brace for ongoing shifts in the shipping industry, recent announcements from FedEx and UPS regarding upcoming surcharges for...
U.S.P.S New Pricing Proposed
U.S. Postal Service Proposes New Prices for 2024 New prices scheduled to take effect Jan. 21, 2024 Postal Service prices remain among the most...
UPS Announces (and Surprises) with GRI Announcement
FedEx Announces GRI Early
Surprise Surprise! Most people like a nice surprise, especially when it’s a good one! Yesterday, the parcel shipping world received a nice...
UPS Teamster Update: It Still Ain’t Over
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...
UPS Tentative Agreement Reached!
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...
UPS/Teamsters- Down to the Wire!
We are getting down to the wire with the UPS/Teamster negotiations. As of today there are only 13 days left on the Teamster strike countdown clock....
UPS/Teamster Silence is Loud!
Crickets! It has been eerily quiet since our last post related to the UPS/Teamster Contract negotiations on July 7th. We had been hoping to be able...
Update: UPS/Teamsters Talks Stall
The UPS Teamsters negotiations took a turn for the worse this week. We had been encouraged by the progress being made. Both UPS and the Teamsters...
UPDATE: UPS/Teamsters Get Contentious
As expected and predicted, the UPS-Teamsters negotiations have become extremely contentious and heated up over the past week. The union and UPS had...
Important Developments Alert: UPS/Teamsters
To ensure our readers and followers have the most current information regarding the UPS/Teamster Labor Negotiations, we are providing some important...
Latest UPS-Teamsters Update
The UPS Teamster official countdown clock read 42 Days, 13 hours and 58 minutes until the expiration of their contract with UPS, at the time that we...
Your UPS-Teamsters Update
At the time we started writing this article, the official on-line Teamster countdown clock indicated that there were 61 Days, 9 hours, 32, minutes...
Labor Action Shuts Down West Coast Ports
Today, members of the ILWU have staged a “no show” that has effectively shut down many West Coast ports, including Los Angeles and Long Beach,...
USPS Resumption Notice
International Service Resumption Notice – effective June 2, 2023 Effective Friday, June 2, 2023, the Postal Service™ will resume acceptance of mail...
Breaking: UPS-Teamsters Update
This week ICC Logistics Services was encouraged by developments related to the ongoing UPS-Teamster contract negotiations. There appears to have...
USPS Pricing Updates and Improvements
USPS Ground Advantage Reduces Prices, Simplifies Shipping Solutions and Improves Service Reliability The United States Postal Service has filed with...
UPS News:Teamsters and Q1 Earnings
So the big news this week in the transportation world was UPS’ reported miss on earnings and revenue for the 1st Quarter of 2023, along with lowered...
USPS New Requirements
US Postal Service Implements New Requirements for Using Electronic Indicator for Hazardous Materials On April 21, 2023, the US Postal Service issued...
UPS/Teamsters: Negotiations Have Begun!
We're supplying you with the information you won't find anywhere else! In our last article, we reported that the Teamsters union had informed UPS...
Update on UPS Teamsters Negotiations
In our last article related to the current UPS/Teamster- Contract negotiations, we reported that there were some positive developments worth noting....
US Postal Rates Going Up, Again!
U.S. Postal Service Files Notice with PRC for New Mailing Services Pricing In announcing this latest postage increase, the US Postal Service stated...
UPS-Teamster contract negotiations
ICC Logistics Services is committed to keeping our clients and followers up to date with developments related to the upcoming UPS-Teamster contract...
UPS Teamster Negotiations Update
ICC Logistics Services is committed to keeping our customers and followers up to date with developments related to the upcoming UPS-Teamster...
