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To the surprise of no one, FedEx announced an increase to its rates by 4.9% to 5.9% on many services, beginning January 4, 2021. The increases will impact FedEx’s Air and International, Ground, [...]

It’s that time of year again. FedEx has announced an increase to its rates by 4.9% to 5.9% on many services, beginning January 4, 2021. And of course, Transportation Impact is hard at work [...]

UPS has made a short and to-the-point announcement regarding a rate increase for SurePost. Of note is that this increase will be in place for the upcoming peak shipping season and will impact [...]

Today, UPS announced new Peak Season Surcharges with some going into effect as early as October 4, 2020, and lasting until January 16, 2021. Not surprisingly, the surcharges are focused on [...]

On Thursday July 23rd UPS made an announcement back tracking on the decreases they made on June 23rd. This announcement increases the surcharge amount for shipments from China up to what it was [...]

The impact of COVID-19 from the perspective of the small parcel shipping market has been to accelerate a trend that was already occurring — which is the growth of ecommerce and the resultant [...]

From the UPS website: As previously announced, one or more Peak Surcharges apply to certain international shipments and U.S. domestic packages. Effective June 28, 2020 until further notice, the [...]

FedEx has announced the following rate changes which will go into effect June 8, 2020. From the FedEx website: FedEx is an essential business keeping commerce moving and delivering critical [...]

UPS has made the following announcement regarding additional Peak Season Surcharges that will go into effect May 31, 2020. From the UPS website: Peak Surcharge – Applied to UPS® Ground [...]

UPS has made the following announcement regarding the Peak Season Surcharges that went into effect on April 12, 2020. The forthcoming percentage increases to the existing surcharges are [...]