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Several events in the last 18 months, including the COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit, significant weather events, and more, created a substantial shift in the global shipping market and, because of the increase in shipping volumes attributable to the surge in e-commerce, carriers continue to enact an unprecedented number of rate increases, surcharges, and fees.

As global, national, regional, and local shipping carriers try to keep pace with the increase in e-commerce demand, Logistyx continues to track changes in carrier services and shipping costs to offer guidance and solutions for shippers.

UPS - Roadie

September 10, 2021

United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) recently announced a deal to buy Roadie Inc., a technology platform that uses gig workers to enable local same-day delivery. Roadie’s technology platform will provide opportunities to improve existing UPS small package capabilities, while also adding new UPS services for the upcoming peak holiday shipping season when demand for local delivery will surge. As the growth of e-commerce and demand for quicker deliveries continues, the acquisition will allow UPS to break into the same-day delivery market just as major retailers like Amazon, Target, Walgreens, and Walmart have also been building out same-day delivery capabilities. Logistyx already helps retailers and logistics providers ship with both UPS and Roadie as part of its extensive library of 550+ carrier integrations.

ontrac peak business

August 18, 2021
Regional parcel delivery carrier OnTrac, which serves eight western states, will not take any new fourth-quarter business after September 1, a company executive recently confirmed. Businesses will need to be fully onboarded with the carrier as of that date for their parcels to be moved during the peak holiday shipping season.

USPS peak season surcharges

August 18, 2021

The United States Postal Service (USPS) announced peak season surcharges for 2021. The planned peak season pricing would affect prices on commercial and retail domestic competitive parcels. International products would be unaffected. Though less common from the USPS, the peak season surcharge isn’t unprecedented; they announced a similar surcharge for commercial customers ahead of a 2020 peak season when parcel volumes and capacity shortages were both anticipated and later came to fruition. The 2021 surcharge extends beyond commercial shippers to individuals shipping even single packages.

USPS Shippers-1

August 13, 2021

FedEx implements changes to peak surcharges and fees, entering another holiday season during which it expects continued high demand for capacity and increased operating costs across its network. The FedEx surcharges will apply to customers tendering, on average, 25,000 or more weekly shipments under the company’s residential and Ground Economy products. The carrier again anticipates the surge in residential volume to carry into the new year.

new UPS surcharges

June 30, 2021

Looking ahead to the upcoming holidays, when another volume surge is likely to create an extended peak shopping season, UPS is again imposing surcharges across its services, hitting major shippers particularly hard. The holiday surcharges, which kick in October 31 and run until January 15, will, as they did in the 2020-21 cycle, whack UPS shippers that tender the highest volumes. In extreme cases, surcharges will run as high as $6.15 per package.

fedex freight capacity crunch

June 15, 2021

About 1,400 less-than-truckload (LTL) FedEx Freight customers are now in need of a new freight carrier as FedEx Freight recently announced it would cut off their service as it attempts to rectify delays caused by an overwhelming amount of tonnage spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and recovery.

FedEx UPS Increase Surcharges

May 27, 2021

The impact of COVID-19 continues to put a strain on shipping, generating elevated volumes, high demand for capacity, and increased operating costs for carriers. As such, both FedEx and UPS have announced additional peak surcharges due to the pandemic’s continued disruption of the shipping industry. Effective June 21, 2021, FedEx will implement percentage increases to three delivery surcharges, including an additional handling surcharge, a residential delivery surcharge, and a peak surcharge on Ground Economy. Recently started on May 23, the UPS surcharge increase now applies to certain international shipments originating from Asia.

fedex surcharges 2021

December 22, 2020

Faced with extremely high demand for capacity and increased operating costs across its network, FedEx announced new peak season surcharges, effective early November. Company officials said they did this not only to provide their customers with the best possible service during an understandably challenging time, but also to help mitigate risk from what was expected to be historic holiday shipping volumes.

FEDEX APAC surcharges

December 1, 2020

Following FedEx’s previously announced rate increases and late fees set to take effect in 2021, the shipping giant implemented another surcharge increase for parcel and freight shipments originating in Asia Pacific (APAC). According to FedEx, the reasoning behind the increased surcharge is limited air cargo capacity and incurred incremental costs related to COVID-19.

fedex 2021 rate increases

September 17, 2020

Retailers can continue to expect rising prices for shipping parcels beyond peak season 2020, as FedEx recently unveiled rate increases and late fees set to take effect in 2021. Starting in January, FedEx will raise rates an average of 4.9% for its Ground, Express, and Home Delivery services, along with charging a 6% late fee to U.S. FedEx Express and FedEx Ground customers who don’t pay invoices within their agreed upon payment terms.

holiday carrier surcharges-1

September 2, 2020

Record shipping volumes show no signs of slowing. As a result, many carriers are planning for peak season and turning once again to surcharges as a way to protect their profits. Organizations like UPS, FedEx, and even the USPS have already announced they are adding a variety of holiday carrier surcharges to their prices.

UPS Reduces Peak Surcharge China-1200

July 7, 2020

The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve and changing patterns have resulted in a UPS peak surcharge reduction on shipments from China to several countries. As of June 28, 2020, UPS reduced the peak surcharge rate on shipments originating in China Mainland and arriving in the U.S. Surcharges apply to the same categories of service now as they did previously.

parcel shipping carrier surcharges-2

April 28, 2020

While carriers are providing an essential service keeping supply chains moving and ensuring products make it to their final destinations, social distancing guidelines can make processing orders – and delivering them – more difficult. To manage high demand and limited capacity, many carriers have added surcharges to their services, including DHL, FedEx, and UPS.

temporary peak surcharges-1

March 30, 2020

As the world economy reels from the current COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, industries are feeling the effects. For the global shipping industry, the pandemic has resulted in business being more intense than ever before. UPS, FedEx, and DHL have all announced temporary peak surcharges related to the coronavirus.

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