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Eric Kulisch
Mon, July 20, 2026 astatine 8:41 AM CDT 4 min read
FedEx is introducing, but not wide advertising, a bid of caller charges and fees implicit the adjacent 2 weeks that could drawback customers by surprise, gathering connected a caller pricing strategy aimed astatine boosting gross without touching basal rates that shippers thin to absorption on.
The surcharges are typically little disposable to freight owners than basal rates and tin person a ample interaction connected proscription budgets.
Shippers person experienced a important summation successful substance surcharges from FedEx, UPS and adjacent the U.S. Postal Service arsenic the Iran warfare constricted crude lipid supplies, pushing up the outgo of diesel and pitchy substance utilized to powerfulness their fleets, arsenic the TD Cowen/AFS Logistics Freight Index quantified past week. Fuel surcharges successful the 2nd 4th were two-thirds higher than the anterior year. Overall, the explicit parcel complaint per bundle accrued 5.9% successful the 2nd quarter, portion the crushed parcel complaint per bundle grew 5.2%.
"The biggest takeaway is not conscionable that FedEx is raising rates connected a continual basis, but however those increases person been distributed. Many shippers present spot accessorial charges successful the high-30% to low-40% scope arsenic a stock of spend, with immoderate exceeding 50%, LJM said successful an nonfiction connected its website. The changeless micro-adjustments mean businesses should reappraisal their contracts much than erstwhile a year, it added.
On Monday, FedEx reclassified its zip codification database for transportation and pickup country surcharges, pushing immoderate zip codes into pricier tiers and making different zip codes surcharge-eligible for the archetypal time. The effect is that 102 zip codes were added to the modular transportation country surcharge tier, 74 moved from modular to extended country and 63 moved from extended to distant country — the highest outgo tier. Shippers with packages destined to oregon picked up from immoderate of the reclassified zip codes are present taxable to higher per-package surcharge costs.
For transportation country surcharges, the determination from extended to distant represents an summation of $11.20 per bundle for commercialized shipments and $7.95 per bundle for residential shipments. Lower tiers received much humble increases. For pickup country surcharges, the extended-to-remote promotion adds $7.20 per stop.
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