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The era of parcel price increases announced on a predictable, annual cadence with plenty of advance notice for shippers is over. Competition from the United States Postal Service and regional carriers has FedEx and UPS looking to defend their slice of a soft market while trying to shift away from the discount-heavy dynamics of the […]
If parcel carriers changing payment terms and late fees sounds familiar, it should. Just last year, FedEx and UPS unleashed a wave of changes to payment terms and now the uncertain parcel pricing landscape is shifting again, this time with UPS releasing another batch of changes set to take effect March 31, 2025. Late payment […]
While many students are preparing to hit the books again, one of the country’s largest parcel carriers is preparing to hit you with higher costs. In early July, UPS posted the latest updates to its Demand Surcharges – and let’s just say they’re not exactly shipper friendly. In addition to revealing UPS’s planned increases to […]
Fill in the blank: The biggest news to come out of UPS and FedEx over the past couple of years has been related to ______. If you answered, “their annual rate increases,” you’re not alone. However you’re also mistaken, because while most of us have been busy focusing on the ins and outs of the […]
Quick show of hands: Who watched Groundhog Day for the umpteenth time last month? Most viewers will tell you that it’s a story of a man who winds up living the same day over and over again. However, we prefer to think of it as the story of a man who ultimately learns how to […]
It’s time for another round of “Two Truths and a Lie” where you try to figure out which two statements are true and which one is false – hence the name. Get ready to try your hand at our latest LTL-centric edition – and to learn more about how your LTL shipping experience is likely […]
When we say this article contains breaking news, we mean it quite literally. Over the past few months, we’ve begun to see a steep increase in the number of LTL shipments that have arrived broken, partially damaged or missing some of their components. In fact, these incidences have nearly doubled for many shippers […]
Sometimes the only good thing you can say about a month is that it’s over. Just ask Estes Express, which spent much of October recovering from an especially wicked and widespread cyberattack. Like AFS, you probably watched the story unfold in real time since the news of it broke while many of us were at […]
If the early bird gets the worm, you might want to send FedEx a whole can of them. On August 29, the carrier shared plans to increase its Express and Ground prices by an average of 5.9% in 2024 – beating UPS (which is raising its base rates by the same amount) to the punch […]
