
USPS Ground Advantage vs. UPS and FedEx: Who’s winning the parcel game (and is it shippers)?
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

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

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

Is it just me? Or does the recent change to UPS’s latest Additional Handling surcharge make some of my packages look heavier? It’s not just

Halloween has come and gone. But FedEx is still planning to treat itself to a bigger share of your pocketbooks courtesy of its latest GRI

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.

Fill in the blank: The biggest news to come out of UPS and FedEx over the past couple of years has been related to ______.

Are you hot under the collar about parcel carriers’ continuing price increases? It’s probably not because of the weather. Check out these uncool findings about

Last month, AFS mentioned that during December, FedEx implemented one new fuel surcharge increase while UPS implemented two. Was that a typo by chance? Unfortunately,

FedEx and UPS introduced peak season surcharges as a way to compensate for the need to hire more workers and buy or rent additional machinery

Fuel is the only surcharge that applies to every small package that is shipped. While there are a plethora of other surcharges, they are only
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