UPS Announces 2020 General Rate Increases (GRI)
Effective December 29, 2019, UPS Ground, UPS Air and International services rates will increase by an average of 4.9%. Keep in mind that there is often a discrepancy between...
UPS Eliminating Residential Peak Surcharges For 2019
Residential surcharges can make business more difficult during the holidays. Whether a company is offering free shipping to customers or charging customers for the service, the additional fees add...
5 Steps Shippers Can Use to Monitor UPS® Costs
After months of contract negotiations between UPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union’s chief negotiator announced that the union had reached a tentative agreement. The UPS contract...
UPS® vs. FedEx® for International Shipments
Updated March 22, 2024 If you’re sending items internationally, you’re entering an even more complex shipping world than the domestic one you may already know. According to FedEx, 30%...
UPS Announces 2019 Rate Increases
Shipware Preliminary Analysis: What You Need to Know United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS), will increase shipping rates effective December 26th, 2019 by an average of 4.9% for UPS Ground,...
Getting Started With UPS Insurance Coverage
Shipping is a critical link to customer satisfaction. Once a customer purchases a product, they expect it to arrive on time and in good condition. And if a package...
UPS Holiday Shipping Deadlines & Other Helpful Tips
Online shopping during the holidays is consistently growing, and this year will be no exception. During 2016, online holiday shopping accounted for $94.4 billion in revenue, and in 2017,...
SurePost vs. SmartPost: What’s the Difference?
Selecting the best shipping option is not an easy task for retailers already facing intense pressure to ship faster, cheaper, and more efficiently. Yet retailers know that striking the...
How Does UPS SurePost Work?
Shipping is an important piece of the puzzle for most companies. But it’s not just about shipping quickly enough to make customers happy or shipping efficiently enough to realize...
2018 FedEx & UPS Peak Season Surcharges
The FedEx/UPS near-duopoly has allowed the two large carriers to control marketplace pricing for years, echoing each other’s rate hikes to the detriment of parcel shippers, small and large....