FedEx settles customer overcharging lawsuit

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By Gavin van Marle

01/08/2013

FedEx is to pay $21.5m to settle a class action, brought by US businesses and the government, claiming it had significantly overcharged customers. What is particularly interesting in this article in Logistics Management is that it details the typical ways in which this overcharging allegedly took place.

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