News / New UPS surcharges land – and drive US shippers to look for alternatives

31/08/2022

UPS is turning the screw on its customers in the US again in its pursuit of higher-margin business.

To nobody’s surprise, the integrator is raising surcharges for parcel deliveries, with the biggest impact hitting large shippers, as much of the mechanism is volume-based, hitting those that send more than 20,000 packages a week.

The surcharges will kick in on 30 October, and stay until 14 January, on four services in the UPS portfolio: Ground Residential; Next-Day Air Residential; other residential deliveries involving ...