October 2022 – NASCES
Controlling Shipping Costs in a More Expensive World How supply chain leaders can get their arms around spiraling shipping costs ...
FedEx Makes History with Biggest Rate Increases in Decades
Home Delivery DAS Surcharge Up 10.4% Additional Handling Surcharge to exceed 21% FedEx announced their 2023 General Rate Increase on ...
AFMS Overview of 2022 FedEx Announcement
FedEx rolling out complex “Peaking Factor”As of August 5th, FedEx has announced a new version of how they will calculate ...
Hot Parcel Companies 2022
AFMS is the leading transportation price benchmarking firm in North America and Europe with business intelligence analytics focused on reducing ...
UPS & FedEx Rolled Out Big Pricing Changes in 2022 That Shippers Should Be Aware Of
UPS debuts Delivery Area Surcharge-Remote and Double-Digit increases. UPS & FedEx DAS changes expected to play a bigger profit role in ...
Finding the Best Shipping Options for Small to Medium-Sized Businesses
By the end of 2021, retailers both online and in-store saw a significant increase in holiday spending, which rose 8.5% compared ...
Best practices to reduce shipping costs with major carriers
See video from Automotive Logistics Conference. Freight pricing specialists AFMS, CEO Mike Erickson, gives an inside track on best practices ...
2022 USPS, Postal Rate Changes – Take Effect Jan. 9, 2022
As part of it’s 10-year plan to achieve financial sustainability and service excellence, the United States Postal Service has filed ...
UPS Set Implement New 2022 Rate Hikes
During this past year we have all experienced change as our businesses and communities navigate through this challenging time. We ...
UPS Service Guarantee
Read Announcement on UPS.com Update: Effective October 18, 2021 and until further notice, UPS is making the following operational adjustments: ...
October 2021 – ALSC
Best Practices to Reduce Shipping Costs with Major Carriers Extreme freight rates and limited capacity are the new normal for ...
USPS Is Making This Permanent Change Starting Friday
Read Full Article On bestlifeonline.comTHE COMING DAYS COULD BRING A WHOLE NEW MEANING TO THE TERM "SNAIL MAIL."Even in the ...
FedEx Announces 2022 Rate Increase
FedEx Ground, which delivers to businesses, and FedEx home delivery will increase by an average of 5.9%. FedEx Freight customers ...
DHL Introduces Its Peak Surcharge Schedule
Continued pressure on carrier capacities has led carriers such as FedEx, UPS and now DHL to implement additional shipping surcharges in advance of ...
Rate Changes – June 4, 2021 / UPS Peak Surcharge Update
Effective June 13, 2021 until further notice, the amount of the Peak Surcharges applied to certain international shipments originating from ...
Canada Post not to be left out the Surcharge party
Effective September 13th, Canada Post will increase rates to both Domestic, USA and International parcels. Increase ranging from 2.8% (US /International) ...
UPS enters into the “Peak” Season of surcharges..
Effective June 13, 2021, UPS will apply additional Peak increases to those international shipments originating in Japan destined to Canada. Previous ...
Is a Day of Reckoning Coming to FedEx, UPS?
FedEx remains inundated with elevated parcel volume stemming from continued online shopping resulting in longer delivery times, service blunders ...
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