Surge Fee Announced

Surge Fees will apply to certain shipments effective June 29, 2025.

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Domestic Fuel Surcharge

Effective June 23, 2025, the U.S. Ground Domestic and the UPS Ground Saver^® Fuel Surcharge and the U.S. Domestic Air Fuel Surcharge will change. Details on these changes can be found here: Fuel Surcharges

Delivery Area Surcharges

Effective June 1, 2025:

• The list of ZIP codes to which Area Surcharges apply will change. The current list of Area Surcharge ZIP codes can be found here.

Domestic Large Package Surcharge and Additional Handling Charge

Effective August 17, 2025:

Domestic Large Package Surcharge (LPS):

• LPS will no longer be applied to Domestic Packages based on length plus girth.
• Domestic Packages with a cubic size greater than 17,280 cubic inches will be subject to LPS
• Domestic Packages that weigh over 110 lbs will be subject LPS
• Other factors currently used to determine LPS applicability will remain unchanged.

Domestic LPS Commercial packages: Weight, Cubic Size, Length
Zone 2:        $205.00
Zone 3-4:     $225.00
Zone 5-6:     $250.00
Zone 7+:      $260.00

Domestic LPS Residential packages: Weight, Cubic Size, Length
Zone 2:        $240.00
Zone 3-4:     $260.00
Zone 5-6:     $297.50
Zone 7+:      $305.00

Domestic Additional Handling Charge (AHC):

• AHC will no longer be applied to Domestic Packages based on length plus girth.
• Domestic Packages with a cubic size greater than 8,640 cubic inches will be subject to AHC
• Other factors currently used to determine AHC applicability will remain unchanged.

Domestic         Zone 2       Zone 3-4     Zone 5-6       Zone 7+
Weight            $43.50      $47.50        $52.75          $55.00
Cubic Size       $28.00      $31.00        $36.00          $38.00
Length             $28.00      $31.00        $36.00          $38.00
Width              $28.00      $31.00        $36.00          $38.00
Packaging       $25.00      $29.00        $31.00          $31.50

International Collect on Delivery (ICOD) Fee for US Deliveries Announced

Effective June 2, 2025 UPS will introduce an International Collect on Delivery (ICOD) fee of $12 USD. This new fee will be charged to the U.S. consignee at delivery along with any unpaid duties, taxes, and other fees for the shipment.

This change does not apply if duties and taxes are billed to a UPS account number prior to delivery.

Consignees can also avoid the ICOD fee if they pay the applicable customs charges electronically, prior to delivery, through the UPS  International Pre Payment Application (IPPA).

IPPA can be accessed in two ways:

1. Shipment payment notification

   • Requires shipper to provide recipient’s contact information (name, email, phone)
   • Recipient must have already accepted opt-in terms for notifications from UPS

2. UPS.com tracking page results link

Rate Updates Effective June 2, 2025

Effective June 2, 2025:

• The applicable Zone will change for certain origin/destination ZIP code pairs. Revised zone charts will be available via UPS.com beginning June 2, 2025.

• Additional Handling and Large Package Surcharges for Zones 7 and above will change to:

  • Additional Handling Weight: $55.00
  • Additional Handling Dimensions (Length, Length + Girth or Width): $38.00
  • Additional Handling Packaging/Other: $31.50
  • Large Package Commercial: $260.00
  • Large Package Residential: $305.00

• Remote Area Zip Codes in the U.S. 48 contiguous states will apply a Remote Area Surcharge to Ground Saver packages.

• The Shipping Charge Correction Audit Fee will be the greater of:

  • $1.65 per package subject to a shipping charge correction during the applicable invoice period; or
  • 12% of the total amount of shipping charge corrections during the applicable invoice period.

• The Over Maximum Limits fee for packages will be changed to $1,775.

• A new International Collect on Delivery (ICOD) fee of $12.00 will be added effective June 2^nd

  • Billed to the U.S. Consignee for international shipments

• UPS rate updates help to support ongoing expansion and capability enhancements as we strive to maintain the high service levels you expect from UPS.

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*On-time performance reviews conducted by ShipMatrix for select UPS Air, UPS Ground, FedEx Express, FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery shipments during November and/or December, 2018-2024.

2018 data is from November 18th, 2018 to December 29th 2018
2019 data is from November 29th, 2019 to December 31st, 2019
2020 data is from November 22nd, 2020 to December 26th, 2020
2021 data is from November 28th, 2021 to December 24th, 2021
2022 data is from November 25th, 2022 to December 24th, 2022
2023 data is from December 1st, 2023 to December 23rd, 2023
2024 data is from December 1st, 2024 to December 31st, 2024