189422 Resource 165493 94146 94146 1194890868431 1194891016972 Controlled Parcel Shipping Costs to Rise

UPS 2008 rate increases have been released for Ground and Ground Hundredweight services. Do you know how the increase will impact your parcel spend?

UPS and FedEx have both announced the increases for 2008 published rates which will be an average of 4.9 percent increase on all shipments.  How will the increases affect your transportation spend?  Benchmarking your current rates and assessing your contract will help you to determine if you are ready for the increases.  Negotiating the contract for long term with published rate increase in mind will alleviate any high increases.<a href="http://www.ups.com/pressroom/us/press_releases/press_release/0,1088,4938,00.html">UPS announced</a> that it will be raising its ground and ground hundred weight service rates by an average of 4.9 percent in 2008.  This announcement came after FedEx stated that the air rate will rise by an average 4.9 percent.  UPS will be using the same increase for air express service and US origin international shipments as FedEx. UPS also announced increases in accessorial charges<ul style="MARGIN-TOP: 0in" type="square"><li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in">Delivery Area surcharge for Residential and commercial increase $0.1 Remote area surcharge in areas of <state w:st="on" />Hawaii</state /> and <state w:st="on" /><place w:st="on" />Alaska</place /></state /> </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in">Residential surcharges increase </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in">Address correction charges increase by $1.00 </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in">To see more accessorial charge updates and more details on the ones above go to <a href="http://www.ups.com/rates/surcharges.html" target="_blank">UPS.com</a></li></ul> 10 application/xml false 2008 Parcel rates Parcel Transportation trends UPS UPS rate increase Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 Establish 208.105.4.154 false true false false true 187565 false false true false false false true 165493 blog blogsite/ChinaSupplyChain/web