UPS announces Sticker Shock !!

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Cybergirl posted the announced rate increases last year.

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...ups-announces-higher-shipping-rates-next.html

Okay, it was from a Fox news release. But it was handed to them by UPS.

It was complete BS !!!

I just got hit by the "new" rate. They have doubled it ! There is no 4 or 5% increase as stated in their news release.

AND, best of all. They have added a fuel surcharge. Which my local shipper says cost them a bundle after the holidays. Charges were retro, and "in fairness" UPS only charged them $1 per package delivered during that time frame.

Which they are unable to collect from their customers. Since some of the charges go back as far as October 2008.

UPS is collecting fuel surcharges, for last years losses.

 

HAD...and yesterday, Jan 6, 2009 aren't the same thing.

And yes, they have charged a fuel surcharge. But they have never come in after raising it again. And ask for back payments on past shipments, in an attempt to recover cost.

I ship regularly from this location...MY cost more than doubled, effective 01/06/2009

Normal cost, $13 and some change. Yesterday, it was $28.81

I can only tell you what the owner of the store told me. Whom I've known for over 30 years.

They are a designated drop spot, in a lost in space town. It's provided as a service by the store, for the locals. They collect no fees from UPS. But they do collect fees for UPS. If they're lucky, they see 2 or 3 outbound packages a day.

This is a you scratch my back deal. As they receive about 20 packages a day from UPS, it's a pharmacy.

So they had no choice. Pay the back dated fees, or start paying for all their inbound packages.