Announcement: ShipRx's 2025 General Rate Increase Report
Download NowAs a result of President Trump's desire to reshore U.S. manufacturing and increase revenues on imports, tariff rates hit their highest level in more than 100 years, increasing from 2.5% to an estimated 27%. Even businesses that didn't expect tariffs to impact them are feeling the pain of increased material costs, customs delays, administrative burdens, and shipping surprises.
Did you hear that? Shopify sellers just let out a collective cheer. As of May 26, DHL is pre-integrated into the Shopify Shipping platform.
In the ever-evolving world of logistics, it's often a game of "follow the leader"— especially when it comes to shipping rates. Recently, FedEx has followed in the footsteps of its rival, UPS, by implementing its own set of increased charges.
Priority Mail Next Day means you can now get packages to customers and other businesses overnight if they're within 150 miles of USPS's 60 regional Processing and Distribution Centers throughout the US.
After breaking things off in 2019, Amazon and FedEx rekindle their relationship with FedEx supporting deliveries of heavy and bulky Amazon packages
In previous years, UPS and FedEx have moved to reduce service in rural areas. Flying in the face of traditional carrier logic, Amazon recently announced that it would invest $4 billion by 2026 to expand its rural delivery network significantly.
Less than six months after implementing their last rate increase, UPS is raising some of their rates again on June 2, 2025.
In February, UPS announced that it would decrease the volume of Amazon parcels delivered by 50%. In the carrier's Q1 2025 earnings call, Executive Vice President and CFO Brian Dykes said that with the volume reduction, UPS is "undertaking the largest network reconfiguration in our history."
Effective April 21, 2025, DHL Express has temporarily suspended global business-to-consumer (B2C) shipments exceeding $800 to the United States.
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