David Faour

UPS recently announced it will be changing its dimensional pricing rules following a similar change from FedEx. Effective Jan. 8, the dimensional divisor will be reduced from 166 to 139 for all packages over one cubic foot, or 1,728 cubic inches. Packages below this threshold will continue to be subject to the current dimensional weight…

With each year’s General Rate Increase (GRI) announcement, shippers inevitably ask, “How much is this really going to cost me?” This year, it got quite a bit harder to answer that question for FedEx shippers. On Sept. 19, FedEx announced a GRI of 3.9 percent for Express and International, and 4.9 percent for Ground, Home…