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UPS Holiday Surcharges – What you need to know

By Last updated on: October 4, 2023

How will UPS holiday season surcharges affect your business this year? From October 1, 2023, through January 13, 2024, UPS will apply peak surcharges to shipments that qualify as oversized, unauthorized, or require additional handling and existing charges. FedEx also implemented peak season surcharge increases as well. Check out this blog for the differences.

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Peak Season Holiday Surcharge Increases


Surcharge Name

January 15, 2023, to September 30, 2023

October 1, 2023, to January 13, 2024

Additional Handling Surcharge

Normal Charge + $ 3.50

Normal Charge + $ 6.90

Over Maximum Limits Charge

Normal Charge

Normal Charge + $ 410.00

Large Package Surcharge

Normal Charge + $ 40.00

Normal Charge + $ 74.90

A UPS Peak Surcharge will apply to packages that require Additional Handling and Large Packages for all U.S. domestic, U.S. import, and export shipments. The peak surcharge applies for qualifying customers:

  1. have been billed for more than 1,000 total packages in any week after February 2020, or
  2. have been billed for more than 10 combined Large Packages or packages requiring Additional Handling in any week after February 2020, or
  3. signed up for a new UPS account after December 31, 2020

UPS Residential Peak Surcharge

An additional peak surcharge will apply to certain UPS Air Residential, UPS Ground Residential, and UPS SurePost packages. If a customer shipped more than 20,000 packages during any week following October 2021, the following charges will be added to the shipment cost. These charges will apply from January 15, 2023 to October 28, 2023

Service Level105% to 125%125% to 150% over 150%
All Other UPS Air Residential $0.40 per package$0.50 per package$0.60 per package
UPS Next Day Air Residential$0.40 per package$0.50 per package$0.60 per package
UPS Ground Residential$0.40 per package$0.50 per package$0.60 per package
UPS SurePost$0.40 per package$0.50 per package$0.60 per package

UPS holiday surcharges apply to all UPS customers. Not just those shipping packages in the e-commerce space. Parcel shippers must understand their shipping profiles to ensure their agreement is fair. Having accurate data will protect your bottom line and reveal shipping intelligence to lower costs. Contact our parcel experts to gain valuable data and insight that will help understand how these increases in transportation impact your bottom line.

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Brian Gibbs founded Refund Retriever in 2006 while running his first eBay-based business and seeing the shortcomings of other shipment auditing companies. Refund Retriever's primary focus is FedEx and UPS parcel invoice auditing. After graduating from Texas A&M University in 2001, he graduated from the University of Houston in 2004 with a JD and MBA. Gibbs has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, and other publications discussing parcel auditing, shipping, e-commerce, and more. Learn more at www.refundretriever.com or call (800) 441-8085 for more information.

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