Shipping costs continue to rise

Shipping costs continue to rise. DHL and UPS are always inventing new surcharges, which are then increased further and further.

For example, there is a “peak surcharge” that is charged by the shipping companies in the event of a particularly high volume of parcels.

There is also a doorstep surcharge in northern countries such as Sweden and Finland.

Some surcharges are also simply recalculated afterwards if the parcel was a little larger or the weight was not quite right.

UPS writes that they will introduce the following surcharges from September 2024:

• Until January 31, 2025, a demand surcharge will be applied to parcels that require additional handling, as well as large parcels.

Sometimes it is not really tangible what is suddenly billed.

DHL then also argues with increased personnel costs, although there are only to be cushioned wage adjustments, which will also be drawn over several years. So rather the opposite.

And then, of course, the air surcharges for invented climate problems with CO2.

So far I have tried to compensate for all this. But what good is it if you let the shipping costs, where the increases actually happen, continue to run as “free shipping” and simply distribute the costs to the products or other things. This is also just window dressing and does not show the responsible person what is really going on.

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