Will this give heartburn to some e-companies?
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UPS rates skyrocket
Costs for some services
nearly doubling today
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By Parker Chivers
¸ 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
Many of the 1.7 million United Parcel Service customers will be shocked today to learn that the cost for shipping certain packages has increased as much as 81 percent as the 2000 rate schedule goes into effect.
The only notice of the increase the shipping giant provided its customers was buried in the text on page 140 of the 152-page UPS 2000 Rate and Service Guide, distributed to customers in mid-January. Most customers are unaware of the change, but many of those who have stumbled upon it are furious.
The increase will apply only to certain types of packages, and is the result of a change to a long-standing policy regarding so-called "oversized" parcels. The term oversized refers to packages that, because of their bulky size, are billed at a higher rate.
Like most shipping companies, UPS bases its rates on the weight of a parcel, but at some point, volume must be taken into consideration, and when bulky, lightweight packages are shipped, the cargo is less profitable. To compensate for this, UPS years earlier implemented an "oversized" policy. Under this long-standing policy, if a package's dimensions (length-plus-girth) exceeds an 84-inch limit, it is billed at the rate of 30 pounds, or the actual package weight, whichever is greater. With the policy change, UPS has created two classes of oversized packages, "Oversized 1" (OS1) and "Oversized 2" (OS2).
Under this new and virtually unknown policy, any package that(cont)
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