Tune into our on-demand webinar to learn about the fast changing accessorial landscape, new charges on the horizon and how to keep costs in check.

Last week on October 28, 2025 United Parcel Service (UPS) announced its third-quarter 2025 earnings. The subsequent earnings call offered a view into the many variables influencing the shipping rates and strategies of the world’s largest parcel carrier.

Notably, one point was of particular interest to shippers: despite UPS’ planned glidedown of its Amazon business and reduction in “lower yielding e-commerce volume,” the company’s revenue per piece, or RPP, grew by 9.8% in the third quarter.

There are of course numerous variables that influence RPP. But one factor in particular has proven to be one of the most powerful ways for carriers to increase RPP. That lever is accessorial charges. 

Today, accessorial charges, additional charges that occur off of carriers’ rate cards and independent of the general rate increases, are being used more often, and with greater effect, than ever before. They are also fundamentally impacting shippers, not only because they can so dramatically impact shipping costs, but also because they are increasingly being introduced with little or no warning.

And if that wasn’t enough, definitional changes are increasingly giving accessorials more teeth, with Delivery Area Surcharges being a great example. Originally designed to cover the extra shipping costs associated with deliveries in remote areas, delivery area surcharges are now broadly applicable – something we began to see in 2024. Recently even more zip codes were added, making the resulting surcharge an important factor to consider in shipments not just to isolated addresses, but also some of the nation’s busiest metropolitan areas. 

Fuel surcharges are another example. UPS increased its fuel surcharge tables more than seven times since January of 2024.

For shippers, the resulting reality is that it has never been more important not only to understand the fast evolving accessorial landscape, but to also to be ready to take action to mitigate what can amount to significant accessorial-driven cost increases. That is why we are pleased to offer our recent webinar, “How to Predict & Analyze 2026 Accessorials,” on demand. 

Originally presented to a packed audience at this year’s PARCEL Forum, this impactful webinar with Reveel’s Jack McCrum and Quinn Nelson was updated by request for a repeat performance in late October. Now we’re pleased to offer it on-demand to any shippers who missed out, or need a refresher as we near the holiday shopping season. 

To learn what accessorials-related cost increases are on the horizon and gain proven insights on how to keep them in check be sure to tune in. Click here to watch the webinar on-demand.