What’s Driving Your 2027 Shipping Budget?
The annual General Rate Increase (GRI) used to be the main event in parcel budgeting. Not anymore.
In 2026, FedEx and UPS both announced a 5.9% GRI for the third consecutive year. But the biggest budget impacts came from elsewhere: rising fuel surcharges, peak-season demand fees increasing more than 20% year over year, new cubic-volume rules, and the first-ever USPS fuel surcharge, to name a few.
Carriers have shifted from predictable annual increases to continuous, targeted pricing designed to protect their margins. Yet most shippers are still budgeting just once a year.
Watch this on-demand webinar featuring Jack McCrum, Reveel’s Director of Optimization and Analytics, to learn why the GRI is only part of the story and how to get ahead of the charges that impact your bottom line.
You’ll walk away with:
- A clearer understanding of your cost exposure and how to build a budget you can explain and manage.
- Insight into where 2027 fees are concentrated and which charges will impact your shipping profile the most.
- The right questions to ask and strategies to build a more accurate, adaptable 2027 budget.