Cheaper ground shipping rates

Cheaper ground rates for any business volume

Cheaper UPS Ground and FedEx Ground rates are the largest line on a lot of invoices, because ground is what ships when nobody is in a hurry. The Shipping Savers prices that service without a contract, a monthly fee, or a minimum. The one-cent fee is already in the label.

This is for anyone whose file is mostly ground: ecommerce to houses, wholesale to shops, replacement parts, and the ordinary parcel that does not need air.

Residential versus commercial

A commercial ground label and a residential ground label are not the same product. Residential delivery, and often a delivery-area surcharge, sit on top of transportation. If your export does not mark address type, the comparison will be wrong. Mark it, or send the invoice that already did.

Zone is the other half. Group the file by zone before you average anything. A single 'average shipping cost' hides the zones that are actually expensive.

What a ground comparison needs

• Origin and destination ZIP codes.
• UPS Ground or FedEx Ground, not a mix of air services labeled as shipping.
• Scale weight and the carton dimensions, because dimensional weight hits light boxes.
• The charge you paid, including fuel and residential lines, not just the base rate.
• At least a few weeks, so one heavy week does not become the story.

Ground files, zone by zone

Sort by zone before you look at an average cost per package. Zone 2 and zone 8 are not one ground product. A discount that is real on zone 2 and thin on zone 8 will look 'fine' in an average and expensive on the lanes you actually grew.

Mark residential. If the export does not have it, the invoice's residential fee is the mark. Rows with that fee do not get compared to commercial dock rates.

Dimensional weight on mailers and small boxes is the ecommerce version of the oversized problem. Weigh the billed weight column, not only the scale weight you typed into the store.

A few weeks is enough. A peak week alone is not, unless peak is the business.

How it works

1. Send a recent UPS or FedEx invoice, or a shipment export with ZIP codes, service, weight, dimensions and charges.
2. We compare the same packages and the same service. The price you see is the label price.
3. If the numbers work, you ship with UPS or FedEx on our account. Our fee is one cent per label, already included. There is no monthly fee and no contract.

What you pay us

The Shipping Savers fee is $0.01 per purchased label. It is already inside the price on the label. We do not add a monthly membership. Carrier charges, residential fees, fuel, delivery-area fees and other accessorials are part of that label price, not a second bill from us. Read the pricing page for the full explanation.

The only published before-and-after figure on this site is one real shipment: a 10 lb UPS Next Day Air package, 10 × 10 × 10 inches, New York to Los Angeles. It was $35.75 before and $16.78 with The Shipping Savers. That is not a rate for your lane. Your price comes from your own file.

Shopify and ShipStation

You can keep the software you already use to take orders. Shopify stays the store. ShipStation can stay the place where the team buys labels. On ShipStation, our Chrome add-on shows the rate next to the order, including when the order uses third-party billing. See discounted rates inside ShipStation and Shopify shipping rates.

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