Dry ice changes the shipment, not the carrier
Dry ice shipping is regulated because dry ice is solid carbon dioxide. Cartons have to vent. The weight you put in the box has to be declared the way UPS or FedEx currently require. Those rules are not optional and they are not something a cheaper account cancels.
What we do is price the UPS or FedEx service around that carton. Overnight and 2-day are the usual services, because dry ice is there to buy time. No monthly fee, no contract.
What to have ready
- The carrier's current dry-ice job aid, and a pack that matches it.
- Net dry-ice weight, separate from product weight, the way the label asks for it.
- Outer dimensions. Coolers plus ice get large.
- The service: overnight if the hold time requires it.
Before the rate, the carton has to be legal
Vent the carton. Airtight dry ice is a rejected or a dangerous shipment, and it is not a rating trick.
Use the carrier's current mark and the weight they want declared. Those instructions change. We will not paste a pound limit here and let it go stale.
The rate conversation starts after the carton is packed correctly. Overnight versus 2-day is then a hold-time question.
Cooler size still hits dimensional weight. Dry ice does not exempt the inches.
How it works
- Send a recent UPS or FedEx invoice, or a shipment export with ZIP codes, service, weight, dimensions and charges.
- We compare the same packages and the same service. The price you see is the label price.
- 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.
Questions
Do you tell us how much dry ice to use?
No. How much dry ice a product needs is your pack-out. How the carrier wants it marked, vented, and declared is in the carrier's current dry-ice instructions. We price the label.
Is there a contract, monthly fee, or minimum volume?
No contract, no monthly fee, and no minimums. The only fee from The Shipping Savers is one cent per label, and it is already included in the price you see.
Do the packages still ship with UPS and FedEx?
Yes. The same UPS and FedEx services, drivers, and tracking. What changes is the account the label is priced on.
How do I get a real price?
Send a recent invoice or a shipment export. We price your packages. We do not publish a table of sample lanes, because a lane that is not yours is not your price.