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Starting June 1st, and June 6th, for FedEx and UPS, The additional handling fee of $10.50 for oversized packages will now apply to packages over 48", instead of the 60"+ it was previously.

Bad news for those of us who regularly order big crap.

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Tucker

Well...cussy darn. They already have their rapacious "dimensional weight" thing going for them, when's it gonna end?

Is that 48" on the longest edge?

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Locost builder and adventurer, and founder (but no longer owner) of Kinetic Vehicles

yep! 48" on the longest edge.. good news is they've done away with dimensional weight on packages smaller than one cubic foot...

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Tucker

"Rapacious." Can I have the origin of the word, please?

Had to look that one up. Good one, Jack.

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Bill H
Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Me too. Whodda thunk that I come to this site to get my daily English lessons? The origin is not at all what I expected. I was sort of disappointed really:

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Chuck.

“Any suspension will work if you don’t let it.” - Colin Chapman

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Or my Wankel powered Locost log : over HERE

And don't forget my Cushman Truckster resto Locostusa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=17766

Gee... Not nearly as "juicy" as it first sounds... Either we're dirty old men (distinct possibility) or perhaps we harbor the same feeling about the prices one pays to send stuff via shippers... I'll go with choice "C", BOTH!

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JD, father of Quinn, Son of a... Build Log
Quinn the Slotus:Ford 302 Powered, Mallock-Inspired, Tube Frame, Hillclimb Special
"Gonzo and friends: Last night must have been quite a night. Camelot moments, mechanical marvels, Rustoleum launches, flying squirrels, fru-fru tea cuppers, V8 envy, Ensure catch cans -- and it wasn't even a full moon." -- SeattleTom

UPS and Fed/Ex are protected by the fact that the only option is worse. Corrupt Teamster (sorry redundancy) forced laws mean that the US is alone in the world by regulations of shipping by charts of content, the logic of which escapes rational analysis.

For example, when black out headlight covers (and headlight covers in clear as well) were a thing, GTS (GT Styling) had an issue that they had shipped them as residential skylights, saving about 80% on their freight bill, rather than pay to have the "tarriff" on headlight covers reduced in the charts used by LTL (less than a load) trucking firms.
Which worked in a sense, except when they reached the border to Canada there was issue with marking them so blatantly incorrectly.

So UPS operates due to corruption of the freight industry- probably quintupling its volume and profit.