Sellers using AmazonAmazon’s shipping services will be required to pay additional fees related to fuel and logistics, the company said on Thursday (April 2). mail In the Amazon sales center.
The additional fee will be 3.5% and will be calculated on the fulfillment fees for each seller, and not on the selling price of his goods, according to the circular.
Starting April 17, Amazon will apply the surcharge to its worldwide fulfillment fees Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) in the United States and Canada as well Remote fulfillment with FBA From the United States to Canada, Mexico and Brazil, according to the post.
Starting May 2, the company will implement the additional fees Buy with Prime (BWP) in the United States as well Multi-channel fulfillment (MCF) in the United States and Canada, per publication.
Amazon said in the post that the additional fees are “significantly lower” than those charged by other major carriers, due to the work the company has done to reduce costs, and that the company will continue to evaluate additional fees as circumstances change.
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“Rising fuel and logistics costs have increased operating costs across the industry,” Amazon said in the post. “We have absorbed these increased costs to date, however, as with other major carriers, when costs remain high, we apply a temporary surcharge to our fulfillment fees to recover a portion of the actual cost increases we experience.”
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the US Postal Service (USPS) said on March 25 that it proposed adding a Additional cost For fuel and other transportation costs for some of its products for shipping packages. The proposal is subject to review by Postal Regulatory Committee (People’s Republic of China).
The proposed rate change would add 8% to base postage rates on certain services and would last from April 26 through January 17, USPS said at the time in a press release.
The Wall Street Journal I mentioned March 25 USPS proposed fuel surcharge would be the first ever imposed by the organization.
Separately, the Wall Street Journal I mentioned March 20 that fedex and UPS Fuel surcharges update every week, and during the first weeks of March, these surcharges amounted to up to 26% of the total shipping cost.
New York Times I mentioned Tuesday (March 31) that Fuel surcharge It is covered on the shipping cost for some items.
