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Posted on 03/26/2026 8:12:33 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
The U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday said it is seeking to impose a temporary 8% fuel surcharge for package and express mail deliveries to deal with rising transportation costs, which include higher oil prices as a result of the Iran war.
If approved by the Postal Regulatory Commission, the surcharge would take effect April 26 and remain in place until Jan. 17, 2027, the Postal Service said in a notice on its website.
The 8% surcharge would apply to postage on Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, USPS Ground Advantage, and Parcel Select products. First-class stamps and other mail services would not be affected.
Oil prices have jumped more than 40% since Feb. 28, when the United States and Israel attacked Iran.
FedEx and UPS, two major package shippers, for years have imposed fuel surcharges on deliveries. Those surcharges have sharply increased since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, which caused the price of oil to rise by more than 40%.
“This temporary price adjustment will provide needed flexibility for the Postal Service by helping to ensure that the actual costs of doing business are covered, as required by Congress,” the Postal Service said in its announcement.
“Transportation costs have been increasing, and our competitors have reacted with a number of surcharges,” the notice said.
“We have steadfastly avoided surcharges and this charge is less than one-third of what our competitors charge for fuel alone, so even with this change, the Postal Service continues to offer great value in shipping with some of the lowest rates in the industrialized world.”
CNBC has reached out to the Postal Regulatory Commission for comment on the Postal Service’s request.
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100% of all packages from the USPS are delivered 1 to 2 weeks late.
Horse manure look it up
On first class mail it does.
we had the same problem and the post office was 18 MILES away, they wouldn’t even bring them to the house and try. just a slip “come get it” that would be handed directly to me.
amazon got enough of them back that they finally figured out they should use FedEx or UPS who would leave the package at my door.
It’s already falling, yesterday diesel on mudflap was 4.99 a gallon, today its 4.29.
My wrecker still has 3.00 fuel in it’s tank but I have been watching because the rollback is getting low.
wrong. No they don’t.
They REFUSE to deliver anything to my business. they put it in a mail box down the road (where many people have to go to get their mail)
It’s not safe they claim. huh? We have a HUGE parking lot you can turn around in and not even need reverse.
I have looked at homes for sale with no mail box and asked “where do they leave the mail?” oh everyone in town has to go to the hardware store and that is where their PO box is.
I know it comes from junk mail. A few years ago I sent a priority package to my son who lives two hours east of me outside Albany. It ended up taking 10 days to get there because all packages mailed here, are routed west to Rochester, NY for sorting, then sent on to their destination. I called the postal office here, and complained. He gave me the usual line that they were short-staffed. I told him that was funny, because you guys always seem to have enough staff to deliver junk mail and Amazon packages. The moron told me that USPS prioritizes Amazon packages before their own priority. Now I see that USPS and Amazon are close to splitting.
Maybe if the postal service got rid of some of the fat at the top, they wouldn't always be broke, or have to keep raising rates, and now apply a fuel surcharge.
Need to rethink their business model. They should go to an odd or even day delivery system to increase efficiency. With how things are today no one would even notice.
half of mail is sales flyers. The other half is from outlets that haven't been able to move to email.
LOL! It took those USPS idiots 30 DAYS to get a piece of ‘Certified Mail’ from East Tennessee to Maine. I got the same ‘short-staffed’ BS from the clerks. Having given up on USPS, I went to UPS. It took UPS 40 HOURS to get an envelope of duplicate documents to the same address. Natch, the mailman delivered the ORIGINAL a few days later.
That is two stupid nonresponse posts you have made, why not explain what in the world you are talking about?
Cluster Box Unit
USPS is long overdue for an overhaul.
The USPS’s main goal now seems to be to aid democrats in stealing elections.
I don’t get home mail delivery. My neighbors don’t get home mail delivery.
In NYC, the postman sometimes just drops the mail bundle in the vestibule and tenants have to sift through it.
have you ever tracked a letter? or package?
If I mail a letter to a town seven miles away, first it'll go to albany (55 miles away) then to the town.
A letter mailed to NYC travels to NJ then to CT then to NYC. Why the need to go to CT? it's out of the way.
Perhaps USPS should reconsider their routes and thus would save on gas.
Porch pirates not effected.
A temporary surcharge? Is that like the Spanish-American War surcharge for phone service?
I heard a senior postal official say that if the Post Office didn’t have direct mail advertising to deliver it would be out of business... so, problem solved.
https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis-and-how-to-fix-it/
In 2006, Congress passed a law that imposed extraordinary costs on the U.S. Postal Service. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) required the USPS to create a $72 billion fund to pay for the cost of its post-retirement health care costs, 75 years into the future. This burden applies to no other federal agency or private corporation.
If the costs of this retiree health care mandate were removed from the USPS financial statements, the Post Office would have reported operating profits in each of the last six years. This extraordinary mandate created a financial “crisis” that has been used to justify harmful service cuts and even calls for postal privatization. Additional cuts in service and privatization would be devastating for millions of postal workers and customers.
In its December 2018 report, President Trump’s Task Force on the United States Postal Service reaffirmed current rules related to postal retiree health benefits, calling it “part of a mandate for postal self-sustainability.” However, the Task Force also recognized that the aggressive and accelerated timetable for funding the mandate has proved unworkable. They call for past deficits to be “restructured with the payments re-amortized with new actuarial calculation based on the population of employees at or near retirement age.”
While this would have a modest positive effect by spreading payments over a longer period of time, it does little to address the underlying problem caused by USPS being burdened with a mandate that no other federal agency or private corporation faces.
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