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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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What package deliveries? I usually have to go to the post office to pick up my packages because the carrier won’t bring them to the house or drop them at the gate when they don’t fit in the mailbox.
I check my mail about once every 2 weeks. Then I come inside and toss 98% of it in the trash can.
Because it’s back being close to what it was under the Biden admin?
A lot of people don’t realize that USPS doesn’t deliver to tens of millions of homes in America, either you have to go to the post office for your daily mail or at best, the outdoor central post box structure somewhere close to your home or trailer.
When gas gets back to a buck a gallon, that surcharge disappears, no?
So Forever aint Forever ?
A lot of people don’t realize that USPS doesn’t deliver to tens of millions of homes
Wrong yes they do
Don’t like it, but if they get the increase, they should reduce rates once fuel cost go down. No one ever does but its time to make sure there is a return to previous pricing when the reason for the increase is no longer
Me too.
The USPS is an anachronism and should be eliminated. Just because the Constitution authorizes it doesn’t mean the Constitution mandates it.
I can go 2 months without any real mail.
USPS is like TSA without the body scans.
“We move things from place to place and get paid to do it”
You think the USPS still delivers to all individual front doors or the mailbox at the end of the sidewalk?
What are you talking about? They don’t.
The USPS will be gone within a year. This is just putting off the inevitable, and another way to flush money down the toilet.
Consumers making online purchases usually pick the cheapest shipping. USPS is going to lose business by jacking up rates.
I swear they make junk mail a priority.
Old numbers, but here they are.
“according to Census Bureau data from 2018, the most recent year available. About six-in-ten of the agency’s employees – including mail carriers, postal clerks, and mail sorters and processors – are non-Hispanic white (57%), compared with 78% of the overall U.S. workforce. Around a quarter (23%) of Postal Service workers are black, 11% are Hispanic and 7% are Asian. In contrast, black Americans make up 13% of the national workforce, Hispanics 17% and Asian Americans 6%.”
If you live in D.C. then at least 74% of your mail people are female.
Maybe use mail trucks to return soda bottles to Ohio or something.
Where do you think most USPS revenue comes from?
People have pitched a fit when things like Saturday delivery and closing low-volume posts get proposed, but it’s simple economy of scale stuff.
Personally? I’d be in favor winding down the USPS... anymore, Christmas cards and the occasional letter are the only meaningful things I get via mail.
Doubt it will happen — everybody pitches a fit whenever reasonable wind-downs are proposed.
Everybody loves the romance of pony express and the idea of 10 million people in NYC and 2 people in Timbuktu paying the same price to send letters to each other... but it’s just really not a financially viable model.
I suppose, given I rarely use the USPS - it’s only by proxy (some places do use USPS to deliver packages and I have zero doubt the fuel surcharge will get passed along one way or another) this matters to me...
So long as we don’t get to more taxpayer bailouts and subsidies? Don’t really care about this.
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