Surcharge Calculator
Calculate your January 2026 surcharge impact
FedEx and UPS are changing how they classify heavy and bulky shipments. Many brands will see costs spike overnight.
Our free calculator shows how the new thresholds affect your products. And if the numbers look rough, we can help—through smarter packaging strategy or our negotiated carrier rates.
Hello there. I’m Tony Runyon. I am the chief client officer at Red Stag fulfillment. And if you were shipping products over one hundred and ten pounds or larger than ten cubic feet, you could be facing two hundred and fifty dollars or more in new surcharges per package starting this January, which could easily add millions in extra shipping costs for you. We’ve posted a little bit about this, but, but ultimately FedEx and UPS are adding new oversized triggers based on cubic volume and weight thresholds, for oversized and, additional handling. So there are products that were never classified as oversized before that are suddenly going to qualify. So this could be bed frames, office chairs, small appliances, fitness equipment, or common products that have shipped just fine up until now. Our team at Red Stag has put together a calculator to help you see exactly what the cost impact will be for your specific products. And I’m going to walk through just a few examples so you can see how it works and what kind of impacts we’re talking about. So, we set up the ability for you to type in length, width, and height, as well as the weight of your package, and then your expected monthly volume just as a way to determine what the impact will be. So what I’ve done here is entered in ten by ten by ten, forty pounds. This would be, you know, a small kitchen appliance potentially, or a case of ceramic tile. And as I scroll down here, you’ll see that there are no surcharges that will be applying to a package like this, which is what we’d expect. The length and girth are going to be under the one zero five. You don’t have a side, a specific side that’s going to be extended beyond forty eight inches or thirty inches. And that cubic volume number, is low as well. But let’s take another example and say that we’re going to look at a package that’s forty eight by twenty by ten. So this would be, you know, a package that may be, weights or barbells, something like that, or a disassembled bed frame, for example, we’re going to make it one hundred and twelve pounds. So this package you’re going to see is going to have a much larger potential impact. These, these estimates are going to be based on published rates. So this is a three point two million dollars impact at a thousand packages a month, for example. And what we’re seeing here is even though this is below the one hundred and thirty inches of length and girth that, would typically apply to oversize and it’s below the cubic volume threshold that has been pushed out, the one hundred and twelve pounds is now going to trigger an oversize fee. And so previous to this, this package would have been assessed the AHS weight surcharge, which published rate is fifty two point seven five dollars but will now be charged at an oversized charge of three twenty dollars which is a difference of two sixty seven dollars per package. Let’s just do one more example. If we keep these dimensions, we’ll do forty eight by twenty by twenty, but let’s lower the weight to eighty pounds. So this may be something like a, an office chair or some piece of flat pack furniture. As I scroll, you’ll see similar impact to the last one. And the reason, length and girth is below one hundred and thirty inches, which today would not qualify this package for oversize. It is not over the one hundred and ten pound mark that we saw in the last example, but what you do see is the cubic volume is now going to trigger this oversize fee as it’s nineteen thousand two hundred cubic inches. And they’re layering in this new seventeen thousand two hundred and eighty cubic inch threshold, for cubic volume, to then be hit with oversize. So just wanted to run through a couple of examples there. As you’ll see, we’ve got a few areas where you can type in your contact information. You can get in touch with us. The team here at Red Stag would be happy, to, to talk to you and help you understand what is the impact and are there ways to mitigate the impact here, whether that be through splitting your packages, reducing the package dimensions in some way, or, you know, are there areas to be able to negotiate aggressive rates on some of these surge charges so that you’re able to ensure your business can thrive in twenty twenty six and beyond. So please do reach out, and I hope this is going to be helpful for you.
January 2026
Oversize/AHS Surcharge
Impact Calculator
Calculate how the January 2026 UPS/FedEx surcharge changes will impact your shipping costs
