FedEx Will Shun Most Home Holiday Fees, Unlike UPS
- Package-delivery giants plan differing approaches to pricing
- Jump in online shopping fuels shipment of more oversized goods
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FedEx Corp. will forgo most holiday surcharges on home deliveries this year, drawing a contrast with plans for stepped-up fees at United Parcel Service Inc. amid a surge in online shopping.
Additional holiday charges will only be applied to packages that are big or bulky enough to require special handling, FedEx said in a statement Thursday. UPS’s extra levies will bump up the cost of residential deliveries by about 3 percent.