Shipping · UPS and FedEx
Your carrier bills you by the box. Who checks the boxes?
$3,176.40 a month
$38,116.80 a year
Illustrative account: Sunset Mercantile, Las Vegas, a fictional store. A real-sized month built from one six-shipment pattern.
SHIP TO
CUSTOMER · LAS VEGAS NV
SERVICENEXT DAY AIR
ZONE8
WT22 LB
TRACKING S-005-01
August 2026 · example
360 shipments. 240 billed wrong.
240 tagged
Tag positions follow the example's pattern; the count is exact.
One box, opened · S-005
Two errors on one package.
Wrong discount. Wrong fuel rate. And fuel is charged on the discounted price, so the two compound.
$19.18 on one box
Next Day Air · zone 8 · 22 lb · published $140.00
Billed
30% off$98.00
fuel 16%$15.68
Total$113.68
Your agreement
40% off$84.00
fuel 12.5%$10.50
Total$94.50
The invoice
Six lines, sixty times over.
Invoice total $20,158.20. The agreement says $16,981.80.
SAMPLE INVOICE · ILLUSTRATIVE · SUNSET MERCANTILE · AUGUST 2026
- S-001Groundzone 512 lb$19.52
- S-002Groundzone 48 lb$34.15
- S-0032nd Day Airzone 715 lb$90.38
- S-004Groundzone 26 lb$20.24
- S-005Next Day Airzone 822 lb$113.68
- S-0062nd Day Airzone 510 lb$58.00
… the same six, × 60
INVOICE TOTAL$20,158.20
The tally
Four leaks. $3,176.40 a month.
120 boxes
Discount short of the agreement
$1,117.80
120 boxes
Fuel above the contracted rate
$336.60
120 boxes
Residential Surcharge, waived by contract
$642.00
60 boxes
Address Correction, waived by contract
$1,080.00
Some boxes carry two errors; 240 boxes in all.
S-004 carries a delivery area surcharge of $4.20. The agreement allows it, so it isn't flagged.
+42.4%
The prices keep moving
+42%
FedEx's announced average rate increases: up 5.9% in 2022, 6.9% in 2023, 5.9% a year since, and 5.9% again from January 2027. The discount in your agreement is taken off a moving number.
Sources: FedEx rate changes (2027); Supply Chain Dive on 2023, 2025 and 2026; PartnerShip on 2022 and 2024.
PROOF OF DELIVERY
Received by
Send one month's invoice.
We check every box against your agreement.
We delete the file once its figures are read. Nothing up front on a one-off review: 35% of 12 months of savings, once. No finding, no fee. See Pricing.