Industry Topics: Dimensional Weight

The popularity of online shopping has given new meaning to oversize and large packages. From a week’s groceries to refrigerators, consumers can order and receive just about anything from the comfort of their own home. To keep up with these massive packages, Fed Ex^® and UPS^® are adding surcharges to handle what are often cumbersome and heavy deliveries.

With warehouse space becoming ever more valuable, every cubic foot counts. Gone are the days when seat-of-the-pants space management and a tape measure got you by. Add to that the recent introduction of dimension-based shipping rates by FedEx®, UPS® and other carriers – which leaves many...

UPS recently announced a change to their DIM policy that more closely aligns with FedEx’s recent change to the measurement of Dimensional Weight.  Currently, both carriers use a calculation of length x width x height divided by 166 inches for domestic shipments, with international shipments...

It is a script that the shipping industry knows well – parcel shipping giants, FedEx^® and UPS^® announce their rate increases in lock-step. This time however, there are some noteworthy scene changes. UPS started the trend by announcing their annual General Rate Increase (GRI) a little earlier...

Dimensional weight pricing is a major source of increased revenue for shipping carriers.

Carriers discovered they were delivering boxes that were much larger than required for the efficient delivery of the products they contained. This outsized box phenomenon caused shipping carrier’s vehicles...

On June 6, UPS® customers can expect to pay an extra charge on shipping packages, measuring 48 inches or longer. 

DIM Weight 101

Watch this video for a quick tutorial on how DIM weight pricing can impact your parcel shipping costs. For more dimensional weight resources, including a calculator, go to dimweightresources.com. 

6 Packaging Tips to Help You Save

How can you change your packaging to avoid DIM weight costs? Watch this video for 6 packaging tips to help you save. For more dimensional weight resources, including a calculator, go to dimweightresources.com. 

Services for Saving on DIM Pricing

In addition to packaging options, there are also services that can help reduce your DIM expenses. Watch this video to see what those are.  For more dimensional weight resources, including a calculator, go to dimweightresources.com.

Most parcel shipping carriers have changed how they calculate the weight—and, by extension, the price the shipper pays—of packages shipped. In 2014, major shipping carriers announced a dimensional weight pricing model, commonly called DIM, for air and ground parcel shipping services. Shipping...