UPS and FedEx are doubling down on their plan to systematically renegotiate customer contracts, with an attempt to eliminate guaranteed delivery times.

Breaking up may be hard to do. But breaking products during transit is all too easy.

This past June, the largest overnight delivery carriers, FedEx and UPS, announced that they would apply dimensional weight pricing to all shipments, effective January 2015. It is expected that shipping costs will increase 20 percent to 30 percent and affect over 70 percent of all shipments. What shippers are truly affected by the new pricing model? What can be done to avoid the cost increase?

DHL Global Mail is changing its name to DHL eCommerce.