Your Guide to the Impact of 10 Years of Annual Rate Increases
You budgeted for this year's 5.9% increase. What you didn't budget for is what ten years of "predictable" increases has already done to your baseline. Inside, ShipSigma applies that compounding to spend like yours, and shows you the cost the January announcement never mentions:
- Why 5.9% is the most flattering possible way to describe increases engineered to land hardest on the shippers with the least leverage to push back
- The floor rate that climbed nearly 100% since 2016, quietly making your hard-won base discount worthless on every lightweight package you ship
- How a "predictable" 5.5% a year compounds into a 71% cost increase, and why no one in your finance team ever ran that number
- The surcharges rising faster than the GRI itself, none of which appear in the announcement but all of which appear on your invoice
- What the average ShipSigma client cuts from parcel spend without switching carriers or touching a single service level
