Amazon Imposes 3.5% Fuel Surcharge For Many Online Merchants
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/04/02/2052252/amazon-imposes-35-fuel-surcharge-for-many-online-merchants
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> Amazon will [1]start charging sellers who use its shipping services a 3.5% "fuel and logistics" surcharge later this month, joining the ranks of shipping companies raising prices as the war in Iran pushes oil prices higher. The fees take effect on April 17 for customers of the company's Fulfillment by Amazon service -- which is used by many of the independent sellers who list their products on Amazon's retail sites -- in the US and Canada. Items shipped by Amazon on behalf of merchants who sell on their own sites or at other retailers will carry the surcharge beginning May 2.
"Elevated costs in fuel and logistics have increased the cost of operating across the industry," Ashley Vanicek, an Amazon spokesperson, said on Thursday. "We have absorbed these increases so far, but similar to other major carriers, when costs remain elevated we implement temporary surcharges to partially recover these costs."
Vanicek notes that the fee will apply to the sum Amazon charges to ship an item, not the product's sale price.
Last month, USPS announced that it would impose its [2]first-ever fuel surcharge on packages .
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-02/amazon-imposes-3-5-fuel-surcharge-for-many-online-merchants
[2] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/03/25/2258234/postal-service-to-impose-its-first-ever-fuel-surcharge-on-packages
Son, are you winning? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, are you? Come on who's tired of winning?
Trump lowered military recruitment standards which is the first step towards a draft.
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first step towards a draft.
U scared bro?
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> U scared bro?
He's probably not scared enough. Anyone old enough to remember Vietnam knows how the song goes from here. "We must throw another batch of American men into the meat grinder, otherwise the lives of the previous batch will have been sacrificed in vain", and repeat ad infinitum.
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> Well, are you? Come on who's tired of winning? Trump lowered military recruitment standards which is the first step towards a draft.
Yeah, his SOTU speech where he babbled endlessly about how people were begging him to stop winning is starting to feel a little too real at the moment.
The babbling wasn't the problem (Score:2)
Well no more than usual. The problem is that he couldn't even stick to a simple message. About half the speech was about how the war is ending and they're bringing peace and the other half the speech was about killing every single person in Iran.
I found out that the reason Joe Biden looked so rough is because he stutters and when you saw him doing those long pauses that was him having to pause to get his stutter under control before he spoke. In his old age it came back after he had gotten it under con
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> Well no more than usual. The problem is that he couldn't even stick to a simple message. About half the speech was about how the war is ending and they're bringing peace and the other half the speech was about killing every single person in Iran. I found out that the reason Joe Biden looked so rough is because he stutters and when you saw him doing those long pauses that was him having to pause to get his stutter under control before he spoke. In his old age it came back after he had gotten it under control for a long time. So all that crap about sleepy Joe was literally just a man with a mild speech impediment struggling with it. Of course none of that was reported by the news media... Meanwhile Trump was talking about a bill he wanted to pass and mid sentence started to talk about a imaginary person named Bill. This is a real thing that happened. Never mind the bizarre post he just made about Jasmine Crockett being related to Davy Crockett.
Anybody with a modicum of brain power themselves knows Trump's been off his rocker for years. The worst part with the comparisons to Biden is that Biden built a cabinet of people he trusted as advisors, and as people that could help shape policy and implement it. Trump surrounds himself with sycophants that spend most of their time worried about how best to kiss the royal ass, and then still ends up firing them for not kissing it enough, and refuses to listen to anyone with a clue on any subject.
And it's ge
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Military service would do you a lot of good.
Charge on what, exactly (Score:2)
Is this a 3.5% charge on the value of the sale? Or on just the actual shipping charges? Because if it is the former, it is just a money grab because the value of the total sale has nothing to do with how much it costs to ship. That is determined by size and weight.
Can't read the referenced article, and other articles I tried don't say.
Note that surcharges are usually temporary for what is expected to be temporary unusual market swings. Amazon did this in the past, in April 2022 and then dropped it in 20
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> Is this a 3.5% charge on the value of the sale? Or on just the actual shipping charges? Because if it is the former, it is just a money grab because the value of the total sale has nothing to do with how much it costs to ship. That is determined by size and weight.
> Can't read the referenced article, and other articles I tried don't say.
> Note that surcharges are usually temporary for what is expected to be temporary unusual market swings. Amazon did this in the past, in April 2022 and then dropped it in 2023 as prices normalized again. And that was a 5% charge, not 3.5%.
The pessimist in me says this is one of those temporary fees that will get removed...never. It's the airlines' way of boosting ticket prices without boosting ticket prices themselves. Think the fee will get dropped once fuel prices go down? No, neither do I.
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Opps, I got sidetracked and jumped to airline fees...but my point stands. The fuel surcharge isn't going to go away if/when fuel prices come down.
Call it what it is (Score:2)
A Trump surcharge. Gasoline is now averaging $4 a gallon thanks to his and Israel’s war.
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They have a fleet of electric planes too?
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The Amazon semis I see going down I-5 don't look electric. There are plenty of the Rivian-made Amazon vans electric vans though.
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And 90% of it comes from China on boats powered by (fill in the blank)