Our rates and surcharges
Our rates and surcharges
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Whether your shipments are heavy or lightweight, urgent or less time-sensitive, FedEx has a solution for you — with competitive rates for reliable services to get your shipments to their destination on time.
Rates below take effect 6 January 2025.
Value-added services and surcharges
Our value-added services let you customise FedEx services to your specific needs. Non-standard shipments or additional services may incur charges on top of standard transportation costs.
Value-added services and surcharges remain the same for 2025, except:
AHS-Weight
- Updated from £15/package to £30/package.
Applies to packages or pieces with actual weight greater than 31kg. (Packages over this weight require manual intervention to avoid crushing other packages or injuring employees.)
Dimensions
There are no changes, but we would like to remind you of our maximum allowable dimensions:
- Parcels: 274cm on the longest side, or 420cm in length and girth
- Freight: 302cm on the longest side
FedEx shipments exceeding these limits may not be accepted into our network and could be refused by the driver or returned to the sender. Even if your shipment meets the maximum allowable dimensions, other dimension-based surcharges such as AHS-Dimension, Oversize Charge, or AHS-Freight may still apply if relevant.
Contact Special Services to discuss possibilities for shipments that exceed our maximum allowable dimensions.
NOTE: We reserve the right to assess Additional Handling charges for packages or freight handling units that require special handling or that require FedEx to apply additional packaging during transit. To avoid AHS, please see our packaging guidelines.
Questions? Please refer to our FAQ.
Introduction of surcharges for Dangerous Goods transported via FedEx® Regional Economy and FedEx® Regional Economy Freight. For details, see Value-added services and surcharges (PDF).
Shipments picked up or delivered to remote and less accessible locations are assessed an Out-of-Pickup-Area (OPA) or Out-of-Delivery-Area (ODA) surcharge.
We are updating the postal codes where these surcharges apply.
- Current global postal code list (applicable until 12 January 2025)
- New postal codes (applicable from 13 January 2025)
Additional changes to value-added services and surcharges, effective 13 January 2025
- Packages that qualify for AHS – Dimension will be subject to 18 kg minimum billable weight.
IMPORTANT: If a FedEx package is subject to an Oversize Charge or AHS-Packaging, and also meets the criteria for AHS – Dimension, the minimum billable weight of 18 kg will still apply. This means that this condition is enforced even if AHS - Dimension itself is not charged.
Effective 13 January 2025, a charge of €1.35 per shipment is assessed on U.S. import shipments in connection with the processing of those shipments for clearance.
Ancillary clearance services
In early 2025, a new ancillary clearance charge called Disbursement Forwarding Fee will apply if third-party payor is selected for Duties and Taxes (D&T), and the payor is outside the destination country or territory. The fee is £15.00 or 2.5% of the D&T amount, whichever is higher.
Learn more here.
Domestic Surcharges
Transportation costs may be affected by other additional surcharges due to the nature of the shipment. All surcharges are exclusive of VAT.
Declared Value, previously known as Enhanced transit liability (ETL). ETL will now be called ‘declared value’ on the shipping screen. It will be available on all services at £6 for each £1,000 of cover required. Carriage value gives you the option of paying for extra cover, for example if your shipment is lost, damaged or delayed. Find out more here.
Domestic Direct Signature Required
FedEx will obtain a signature from someone at the delivery address or reattempt delivery the following business day if no one is at the address. Read more here.
£2.00
Domestic Adult Signature Required
FedEx will obtain a signature from any person of legal adult age* at the delivery address.
£2.50
* Legal age will vary depending on the destination country and is governed by the local legal age of an adult, not the legal age to purchase specific products (i.e. alcohol). This delivery option is not available in all destination countries.
Shipments picked up from or delivered to remote and less accessible locations are assessed as Out-of-Pick-Up-Area (OPA) or Out-of-Delivery-Area (ODA) surcharge. Please refer to the list of postal codes or cities where this surcharge applies.
| Intra-Country OPA/ODA | Isle of Wight | £12.29 | per shipment | Saturday service is not available. |
| Channel Islands | £18.14 | per shipment | Alderney, Sark and Herm. | |
| Scottish Offshore Islands | £22.08 | per shipment | Next Day Service is not available. |
| Dom Print Return Label | £12.29 | per shipment | This collection is charged at the applicable delivery rate from Zone 2 to the Zone in which the collection is to be made plus the additional surcharge. |
| Dom Email Return Label | £12.29 | per shipment | If the collection is made within Zone 2 it will be charged at the applicable delivery rate from Zone 2 to the Zone it is to be delivered plus the additional surcharge. |
A surcharge might apply to a delivery performed on a Saturday. Service availability may vary according to place of collection and destination. When Saturday is a normal business day at the destination country, Saturday Delivery does not have to be marked on the Air Waybill, and the surcharge does not apply. Please contact Customer Services for details.
£26.63
Effective 11th March 2024. Additional Handling Surcharges (AHS) apply to non-standard shipments that cannot be sorted on our automated machinery and will be charged at £12.95 per item.
AHS can be applicable for a shipment due to its weight, size or packaging. We attempt to optimise the way we handle packages within our network so packages requiring additional manual handling processes are subject to an additional charge.
Additional Handling Surcharge – Dimension
Applies to packages exceeding one of the following:
- Length greater than 121cm
- Height greater than 76cm
- Polybags greater than 76cm in any dimensions
Additional Handling Surcharge – Packaging
Applies to packages that are:
- Polystyrene
- Metal boxes
- Plastic boxes/containers
- Rolls/tubes
- Parcels banded together
- Plastic buckets/canister including tote boxes
- Wooden boxes
- Sacks and bags
- Spools and reels
- Irregular shaped packages
Additional Handling Surcharge – Weight
Packages heavier than 31 kg
For more information on how to avoid these charges, see our guide and packaging guidelines.
Effective 26th February 2024. Oversize surcharge applies when one dimension exceeds 243cm and will be charged at £49.25 per item.
(Dependent on the customers agreement one of the following overweight processes may apply)
Weight limits - where the average parcel weight in a shipment exceeds 25kg, FedEx will charge an additional £3.52 for each additional 25kg or part thereof in excess of 25kg.
Weight limits - where the average parcel weight in a shipment exceeds 30kg, FedEx will charge an additional pence per kilo for each additional 1kg.
All information subject to FedEx Terms and Conditions of Carriage.
Transportation rates are effective from 6 January 2025. We reserve the right to amend rates, surcharges, transit times, and zones as we deem necessary with or without notice and in accordance with our Terms and Conditions of Carriage. We may amend, modify, or discontinue any services offered by FedEx at any time with or without notice. Service availability may vary depending upon the point or time of collection or delivery, shipment size or weight, or commodity type.