What You Need to Know About New USPS Rates Coming July 10, 2022

The US Postal Service (USPS) has announced upcoming USPS Zip to Zone, Parcel Select Cubic pricing, and Marketing Dominant Product changes that will take effect at 12:01 a.m. EST on July 10, 2022 – but don’t fret, we’ve got all the information you need to get ahead of these changes.

What’s Changing with the USPS Rate Adjustments?

There are three parts to the upcoming USPS price change:

Changes to Market Dominant Products

While this portion of the rate change is focused mainly on non-parcel shipments , e-commerce merchants should be aware that prices for Signature Confirmation will change. For more information, please reference this USPS link.

Changes to USPS’ Competitive Product Offerings

The Postal Service is not changing prices for competitive products in this case. However, some price and classification changes are being made to Priority Mail and the Parcel Select:

3 Digit-3 Digit Zip to Zone Calculation Change

With the new centroid-based 3 Digit to 3 Digit  Zone Calculation, the USPS will align zone determination to the customer perspective by leveraging new technology to determine distances more precisely from an origin location to a destination location. This will change the end-to-end definition of zone determination from a historically calculated facility-based 3 Digit-to-3 Digit ZIP Code pair to a centroid-based 3D-to-3D ZIP Code pair using entry and delivery ZIP Code-based location technology.

The new zip to zone calculation changes may reduce postage costs for some shipments, while increasing costs for others. However, you should keep in mind that most shipments should not be impacted.

For more information about current domestic zones, you can reference this USPS link.

You can find more information on the USPS July 10, 2022 price change on the USPS website, and if you have any questions or concerns about these upcoming changes, please reach out to our shipping experts for more information.