For the week of July 27 to August 2, 2026, FedEx published a 25.75 percent fuel surcharge on Ground and Home Delivery, and 27.50 percent on domestic Express for July 20 to 26. UPS resets its own percentage every Monday against the same two commodity indexes, and USPS runs no fuel surcharge on domestic parcels at all.
Every percentage on this page carries the seven-day window it belongs to.
| Carrier | Service group | Rate | Week covered | Index it tracks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FedEx | Ground, Home Delivery, International Ground | 25.75% | July 27 to Aug. 2, 2026 | National U.S. on-highway average diesel price |
| FedEx | Express and other package services, domestic | 27.50% | July 20 to 26, 2026 | U.S. Gulf Coast spot price for kerosene-type jet fuel |
| FedEx | Express Freight, domestic | $0.636 per lb | July 20 to 26, 2026 | Weekly jet fuel pricing |
| UPS | Ground and Ground Saver | Published weekly by UPS | Resets Monday | National U.S. average on-highway diesel fuel price |
| UPS | Domestic air | Published weekly by UPS | Resets Monday | U.S. Gulf Coast price for kerosene-type jet fuel |
| USPS | Domestic parcels | No such line exists | n/a | n/a |
FedEx figures: fedex.com weekly fuel surcharge page, read 2026-07-28. UPS method and index bases: the UPS fuel surcharge support page, read the same day; that page describes a 90-day history table but did not render current percentages for us, so we are not printing a UPS number we did not read. USPS: Notice 123, prices effective July 12, 2026, where the word fuel does not appear once.
Two things stand out. The first is that FedEx was running two different numbers in the same week, 25.75 percent on ground and 27.50 percent on express, because the two ride different commodity indexes. The second is the date range: each figure covers seven days. Any page that prints a fuel percentage without a week attached is telling you about some other week.
The surcharge multiplies the transportation charge, not the total invoice, and at both carriers it can also attach to certain accessorial charges. That matters at the top of the weight ladder: on a heavy long-zone move the transportation charge is large, so a quarter added to it is a real number, while on a one pound envelope it rounds to pocket change.
The index moves every week and the carriers publish the new figure on a fixed weekday, Monday at UPS. A blog post is accurate for seven days and then quietly is not. That is the whole reason the top of this search result is stale: nobody maintains a weekly table for free.
USPS raises prices by filing a new schedule, not by riding a diesel index. Notice 123 is the entire domestic price list and it carries no fuel line, so a Ground Advantage price holds until the next filed change. It is one of the quiet reasons the Postal Service often wins on light parcels.
Our rates arrive with fuel already applied, so there is nothing for you to add on. As an example of the scale involved, the same 12 x 10 x 6 in box at 5 lb from Newark quoted $13.52 to Atlanta and $19.14 to Seattle on 2026-07-28. Neither figure needs adjusting for the week the index happened to be running.
If you want to watch the effect yourself, quote a box today and quote the same box in three weeks. Ground rates drift a little between filings, and part of that drift is the index. What you should not do is take a percentage off a published list and apply it by hand; you will double-count.
FedEx published 25.75 percent for Ground, Home Delivery and International Ground covering July 27 to August 2, 2026, and 27.50 percent for domestic Express and other package services covering July 20 to 26, 2026, per fedex.com read on 2026-07-28. UPS updates its own figures every Monday on its fuel surcharge page.
No. USPS Notice 123, the domestic price list effective July 12, 2026, contains no fuel surcharge line for parcels. Postal prices change when a new schedule is filed rather than tracking a weekly diesel or jet fuel index.
It multiplies the transportation charge and, at both UPS and FedEx, can apply to certain accessorial charges as well. It is not a flat fee per package, which is why the same percentage feels invisible on a padded envelope and heavy on a 50 lb long-zone shipment.
No. The figure in our calculator is the whole amount you pay at checkout, fuel included, with SMKlog's charge inside it. You can buy the label as a guest and print it straight away.