Delaware borders New Jersey across the bay — from Newark this is bottom-of-the-chart zone pricing. The no-sales-tax state draws plenty of marketplace buyers, and getting parcels to them is cheap.
Captured live on 2026-07-27: one box, the Wilmington lane from both coasts, no editing between quote and page.
The reference parcel for this page, a 12 × 10 × 6 in box at 5 lb holding household goods, was priced through the SMKlog calculator into Wilmington from Newark and from Los Angeles. What follows is the unedited output. The stated price already contains SMKlog's charge and is exactly what checkout collects.
| Carrier | Service | Price | Quoted transit |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPS | Ground Saver | $10.37 | 3 business days |
| UPS | Ground | $11.24 | 1 business day |
| FedEx | Ground Economy | $11.42 | 2-3 business days |
| USPS | Priority Mail | $13.15 | 2-3 business days |
| UPS | 3 Day Select | $15.22 | 1 business day |
| Carrier | Service | Price | Quoted transit |
|---|---|---|---|
| USPS | Ground Advantage | $17.30 | 6-7 business days |
| UPS | Ground Saver | $19.14 | 6 business days |
| UPS | Ground | $19.30 | 7-8 business days |
| FedEx | Ground Economy | $20.50 | 7-8 business days |
| UPS | 3 Day Select | $27.17 | 3-4 business days |
Nearness set the order on 2026-07-27: UPS Ground Saver at $10.37 from Newark against a $17.30 USPS floor from Los Angeles. Wilmington and Dover share their zone bands, and the whole of Delaware tends to fit in one carrier zone from most origins, so intra-state destination choice hardly matters. Time matters more; carriers refile rates continually, and these tables describe one day, not every day.
Delaware is compact enough that carriers usually rate the entire state as a single zone from a given origin. Practically, a quote to Wilmington and a quote to Dover from your ZIP will look the same, and you can pick the address without thinking about price.
Feed it a one-line description and SMKlog estimates the packed box before quoting; measured dimensions slot in just as easily. It then lays the live USPS, UPS and FedEx rates side by side so the comparison takes seconds, not tabs.
Short lane or long, a parcel changes hands more times than most people expect. SMKlog can add shipping protection to a label for contents that would genuinely hurt to lose; for everyday items most shippers reasonably go without.
Our fixed test box (12 × 10 × 6 in, 5 lb) priced at $10.37 from Newark and $17.30 from Los Angeles on 2026-07-27, cheapest rows shown, SMKlog's charge already inside both figures. Distance did all the work there, so your own origin ZIP is the first thing to plug into a live quote.
From Newark the 2026-07-27 quotes were striking: 1 business day on UPS Ground and on 3 Day Select. Cross-country, the same box quoted 6-7 business days on USPS Ground Advantage and 3-4 on UPS 3 Day Select. Every row above states its own window.
UPS Ground Saver from Newark, $10.37 on quote day, with UPS Ground 87 cents back at $11.24 and only 1 business day quoted. From Los Angeles, USPS Ground Advantage led at $17.30. Rankings like these rotate as carriers reprice, so a live check before buying is the honest move.
They don't. Describe or measure the box, compare the returned rates, pay for one and print it; the tracking number rides along at no extra step.