New Hampshire pairs corridor-adjacent zones with no sales tax — marketplace buyers love it, and shipping to them from the Northeast is short-zone cheap.
A real parcel, priced 2026-07-27; the tables show the raw carrier answers with their routes attached.
Manchester served as the destination when we benchmarked this lane on 2026-07-27, sending a 12 × 10 × 6 in box at 5 lb of household goods through the SMKlog calculator from Newark and from Los Angeles. The carrier responses appear below as received. Listed prices are complete, label and SMKlog's charge merged into one amount.
| Carrier | Service | Price | Quoted transit |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPS | Ground Saver | $10.56 | 4 business days |
| UPS | Ground | $11.46 | 2-3 business days |
| FedEx | Ground Economy | $11.68 | 2-3 business days |
| USPS | Priority Mail | $14.15 | 3-4 business days |
| UPS | 3 Day Select | $16.78 | 2-3 business days |
| Carrier | Service | Price | Quoted transit |
|---|---|---|---|
| USPS | Ground Advantage | $17.30 | 6-7 business days |
| UPS | Ground Saver | $19.14 | 7 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 |
UPS Ground Saver posted the Newark low at $10.56, and USPS Ground Advantage the Los Angeles low at $17.30, on 2026-07-27. Manchester and Nashua behave like corridor cities. North of the notches, add a day to whatever the table says. And since rate tables get refiled constantly, your own ZIPs deserve their own quote.
Carrier windows quoted to Manchester hold for the southern tier of the state. Berlin, Colebrook, and the towns up past the White Mountains often see delivery a day later on identical service. Send time-sensitive parcels north on a faster tier.
From Newark, UPS Ground at $11.46 quoted 2-3 business days against 4 for the $10.56 cheapest row. Ninety cents for a day or two is a strong trade. Run that arithmetic on every pair of adjacent rows before picking.
A $10.56 label can carry a guitar worth twenty times more, and the carrier neither knows nor cares. You should. Shipping protection added at checkout means a lost or damaged parcel becomes a claim, not a write-off.
Cheapest 2026-07-27 quotes for our 12 × 10 × 6 in, 5 lb parcel: $10.56 from Newark, $17.30 from Los Angeles. Those are full checkout amounts with the label and SMKlog charge combined. Run the calculator for your box to get a live figure.
Our Newark quotes ranged from 2-3 business days on UPS Ground to 4 on the cheapest tier. From Los Angeles, ground rows quoted roughly a week, and 3 Day Select cut that to 3-4. Exact windows accompany every price above.
On 2026-07-27, UPS Ground Saver at $10.56 edged out the field from Newark, and USPS Ground Advantage at $17.30 led from Los Angeles. Different origins crowned different carriers, which is the argument for comparing live every time.
There is no account to create in the first place. Describe the item, enter the ZIP pair, review the live carrier prices, and buy the one that fits. Label and tracking are delivered on payment.