Reply from ShippoNov 23, 2022
Hi Moriah,
Thanks for leaving us a review. We apologize that you ran into trouble with surcharges from UPS. Looking over your correspondence with one of our Support members, it does appear that our team relayed what caused these UPS surcharges and what we're doing to help resolve this. To re-clarify, it appears that UPS applied Zone Adjustment surcharges to your shipments, meaning that your packages were dropped off at different UPS locations from what you specified when purchasing the labels. The transportation charges will not be accurate if the pickup address on the label and the actual pick up address are not the same, and thus, UPS will charge a surcharge since the prices of the label change due to the distance the package is traveling.
As UPS states, “On the shipping label, we had VA 22101 and this package was dropped off in WA 98052 so we had to pick it up from there." This happened on a couple occasions, in which another package of yours had a sender address listed as a Connecticut address, but it was mailed from Texas instead.
We understand that receiving surcharges after shipping is always a surprise, and we’re very sorry this happened on multiple occasions. When this happens, we will do everything in our power to fight these charges with UPS (or any other carrier). Our Support team member had reached out to UPS on November 8, 2022 to dispute the charges and is still waiting to hear back from UPS. As a side note, these disputes are successful at times and at other times, the carrier will deny the dispute if their findings are accurate.
We hope this helps clarify things. Our Support team will update you as soon as they hear back from UPS. If there's anything else we can help you out with in the meantime, please feel free to reach out to us at [email protected]. If you prefer chatting with one of our Support members, please feel free to give us a call at your convenience at (415)-779-7447 and we'd be happy to help. We offer Phone Support M-F from 9-5PM PST.
Thank you,
Shippo Support