Sometimes, if you're not familiar with the industry the price that your courier company charges you can be a bit of a mystery. However, with just a little time, you can quickly learn how to break down the prices that you're being quoted, and begin to understand how to predict what your shipping bills are going to be like on any given order. Just remember that these are general guidelines. A New Mexico courier service could price their orders completely different than one located in New York, but even though the numbers differ, the basic pricing principles are going to remain the same.
There are different ways that courier companies sometimes price their delivery based on distance, but distance is always an important part of the equation. Sometimes they will charge on a per mile basis, but if you are shipping within a city with a local courier, sometimes they have a zone basis instead. However, the distance that your package is traveling is always going to be one of the main factors in establishing your price.
The next factor in price establishment is going to be the size of the footprint that your package is going to consume within the courier vehicle. Any vehicle which is transporting goods has limits both on the size and the weight of the packages that they can carry. As such, the size and the weight of your shipment are usually combined to come up with a figure called a freight class. This is used with the distance to establish the primary price of your shipment.
There are still lots of adjustments that can happen to the price from there. Anything which makes your delivery out of the ordinary, or more difficult, will cause the price to go up. If you needed a special kind of trailer like a flatbed, that would increase the price; so would the rental of special equipment like a liftgate. Shipping after hours and on holidays is also going to see your rates go up.
Most of the adjustments that happen to the price of your order are going to cause it go up, but a few might even adjust it down. For instance, some couriers have corporate rates for account holders that ship at a certain volume. It always pays to look into any discounts or corporate rates that your courier may offer, as you may end up being able to save your company some money.
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