FedEx Ground / Home Delivery Rates 2026

FedEx Ground / Home Delivery Rates by Zone and Weight, 2026#

FedEx Ground / Home Delivery: nearest zone to farthest, by weight

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• FedEx list rate, zones 7-8 column1 lb $15.01, 20 lb $43.52
• FedEx list rate, zones 1-4 column1 lb $11.99, 20 lb $19.36

FedEx Ground / Home Delivery: Key Takeaways#

• FedEx Ground costs about $11.99 to $15.01 at published list rates for a 1 lb package depending on zone in 2026, before surcharges.
• A home address adds a $6.45 FedEx residential delivery surcharge per package, which on a light box often exceeds the difference between carriers.
• FedEx prices FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery on one rate table, and FedEx Home Delivery is the ground service to residences, up to 150 lbs.
• FedEx bills the greater of actual weight and length times width times height divided by 139 on every package, so a bulky light box is priced by its dimensions.
• I'd Ship That prints discounted USPS and UPS labels; FedEx appears here for comparison and is not sold through I'd Ship That.

What the $6.45 FedEx Residential Surcharge Adds to a Label#

The FedEx residential delivery surcharge is $6.45 per package in 2026, and it is the single most under-counted number in a FedEx Ground comparison. On the 1 lb line, the $11.99 published rate to zone 2 becomes about $18.44 delivered to a house. On the 20 lb line it takes $19.36 to about $25.81. The surcharge is flat, so it hurts most in percentage terms on the lightest, cheapest shipments, which is exactly where sellers ship the most volume.

Because the surcharge is flat rather than proportional, the right comparison is always the full delivered cost rather than the base rate. Two quotes that look four dollars apart on the base rate can invert once one of them is a residential FedEx Ground delivery. FedEx Hold at Location, which routes the package to a staffed pickup point instead of a doorstep, avoids the surcharge and is worth using for personal shipments where the recipient can collect.

• Add $6.45 to every FedEx Ground quote going to a home address before you compare anything.
• Confirm whether each destination is classified residential or commercial, since the classification drives the surcharge.
• Use FedEx Hold at Location on personal shipments where the recipient can collect from a staffed point.
• Compare full delivered cost against a USPS or UPS quote for the same box rather than comparing base rates.

Where FedEx Ground Sits Against USPS and UPS on a 10 lb Box#

FedEx Ground published rates land close to UPS Ground across the whole table: about $11.99 versus $11.99 at 1 lb to a near zone, and about $26.38 versus $26.29 at 10 lb to zone 8. The two networks price ground service similarly enough that the deciding factors are the surcharges, the account discount, and the dimensional weight rule rather than the list rate itself. All three of those vary by shipper, which is why a published-rate comparison rarely settles the question.

I'd Ship That prints discounted USPS and UPS labels; FedEx is covered here for comparison and is not sold through I'd Ship That. The practical workflow is therefore to price the box on USPS and UPS first, then check whether a FedEx account rate plus the residential surcharge beats it. On boxes under 70 lbs going to homes, the USPS quote is frequently the one to beat, because USPS does not apply a residential surcharge and skips dimensional weight on most standard-size packages.

• Price the same box on USPS and UPS before treating a FedEx Ground list rate as the benchmark.
• Remember USPS domestic services stop at 70 lbs, so anything heavier is a UPS or FedEx decision.
• Weigh the dimensional weight rule: FedEx and UPS apply it to every package, USPS only above 1 cubic foot on Priority Mail.
• Let Ship Intelligence pick the cheapest valid USPS or UPS rate so the comparison happens on every order, not occasionally.

How FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery Share One Rate Table#

FedEx runs Ground for business addresses and Home Delivery for residential ones, and its 2026 rate guide prices both on one table. FedEx Home Delivery offers Saturday and Sunday delivery in many areas. An evening delivery window is a paid option, $11.25 per package in 2026. Sharing a rate table does not remove the price difference: the $6.45 residential delivery surcharge still attaches automatically to a home address.

The practical consequence is that the base rate is the same either way. What changes the bill is the address classification, so the thing worth auditing is not which FedEx service you selected but how many of your destinations are classified residential.

• Do not expect a different base rate between FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery; they share one rate table.
• Audit what share of your destinations are residential, since that share drives your surcharge exposure.
• Treat weekend residential delivery as part of the service and an evening window as a paid option ($11.25 per package in 2026).
• Revisit any routing rule that treats the two as differently priced products, because only the residential surcharge differs.

Common Mistakes When Pricing FedEx Ground / Home Delivery#

FedEx Ground / Home Delivery Cost Control Checklist#

• Add $6.45 to every FedEx Ground quote going to a residential address.
• Audit what share of your destinations are classified residential rather than commercial.
• Price the same box on USPS and UPS in I'd Ship That before treating a FedEx Ground rate as the benchmark.
• Compute length times width times height divided by 139 for bulky boxes, since FedEx bills the greater of that and the scale weight.
• Route anything over 70 lbs to a UPS or FedEx quote, since USPS domestic services stop there.
• Use FedEx Hold at Location on personal shipments where the recipient can collect.
• Turn on Ship Intelligence so the cheapest valid USPS or UPS rate is selected on every order.
• If you ship 20 or more orders a day, move batch labeling into The Workbench.