FedEx Ground / Home Delivery Rates 2026
2026 FedEx Ground and Home Delivery rates by weight and zone, plus the residential surcharge. I'd Ship That prints discounted USPS and UPS labels, not FedEx.
- $6.452026 residential delivery surcharge
- $11.991 lb published list rate, zones 1 to 4
- 150 lbsFedEx Ground weight ceiling
FedEx Ground costs about $11.99 to $15.40 at published list rates for a 1 lb package depending on zone, and delivers in 1 to 5 business days on packages up to 150 lbs.
A residential address adds a $6.45 per-package surcharge in 2026, which is often larger than the gap between carriers on a light box. 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.
FedEx merged Home Delivery into FedEx Ground, so one service now covers both business and residential addresses, with residential deliveries available on Saturdays and evenings. Like UPS, FedEx bills the greater of actual weight and length times width times height divided by 139 on every package regardless of size, so a light but bulky box is priced by its dimensions.
FedEx published rates rose about 5.9 percent in the increase cycle that ran from late December 2025 into January 2026, and the residential surcharge sits on top of that. The practical use of this page is to price the same box on USPS and UPS before assuming FedEx Ground is the cheaper home-delivery option.
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What FedEx Ground / Home Delivery Includes at No Extra Cost#
FedEx Ground / Home Delivery Rates by Zone and Weight, 2026#
Read this FedEx Ground table with two adjustments.
First, a home address adds a $6.45 residential delivery surcharge in 2026, so the 1 lb line at $11.99 in zones 1 through 4 is really about $18.44 delivered to a house. Second, the commercial column reflects FedEx account-based pricing, negotiated directly with FedEx, not a rate available through I'd Ship That: I'd Ship That prints discounted USPS and UPS labels only.
The useful comparison is therefore the full delivered FedEx Ground cost, surcharge included, against a USPS or UPS quote for the same box and destination. On light home-delivery orders the surcharge alone is frequently larger than the difference between the base rates.
| Weight | Zone 1-4 | Zone 5-6 | Zone 7-8 | FedEx Account Rate |
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| 1 lb | $11.99 | $13.20 | $15.40 | $7.10 |
| 2 lbs | $12.75 | $14.60 | $17.10 | $7.95 |
| 3 lbs | $13.50 | $15.95 | $19.30 | $8.90 |
| 5 lbs | $15.25 | $18.80 | $23.90 | $11.15 |
| 7 lbs | $17.40 | $21.90 | $28.50 | $13.40 |
| 10 lbs | $20.60 | $26.80 | $35.70 | $16.45 |
| 15 lbs | $25.90 | $34.50 | $46.30 | $20.90 |
| 20 lbs | $30.80 | $41.90 | $55.60 | $24.95 |
The surcharge decides it#
A residential address adds a $6.45 per-package surcharge in 2026, which on a light box is often larger than the gap between carriers. The 1 lb line at $11.99 in zones 1 through 4 is really about $18.44 delivered to a house.
- Add the surcharge before comparing anything, never after.
- FedEx Hold at Location delivers to a staffed pickup point and avoids it on personal shipments.
- Price the same box on USPS and UPS, which is what I'd Ship That prints, before you commit.
Where the base rate is close to the bill#
Business-to-business volume goes to commercial addresses, so the residential surcharge never applies and the published figure is close to what lands on the invoice. A 10 lb package is $20.60 to $35.70 by zone, and a 20 lb package $30.80 to $55.60.
- FedEx merged Home Delivery into FedEx Ground, so one service now covers both address types.
- Saturday and evening residential delivery are available on the same service.
- Declared value coverage up to $100 is included.
Billed on dimensions#
FedEx bills the greater of actual weight and length times width times height divided by 139 on every package regardless of size, so a bulky box is priced by its measurements rather than its scale weight.
- Measure a bulky box before you quote it, not after the label prints.
- The 1 to 5 business day window and the 150 lb ceiling do not change with the billing rule.
- Right-sizing the carton is the only lever that moves a dimensional charge.
When FedEx Ground / Home Delivery Is the Right Service#
- Heavy packages over 10 lbs going to commercial addresses
- Business-to-business shipments where the residential surcharge never applies
- Packages up to 150 lbs, above the 70 lb USPS ceiling
- Shipments that need Saturday or evening home delivery
- Shippers who already hold a FedEx account with negotiated pricing
FedEx Ground / Home Delivery: What Experienced Shippers Do Differently#
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FedEx charges a $6.45 residential delivery surcharge per package in 2026, so add it to every home-delivery comparison rather than comparing base rates.
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Like UPS, FedEx bills dimensional weight at length times width times height divided by 139 on every package, so measure a bulky box before you quote it.
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FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery are now one combined service, which means a residential address picks up the surcharge automatically.
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FedEx Hold at Location delivers to a staffed pickup point and avoids the residential surcharge on personal shipments.
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The commercial column on this page is FedEx account pricing negotiated with FedEx directly. I'd Ship That prints discounted USPS and UPS labels, so price those two for the same box before you decide.
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Ship Intelligence automatically picks the cheapest valid rate across USPS and UPS, which is the comparison worth automating on high-volume home-delivery orders.
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Batching a wave of orders? The Workbench lets Pro users bulk import, rate-shop USPS and UPS, and print a whole batch of labels in one pass.
FedEx Ground / Home Delivery: Key Takeaways#
- FedEx Ground costs about $11.99 to $15.40 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 merged Home Delivery into FedEx Ground, so one service covers both business and residential addresses 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 zones 1 through 4 becomes about $18.44 delivered to a house. On the 20 lb line it takes $30.80 to about $37.25. 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 $35.70 versus $36.50 at 10 lb to zones 7 and 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 Merged Into One#
FedEx used to run Ground for business addresses and Home Delivery for residential ones as separate products with separate transit commitments. FedEx merged them, so a single FedEx Ground shipment now serves both, and residential deliveries run on Saturdays and evenings as part of the base service rather than as an upgrade. The merge simplified booking but did not remove the price difference: the $6.45 residential delivery surcharge still attaches automatically to a home address.
The practical consequence is that a service comparison built before the merge is out of date. Older guides that tell you to choose FedEx Home Delivery for residential orders are describing a product that no longer exists as a separate line item. What survives 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.
- Stop selecting between FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery; they are one service now.
- Audit what share of your destinations are residential, since that share drives your surcharge exposure.
- Treat Saturday and evening residential delivery as included rather than as a paid upgrade.
- Revisit any routing rule written before the merge, because it is describing products that no longer exist separately.
Common Mistakes When Pricing FedEx Ground / Home Delivery#
| Mistake | Why It Hurts | Better Approach |
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| Comparing FedEx Ground base rates without the residential surcharge | A label that looks competitive at $11.99 is about $18.44 delivered to a house in 2026, which inverts most light-parcel comparisons. | Add the $6.45 residential surcharge to every home-delivery quote before comparing anything. |
| Assuming the commercial column here is a rate you can buy from I'd Ship That | Those figures are FedEx account pricing negotiated with FedEx directly, so budgeting against them without a FedEx account produces a plan you cannot execute. | Price USPS and UPS on I'd Ship That for the same box, and treat the FedEx column as reference only. |
| Quoting FedEx Ground from the scale weight on a bulky box | FedEx bills the greater of actual weight and length times width times height divided by 139 on every package, so a light box in a large carton bills several rows higher. | Measure the box and compute the dimensional weight before you quote, then right-size where the contents allow. |
| Routing home deliveries by habit rather than by delivered cost | On light boxes to residential addresses the surcharge alone is often larger than the gap between carriers, so the habit costs several dollars an order. | Compare full delivered cost on USPS and UPS for every home-delivery order, or let Ship Intelligence do it automatically. |
| Planning against pre-2026 FedEx rates | The roughly 5.9 percent increase from the late-2025 to early-2026 cycle means saved figures understate the current cost, and expanded dimensional weight rules widen the gap further on bulky boxes. | Quote the live rate before every batch instead of trusting a saved spreadsheet. |
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.
Real FedEx Ground / Home Delivery Shipment Examples#
The most common ecommerce parcel there is, and the one where the base rate and the delivered cost diverge the most.
- Published list rate: $11.99. Residential delivery surcharge in 2026: $6.45.
- Delivered, that is about $18.44 on a single light package.
- Price the same box on USPS and UPS before deciding; I'd Ship That prints discounted USPS and UPS labels, and FedEx is here for reference only.
Heavier, going to a loading dock rather than a doorstep, which is the profile FedEx Ground published rates were built around.
- Published list rate: $34.50, with no residential surcharge in play.
- The same 15 lb box to zones 7 and 8 is $46.30 published.
- The 2026 published rates already carry the roughly 5.9 percent increase from the late December to January cycle.
The comparison sellers usually run is the base-rate column, which is wrong in a predictable direction for direct-to-consumer volume.
- Twenty residential packages carry $6.45 each in surcharge, which is $129 that never appears in a base-rate table.
- On light boxes the surcharge alone frequently exceeds the difference between carriers.
- Ship Intelligence rate-shops the two carriers I'd Ship That does sell, USPS and UPS, and picks the cheapest valid one.
FedEx Ground / Home Delivery Questions Shippers Actually Ask#
FedEx Ground published list rates start at about $11.99 for a 1 lb package to nearby zones in 2026. A 10 lb package runs about $20.60 to $35.70 depending on zone, and a 20 lb package about $30.80 to $55.60. Add $6.45 per package for a residential delivery. Those figures reflect the roughly 5.9 percent FedEx increase from the late-2025 to early-2026 cycle.
The FedEx residential delivery surcharge is $6.45 per package in 2026, and it applies to any delivery to a home address on FedEx Ground. On a 1 lb package at the $11.99 list rate to a nearby zone, that surcharge is more than half the base rate again. FedEx Hold at Location, which delivers to a staffed pickup point, avoids it on personal shipments.
FedEx merged Ground and Home Delivery into a single service, so all FedEx Ground shipments now deliver to both businesses and residences, with residential deliveries available on Saturdays and evenings. The $6.45 residential delivery surcharge still applies to home addresses, which means the same box costs more going to a house than to a business.
FedEx Ground delivers in 1 to 5 business days based on origin and destination. Local and regional shipments typically arrive in 1 to 3 business days, and cross-country deliveries take 4 to 5. FedEx provides an estimated delivery date when the label is created. Business days exclude Sundays and federal holidays.
FedEx Ground and UPS Ground carry very similar published rates in 2026, and both took roughly 5.9 percent increases in the late-2025 to early-2026 cycle. The difference usually comes from account discounts, surcharges, and dimensional weight rather than the base rate. On a home delivery, compare the full cost including the $6.45 FedEx residential surcharge.
No. I'd Ship That prints discounted USPS and UPS labels. FedEx Ground rates appear on this page so you can see where FedEx sits against USPS and UPS on the same box and destination, but a FedEx label is not sold through I'd Ship That. The commercial column in the table above reflects FedEx account pricing negotiated with FedEx directly.
FedEx raised published rates about 5.9 percent effective in the late-December 2025 to January 2026 window, on top of the per-package surcharges that already applied. Those increases hit every list-rate label. FedEx also expanded its dimensional weight rules, which pushes the effective increase higher on lightweight, large-dimension boxes than the headline percentage suggests.
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