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2025 Peak Season Overview of Resources and Updates

An overview of peak season resources to help plan your best holiday season yet: warehouse operating days, shipping surcharges and more.

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Written by Maureen
Updated over 2 weeks ago

Our team is ramping up our operations for the 2025 peak season to ensure that we get your orders to customers on time, every time.

Peak Season Reminders:

  • Please share all holiday forecasts and promotional schedules with your account manager. All updates should be communicated regularly.

  • No Physical Inventories in November and December, 2025.

  • No onsite visits in November and December, 2025.

DCL Days of Operations

It includes days DCL is open and shipping during the holidays, plus noted are the associated fees that may be incurred on certain days for peak season fulfillment.

Demand Shipping Surcharges

Many major carriers are implementing demand surcharges, formerly known as peak surcharges, for the 2025 holiday season. These surcharges have very complex structures, so we are simplifying them to make them easier to calculate.

This year, DCL Logistics is either passing them through, as is, or absorbing some or all of the costs. There will be some differences in how surcharges are calculated based on whether customers use our SelectShip service, or not.

  • SelectShip surcharges: $0.50 - $3.50 per package

  • Carrier surcharges (non-SelectShip)

    • UPS $1.75 - $3.50

    • FedEx $0.75 - $2.50

    • DHL $0.62 - $1.07

    • USPS $0.30 - $13.00

πŸ“Œ Note: In addition to peak surcharges, other surcharges still apply, including delivery area surcharges, fuel surcharges, residential surcharges, etc.

Holiday Shipping Deadlines

[Will be updated when this information is published by carriers.]

Closure Dates

See resources below for holidays and closure dates.

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