UPS 2026: the greater of $1.65 per package OR 12% of total shipping-charge corrections during the invoice period (raised from 8% in the prior period).
A fee charged when the carrier corrects an address — including corrections its own address validation could have caught at label creation. For 2026 the per-invoice percentage component rose from 8% to 12% of shipping-charge corrections.
The address correction fee is charged when UPS modifies a delivery address it determines to be incomplete or incorrect. The concern is twofold. First, much address validation is available at label-creation time — when the shipper integrates address validation into their workflow, many of these 'corrections' need never happen, yet the fee is charged after the fact. Second, the 2026 change raised the percentage component of the fee from 8% to 12% of shipping-charge corrections during the invoice period, a 50% increase in that component that did not appear in the headline rate increase.
The most effective remedy is preventive: integrate carrier or third-party address validation at label creation so addresses are clean before the package ships. This is exactly the kind of capability a direct carrier-API integration enables — and a reason the ShipFair open-source integration matters. Where validation was available and the correction was trivial, the fee is also negotiable.
UPS 2026 Tariff/Terms & Conditions of Service §32 (Correction of Addresses); per-invoice percentage component raised to 12% for 2026.