One adoption. Zero standing cost. Every local business gets free AI-mediated shipping review and the aggregation leverage of your entire jurisdiction — without you rewriting a single carrier tariff.
The ShipFair Fair Trade Covenant is a transparency and disclosure standard, not a price mandate. It is explicitly not a boycott, a price-setting instrument, or an instruction to refuse service from any carrier. Cities that have adopted consumer transparency standards — price legibility ordinances, disclosure requirements — are in exactly this legal space.
Adopting the covenant means your jurisdiction publicly declares:
The city lends its voice, its aggregation weight, and its platform. ShipFair provides the free tool, the technical infrastructure, and the public credibility of a sourced, substantiated transparency institution.
A business operating in this jurisdiction is entitled to shipping pricing that is itemized, legible, and honest.
Where a small business receives a shipping invoice it cannot interpret — where surcharges are attached without explanation, where the basis for each line is not disclosed, where the total does not reflect the carrier's published fair pricing for the account volume — the remedy is not silence.
The remedy is the exhibit: a documented record of the charges as quoted. The review: each line classified against the published carrier tariff, with the fair benchmark for the same shipment. The dispute: a templated artifact that cites the specific grounds for requesting review and correction, addressed to the carrier's own billing and account channels.
This city adopts the ShipFair Fair Trade Covenant as a transparency standard and endorses ShipFair's free AI-mediated exhibit review as a public resource for every small business in its jurisdiction. This covenant does not mandate prices, restrict carrier operations, or constitute a boycott. It declares an information right and points every local business to the free infrastructure that makes that right exercisable.
V1 is building the demand signal. Register your city or county's interest and you'll be first to receive the full covenant package: the adoption resolution template, the public-facing communication kit, and the ShipFair city dashboard when it launches.