Retailers are contending with a new challenge as this year’s holiday shopping season heats up: extra shipping fees during the busiest weeks. United Parcel Service Inc. for the first time is tacking on a surcharge on packages shipped to homes around Black Friday and the week before Christmas, hoping to convince companies to send their orders outside those peak periods—or to make more money from ones that must be delivered then.

Source: Wall Street Journal November 22, 2017 10:30 UTC