{"id":238934,"date":"2026-04-07T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238934\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:09:10","slug":"companies-raise-prices-and-add-new-surcharges-to-offset-fuel-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238934\/","title":{"rendered":"Companies raise prices and add new surcharges to offset fuel costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Several companies are raising prices to offset higher fuel costs.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon says it will impose a fuel surcharge on some third-party sellers this month. That could result in higher prices for consumers if sellers offset the cost.<\/p>\n<p>JetBlue, Delta and United Airlines say they have increased baggage fees in light of fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Postal Service is imposing its first-ever fuel surcharge. The 8% fee will apply to packages starting April 26.<\/p>\n<p>UPS, FedEx and some other shippers have automatic charges that kick in when fuel hits a certain level.<\/p>\n<p>AAA says diesel is averaging $5.65 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Several companies are raising prices to offset higher fuel costs. Amazon says it will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5559,91814,23085,155,157,156,46942,34569,14265,29230,91815,78797],"class_list":{"0":"post-238934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-baggage","10":"tag-companies","11":"tag-corpus-christi","12":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","13":"tag-corpus-christi-news","14":"tag-delta","15":"tag-fedex","16":"tag-fuel","17":"tag-jetblue","18":"tag-rising-cost","19":"tag-shipping"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}