We've been shipping FBM for 10 years and 100's of thousands of orders... I've never seen UPS rates so high, ever. It's absurd. Surely a seasonal bump...but I've not seen it by this much ever. Fed Ex is somehow cheaper - and by many times $4-6 cheaper per order! Fed Ex is very slow moving also - we ship very quickly when we receive orders, and they are taking 2-3 days longer than UPS would. So are my fellow FBM sellers seeing this massive disparity and everyone is shipping Fed Ex - making them get bogged down??!! We have daily UPS pick ups, and never Fed Ex because they were so much more expensive - rarely shipped with them. The drives to the Fed Ex store are getting pretty full!