An address correction fee is a surcharge a carrier bills when it has to repair an incomplete or invalid delivery address after the parcel is already moving. It is charged per parcel and lands on whoever pays the postage.
Cheap to prevent, annoying to absorb
The usual causes are dull and repeatable: a missing apartment or suite number, a ZIP code that does not match the city, a street type that puts the parcel on the wrong side of town, and a residential address entered as commercial. Each one is a customer typing quickly at checkout, which means the fix belongs at checkout rather than in the warehouse.
Address validation at checkout catches most of it for a fraction of what the surcharges cost, and it has a second benefit: an address the carrier can read is an address the carrier can scan as delivered, which is what you need if the charge is ever disputed. The correction fee is the small cost; the reshipped parcel behind it is the large one.
When one does land, it lands as a pass-through line on your invoice, because a carrier's surcharges pass through alongside the carrier's base rate. That is the trade for not paying a marked-up shipping rate on every other parcel, and the fulfillment pricing breakdown shows how the line is presented.
Related terms
Per-vial pricing, no pack fees, shipped blind under your brand
Product at wholesale, $1 per vial to label it, postage at carrier cost, weekly invoicing on net-7. No setup fees, no monthly minimums, no minimum order quantities.
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