Key Takeaways UPS and FedEx charge extra, currently around $6.50 to $7 per package, when they classify a delivery address as residential instead of commercial. Carriers decide this using their own address databases, not your shipping label. A commercial address can still get flagged as residential if the database is wrong or out of date. Manufacturers get hit with this more than most, because they ship to job sites, home-based contractors, and newer industrial parks that don’