Like me, you got Amazon’s email today.
“Elevated costs in fulfillment and logistics have increased the cost of operating across the industry. We have absorbed these increased costs so far.”
They absorbed them. For you. Aren’t they generous.
Starting April 17, 2026, Amazon is adding a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge to every FBA fulfillment fee in the US and Canada. They’re calling it temporary. They didn’t define temporary. There is no end date. There is no sunset clause. There is no mechanism that removes it when conditions improve — because “conditions evolve” isn’t a commitment, it’s a escape hatch.
Here’s what they also didn’t tell you: UPS and FedEx — the carriers Amazon is comparing themselves to — are charging their customers 1.5% to 2% for the same conditions. Amazon’s surcharge is more than double that. On a captive marketplace where you have no alternative.
The math is simple. Take your average monthly units shipped and multiply by $0.17. Multiply that by 12. That’s your annual cost of this “temporary” surcharge — with no negotiation, no appeal, and no end date in sight.
For a seller moving 500 units a month, that’s $1,020 a year extracted with a form email and two weeks notice.
This isn’t about $0.17 per unit. It never is. It’s about a pattern — unilateral fee increases on a marketplace where sellers have no leverage, no recourse, and no voice. Amazon writes the rules, changes the rules, and sends you an email when they’re done.
One seller complaining about a surcharge is noise. Three million sellers with their numbers on record is evidence.
SellerAction is filing a formal Seller Impact Report with the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee before April 17. We need your name, your state, and your average monthly units shipped on record.
This is how pressure gets built. Not by one seller sending an angry email to Seller Central. By thousands of sellers creating a document that regulators and legislators can’t ignore.
[Add your name to the record at selleraction.org/emergency-action]
The deadline is April 17. That’s when the surcharge hits. That’s when this window closes.
One seller is a complaint. 5,000 sellers is evidence.