At a glance
A table of the individual EasyPost parcels in the last 7 days whose label cost was more than twice the period average. These are the shipments quietly eating margin: a single oversized or mis-classified parcel can cost five to ten times a normal one. The card turns each outlier into a row you can action, rather than letting it disappear into the blended average.
What it tracks
Grounded in the card’sdetail (“High-Cost Shipment Outliers, broken down by row.”) and its >2× avg alert: the card reads every EasyPost shipment over the trailing 7 days (GET /v2/shipments, the bought selected_rate plus surcharges), computes the period average, and lists every parcel costing more than twice that average. Each row shows the shipment, the underlying carrier, the destination zone, the billed cost and the dominant surcharge so you can see why it was expensive. The usual culprits are dimensional-weight (dim-weight) reweighs where a light but bulky parcel is billed on volume not mass, residential and delivery-area surcharges, address-correction fees, and far-zone or international lanes. When any parcel breaches the >2× avg line the card flags it for owner, finance and operations. The fix is rarely the carrier: it is usually packaging (right-size the box), the rate-shop rule (a cheaper carrier existed for that lane), or upstream catalogue data (wrong stored dimensions triggering dim-weight reweighs). Read it next to Avg Shipping Cost for the baseline these rows are measured against, and Cost by Zone to see whether the outliers cluster in one zone.