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Since the pandemic started, shippers have been beefing up their operations, while retailers have been remaking how they process orders, all in preparation for a holiday season like nothing they have ever seen before.

This commodity rate, while special to meet a particular contingency, was open to any other shipper similarly circumstanced.

Rates are sometimes changed, not to suit the shipper but to serve the railway's interests.

And it would indeed follow, were it not that the incidence of the rate is rarely upon the actual shipper.

Or an excessive allowance might be made by the railway for some service or facility afforded by the shipper.

What the amount of such Underclassification of freight by collusion between agent and shipper was, can only be conjectured.