Fuel surcharge

I flew from Sydney to Melbourne today and paid a couple of fuel surcharges with my airline ticket.  At my software company we’re finalising a move to a new courier company and have been looking at the fuel surcharge as part of the contract and every courier company contract.  One of the suppliers to our newsagency put up their prices a week back because of the high cost of fuel – call it a fuel surcharge they said.

Small business newsagents are blocked by newspaper publishers from passing the cost of fuel.  Where is the fairness in that?