Disney World Now Prices Ship-Home by Bag Size, Not by What You Bought, and a $2,000 Haul Can Fall From $99.99 to $19.97

Until yesterday, mailing your Walt Disney World souvenirs home cost more the more they were worth. A guest with a $2,000 pile of purchases paid $99.99 to ship it. As of today, that same guest pays $19.97, provided the pile fits in the green bag.

Walt Disney World overhauled its merchandise shipping on Tuesday, September 1, handing the service to the third-party provider Ricoh. WDW News Today, which reported the change and photographed the new paperwork, says it took effect today across the resorts. The pricing model did not just change numbers. It changed what it measures.

The new prices: Green (Extra Small) $19.97, Pink (Small) $29.97, Blue (Medium) $44.97, Yellow (Large) $49.97. A fifth option, Clear, covers custom, international or overweight shipments. Anything over 50 pounds counts as overweight.

The sheet's own descriptions are refreshingly plain about what fits. The green bag is "Great for small purchases and trinkets." The pink one gives you "a little more room for a few shirts or small toy or popcorn bucket." Blue holds "most of your purchases," and yellow will take "A small carry-on suitcase & other small items can fit."

What the old card charged

The rate card Disney used before was built entirely around declared value. Anything from $0 to $100 shipped for $19.99. The $100.01 to $250 band cost $34.99, and $250.01 to $500 cost $74.99. Every band above that, all the way up to a stated ceiling of $99,999.99, charged a flat $99.99. International shipping ran from $30 to $150 on a separate schedule. That card was itself fairly new. WDW News Today reported in December 2025 that Disney had just raised the domestic maximum from $40 to $99.99, so the ceiling this week's change wipes out had only been in place about nine months.

So the change lands very differently depending on what you bought. The cheapest possible ship-home barely moved, from $19.99 to $19.97, a two cent cut. The expensive end collapsed. A $600 purchase went from $99.99 to as little as $19.97. A guest who bought a $250 Loungefly and a spirit jersey used to land in the $250.01 to $500 band at $74.99, and now pays $29.97 or $44.97 depending on which bag those two items actually need.

There are losers here, and they are the guests with bulky but cheap hauls. Under the old card, $90 worth of plush and a popcorn bucket shipped for $19.99, because the rate card asked only what the pile was worth and never how big it was. Under the new one, that same load needs the pink bag at $29.97 or the blue at $44.97.

The catch is that value has not disappeared from the pricing. It has moved into insurance.

Insurance is now its own line

Every bag price includes $100 of coverage at no extra charge. Above that, there is a separate schedule that climbs with declared value: $5 at $200, $9 at $500, $17 at $1,000, $34 at $2,000, $51 at $3,000 and $85 at the schedule's $5,000 maximum. Anything over $5,000 is treated as Custom Shipping.

Run the $2,000 example all the way through and the guest who paid $99.99 yesterday pays $19.97 today if they decline extra coverage, or $53.97 if they insure the full declared value. Both are still well under the old price.

The delivery window is not on the new sheet

Here is the detail that is easy to miss. The old rate card advertised its speed right in the column header: "01 Ground (10-15 Days)." The Ricoh sheet does not state a transit time anywhere on it. What it does state is a notification rather than an estimate: your tracking number arrives by email, and only after the bag has been through what the sheet calls the Ricoh Merchandise Shipping Center.

That is not the same as a delivery estimate, and guests shipping something they want waiting for them at home may want to ask at the counter.

How the process works now

There are four steps on the sheet. Pick the bag that fits your items. Fill it, without overfilling, and leave it open for now. Scan the QR code and work through the online portal, which asks for your bag size and color, the zip tie tag number, any insurance beyond the included $100, contact details, delivery and billing addresses, and a list of the bag contents, then takes payment. Finally, close the bag using the zip tie tag you were given, show a Cast Member your online confirmation and hand the bag over.

Payment is by major credit and debit cards, Apple Pay or Google Pay through the portal. Shipping alcohol, tobacco products or firearms is, in the sheet's words, "strictly prohibited."

One wrinkle worth flagging: the Ricoh sheet itself is written for resorts, telling guests to "See a Merchandise or Front Desk Cast Member at a participating resort" and to return the finished bag to "a participating Front Desk location." WDW News Today reports you can also ask a Cast Member in any gift shop about shipping, and that there is a dedicated shipping station at the back of Marketplace Co-Op at Disney Springs.

What Disney has not said

Disney has not publicized the change. We found no Disney Parks Blog post and no press release announcing it, and the clearest public record so far is the two printed sheets a reporter photographed at a counter. Both sheets carry the same revision code, R 8-26, which reads as an August 2026 revision date.

For guests shipping something valuable this is straightforwardly good news, and for anyone who has ever winced at a $99.99 shipping quote on a big Star Wars or holiday haul, it is a real cut. The open questions are how fast Ricoh actually delivers, and whether a bag-based system holds up in December, when the constraint on a big haul may be bag space rather than price.

Sources

• WDW News Today, "Walt Disney World Overhauls Home Shipping Policy, Guests No Longer Charged by Merchandise Value"
• The Ricoh Shipping Services instruction sheet and Shipment Insurance Rates table, as photographed by WDW News Today and read directly for this article
• The previous Walt Disney World shipping rate card, as photographed by WDW News Today in December 2025
• WDW News Today, "Disney World Home Shipping Price Increases From $40 to $100"

Image credits: all photographs courtesy of WDW News Today.