The US Postal Service reported first quarter results for fiscal year 2016 on Tuesday (October through December 2015). Operating revenue grew 3 percent year over year to $19.3 billion, driven by the record volume of packages delivered during the 2015 Read more
Online sellers who use Auctiva to help manage their eBay listings should be aware of a planned outage for this evening. Listings scheduled to post to eBay during the outage will post beforehand. Shawn Horswill, the General Manager of SaaS Read more
Nothing draws the ire of some US sellers more than the fact that it’s cheaper for Chinese companies to ship certain products to the US than they can thanks to USPS ePacket rates. But what may be far more worrying Read more
A former executive of Mastro Auctions received a nearly 5-year sentence in a shill-bidding case that brought down the once renowned Chicago auction house. Doug Allen, along with William Mastro and Mark Theotikos, were indicted in 2012 on fraud charges Read more
How do you increase email open and click-through rates around the Valentine’s Day holiday? GoDaddy analyzed its data and found that small businesses can improve their email campaigns, even if their business has nothing to do with flowers or chocolate. Read more
As online shopping evolves, so does the area of ecommerce package-delivery. Postal leaders will gather near Washington DC next month to explore the “B2Me consumer empowerment phenomenon” and how it impacts the changing global postal ecosystem. In its 6th year, Read more
eBay made an interesting promise to help online sellers with several shipping problems involving Post Office window clerks. During its weekly chat with online sellers, eBay’s Jim “Griff” Griffith provided instructions on how to report two common problems sellers encounter. Read more
A congressman introduced a bill that would allow the United States Postal Service to offer basic financial services, and one aspect of the proposed legislation has the potential to impact ecommerce. Representative Cedric Richmond of Louisiana reintroduced the Providing Opportunities Read more
A growing number of sellers are experiencing the unthinkable: logging in to Amazon and learning they’ve been suspended. Hopefully Amazon will never suspend your selling account, but if you ever find yourself in that position, it’s critical you know the Read more
Bonanza will launch a new dashboard for sellers to provide them with more data about what’s driving traffic to their listings and other analytics. A new stats page will include two new reports: The Sales Graph will display information about Read more
