The USPS is launching a new site on September 30 that will help small- and medium-sized businesses get discounts through approved consolidators. Press release follows: The United States Postal Service (USPS) will launch a new website Sept. 30 for small- Read more
Four marketplaces have created a network to help 30,000 online merchants expand their reach beyond their own country, according to former eBay employee Leonardo Costa, who sent the news to EcommerceBytes. Costa now runs ePrice in Italy. Partnering with his Read more
UPS expanded its ground package sortation and distribution facility in Tennessee. The highly automated sortation and distribution facility has been expanded to over 447,000 square feet, nearly doubling package sortation capacity. The expansion is part of UPS’s multi-year strategic investment Read more
Poshmark announced it has paid out over $1 billion to its 7 million sellers in the past year, and $2 billion altogether. Poshmark takes a 20% commission on the sale of goods on its site (or a flat fee of Read more
eBay announced it was adding a unique code to the address line of all orders. It didn’t divulge the reason for the special code, so it’s unclear if this feature will be rolling out to other sites. eBay Australia Announcement Read more
Etsy added new features to its seller ad program. The features appear to add some basic functionality for sellers who want to review their campaign performance or start and stop advertising on a listing level. According to the announcement: “Yesterday Read more
The US had threatened to leave the UPU over concerns about low shipping costs of Chinese imports, but a compromise was reached on Wednesday. The US will remain in the Universal Postal Union (UPU) after member countries reach unanimous agreement Read more
Discount retailer Marshalls launched an ecommerce website on Tuesday, which sounds more like a headline from the early 2000s than 2019. Should online sellers be worried about the competition? Will Marshalls open is store to third-party sellers? Time will tell. Read more
Pinterest is launching new tools to help brands and retailers reach shoppers – and of course, the new tools help Pinterest generate additional ad revenue. “Businesses can seamlessly turn their product feed into inspiring, actionable Pinterest ads,” it announced in Read more
Amazon wants teachers and school administrators to think of its marketplace when procuring items for the classroom, and Daniel Smith, Global Leader of Education at Amazon Business, published a blog post describing some of the ways educators were doing so. Read more
