Ecommerce Industry News
In November, the U.S. Postal Service launched a Retail Partner Expansion Program pilot with Staples, an office-products chain-store. Under the pilot program, Staples sells postal products and services at select stores in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California […]
This week Etsy informed sellers of changing postal rates, and warned that the postage rate changes at the USPS and Canadian postal service would automatically be reflected on any postage purchased through Etsy Shipping Labels once the […]
Each January we ask a panel of industry experts to participate in our “Online Selling Trends” series, asking them about the challenges and opportunities they see for online sellers in the New Year. This year, […]
Over the holidays, StellaService set out to test merchants when it came to delivering orders in time for Christmas, and ordered a total of 75 packages to be delivered to locations around the country. StellaService is a […]
Online merchants are looking at ways to get packages into the hands of customers more quickly and efficiently, and this year’s holiday-delivery fiasco demonstrates how tough the challenge will be. The well publicized problems of shipping carriers […]
Despite a holiday shopping season that was six days shorter than the 2012 edition, US consumers still spent $42.8 billion from their desktop PCs between Thanksgiving and December 22 according to comScore. But quite a few […]
Some online shoppers failed to receive their orders in time for Christmas, with UPS issuing a warning on Christmas Eve that the volume of air packages in its system exceeded the capacity of its network, […]
Retailers and marketplaces extended shipping cutoff dates to entice last-minute shoppers in a game of chicken, which they ultimately lost. Shipping carriers were unable to keep up with demand from online retailers, including Amazon, this […]
eBay’s shipping calculator is in violation of another company’s patents, according to a lawsuit filed on December 20th. Paid Inc. is suing eBay for patent infringement, claiming it had demonstrated its online shipping calculator to […]
The US Postal Service received permission to raise postage rates higher than the Consumer Price Index (CPI) due to lost revenue caused by the 2008 – 2009 recession, but only on a temporary basis. The […]