The U.S. Postal Service will deliver packages seven days a week in major cities and high-volume areas starting November 17 and running through Christmas Day. From an operations standpoint, keeping packages moving on those 5 Sundays before Christmas likely makes Read more
The U.S. Postal Service is expecting much higher package volume this holiday season – roughly 12-14% percent more than last year. That includes packages that are delivered on Christmas Day – in fact, last year, the USPS delivered over 75,000 Read more
Canada’s postal service is preparing for the busy holiday season and will deliver packages on weekends. Starting November 2, Canada Post will be delivering parcels on weekends, which translates into approximately 200,000 delivery hours across Canada over the holiday period. Read more
A company called ShippingEasy wants to make it super easy for low-volume sellers to buy postage online and print shipping labels, and on Wednesday launched the EasyShip widget. Unlike its robust ShippingEasy solution, which lets merchants pull orders from multiple Read more
Two companies that help online merchants with their shipping automation were scooped up this year by Stamps.com, highlighting the importance of ecommerce to the shipping industry. Stamps.com paid $22 million in cash for ShipWorks this month, and it paid $50 million (plus Read more
Amazon is working with the USPS, offering it a variety of innovative services, including same-day delivery and Sunday delivery. The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) has now granted the Postal Service permission to test a new grocery-delivery service called Customized Delivery, Read more
The USPS has published its “Mail-By” dates. To ensure that holiday mail and packages are delivered in time for Christmas (December 25, 2014), the Postal Service recommends the following mailing and shipping deadlines: Dec. 2: First-Class Mail International Dec. 2: Read more
As with the certainty of death and taxes, online merchants can count on shipping costs to rise each year, even as consumers increasingly expect to receive free shipping. Like clockwork, UPS is raising rates for 2015, and sellers who use Read more
It may have seemed like a joke when eBay CEO John Donahoe told BusinessWeek that excess capacity in newspaper trucks could make same-day delivery economical. But one major rival is taking the concept seriously. Amazon is using the same logistics network that Read more
A lot of time and money is being invested into ways to get ecommerce orders delivered into the hands of consumers. UPS began laying the groundwork for package pickup a few years ago as an alternative to at-home delivery. It’s Read more
