In June, word leaked that FedEx would no longer deliver Amazon packages by air, and today, both companies confirmed they were ending their ground-delivery contract as well. Amazon has relied more heavily on UPS and USPS than on FedEx anyway, Read more
The US Postal Service is hosting a webinar to show sellers how direct mail can help drive mobile sales. The USPS 2019 Mobile Shopping Promotion Webinar will be held online (via WebEx) on Wednesday, July 31, 2019 at 2 PM Read more
UPS has begun onboarding customers for its new UPS My Choice for Business service, calling it “the first visibility and tracking solution in the U.S. designed for small and medium-sized businesses.” Later this year, it will add features including delivery Read more
ShipRush, now owned by Descartes Systems Group, has added support for LTL Freight (less than truckload). The new offering will make it easier for Descartes ShipRush customers to evaluate parcel and LTL options to make better shipping decisions for their Read more
If you’re having a paper-towel emergency, which online marketplace should you turn to? The topic came up last week and raises questions beyond the obvious ones like, who has a paper-towel emergency and under what circumstances? During his keynote address Read more
UPS announced a number of initiatives on Monday including a move to 7-day pickup and delivery. The shipping carrier appears to be reacting in part to rival FedEx which in May announced it was moving to 7-day Ground residential delivery Read more
ShipWorks launched ShipWorks for Warehouse, a new service that helps high-volume merchants get products to customers efficiently. The offering helps shippers with one warehouse or many, who use one shipping carrier or multiple, and is designed to help sellers scale Read more
Online marketplaces continue to pressure sellers to offer free shipping, with Etsy the latest to launch a new initiative. We surveyed sellers about major changes coming to the Etsy marketplace, and eBay sellers should pay close attention – they could Read more
Sellers must now pay much more to ship large, lightweight packages due to a DIM Weight pricing change the USPS rolled out on June 23rd. But there’s one thing that is tripping up some sellers when they try to determine Read more
eBay informed UK sellers it is replacing its same-day delivery service offering. It began offering Shutl as a delivery option in the UK in 2016, and next month it will replace Shutl with Packlink, effective July 25, 2019. eBay UK Read more
