UPS is hiring 95,000 seasonal employees as it gears up for the holiday shopping season, which it said begins in November and continues through January. Last September it similarly announced it was expecting to hire about 95,000 seasonal employees. Press Read more
FedEx will raise rates in January, as it does every year. US shippers will pay an average of 4.9% more beginning January 1, 2018. FedEx is also raising rates for surcharges, including for Address Correction and Residential Delivery. Notably FedEx Read more
Pitney Bowes is expanding its ecommerce capabilities with the acquisition of Newgistics. The $475 million deal will help Pitney Bowes deliver a broader range of ecommerce and parcel-management solutions to retailers, small- and medium-sized businesses, and enterprise clients. Newgistics has Read more
eBay is going to roll out a new simplified search function in the next 60 days, according to a research note published Wednesday by Mark May of Citi, who hosted eBay CEO Devin Wenig for a fireside chat that morning Read more
The USPS will combine the My USPS and Informed Delivery platforms in September, offering consumers the ability to interact with their incoming mail and packages in one dashboard. Informed Delivery provides residential consumers with digital previews of their incoming mail, Read more
Online marketplace Bonanza advised sellers on the new USPS postage verification system that rolled out in the middle of the month. Beginning September 1st, Bonanza will start crediting any extra payments and billing overages back to Bonanza sellers who purchase Read more
Imagine paying for a service, then later receiving a bill because the company says you didn’t pay enough. That’s the discomfiture online sellers may start experiencing due to a change at the US Postal Service. On August 14th, the USPS Read more
Retail chainstore Target is acquiring Grand Junction, whose founder and CEO Rob Howard designed and implemented same-day and local delivery programs for Home Depot, Amazon, IKEA, Office Depot, Best Buy, Amerisource Bergen, McKesson, eBay and others. Target said the local-delivery Read more
The USPS saw flat revenue growth in its third fiscal quarter compared to the same quarter last year. The agency noted it saw lower volumes of First-Class Mail and Marketing Mail and continued growth in the lower-margin Shipping and Packages Read more
UPS is giving online sellers tools for managing returns. UPS is the first logistics provider to offer the ability to create a return shipment through a tracking results page – the outbound and return packages are linked in tracking, allowing Read more
