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
UPS Capital, the financing and insurance services arm of UPS, is offering B2B customers escrow services through Payoneer. It offers protection to sellers who are sourcing goods from overseas, for example. Not surprisingly, orders shipped within the worldwide UPS network Read more
Run out of toner or packing tape? Office-supplies chainstore Office Depot is betting you’ll be willing to pay extra to get your items quickly and is partnering with Deliv to offer same-day delivery in three markets. The move shows retailers Read more
Online sellers expecting FedEx to follow in its rival’s footsteps by implementing a holiday surcharge for residential deliveries were pleasantly surprised on Thursday. But while FedEx is taking a pass on implementing a holiday surcharge for residential deliveries, unlike UPS, Read more
Dsco helps retailers work with suppliers to create efficiencies in fulfillment and standardizing the way they exchange inventory, order, and catalog data. It’s now partnering with shipping software company Shippo to help clients make better informed decisions about which carrier Read more
Shyp is scaling back its pickup-and-packaging service and announced layoffs. CEO Kevin Gibbon explained in a blog post that Shyp is suspending operations in three of the four cities where it operates and will focus on achieving profitability in a Read more
The cost of sending bulk low-value, lightweight goods internationally will go up for some shippers next month. The USPS is lowering the discounts in contracts with consolidators that have Negotiated Service Agreements for International Priority Airmail (IPA) letters and International Read more
