Ecommerce helped Canada Post remain profitable in 2016 thanks to strong growth in the Parcels line of business aided by partnerships with retailers. The before-tax profit of $55 million compares to a before-tax profit of $63 million in 2015 – Read more
UPS and Sealed Air Corporation announced the opening of a Packaging Innovation Center in Kentucky to help online merchants and other shippers create efficient packaging and reduce both packaging and shipping costs. UPS issued the following press release: UPS and Read more
The Postal Regulatory Commission (Commission) issued its analysis of the United States Postal Service (Postal Service) fiscal year (FY) 2016 Annual Performance Report and fiscal year 2017 Performance Plan. Each year, the Commission must review the Postal Service’s performance goals, Read more
UPS announced plans to build a new $200 million package operations facility in Arlington, TX. The project will span more than 1,100,000 square feet on more than 110 acres. Powered by industry leading operational technology and equipment, the new UPS Read more
UPS is adding Saturday delivery to major metropolitan areas, it announced on Monday in the following press release: New Saturday ground pickups allow many businesses to have packages delivered to their customers on Monday, one business day earlier than before. Read more
Shipping services provider ShipRush has integrated with ecommerce platform Spark Pay. Vladislaw Poniedelnik published the following announcement on the ShipRush blog: Spark Pay merchants: Sell with Spark Pay, ship in ShipRush! Only ShipRush has side-by-side rate shopping, Discount Postage, Same Read more
Pitney Bowes Inc., the global technology leader that provides innovative solutions and services powering anywhere-to-everywhere commerce, at ShopTalk 2017 today, launched Complete Marketplace, the capable and scalable way for retailers to access leading marketplaces around the world. For retailers, the Read more
ShipStation, ecommerce’s most robust and fully featured web-based shipping solution, has completed an integration with GeekSeller, a multi-channel listing and inventory management solution that allows online retailers to manage their Jet.com seller accounts. GeekSeller’s app provides Jet.com sellers with an Read more
Pitney Bowes Inc., a global technology leader that provides innovative solutions and services powering anywhere-to-everywhere commerce, announced that it will launch its much anticipated Commerce Complete for Retail platform at next week’s ShopTalk in Las Vegas. Commerce Complete for Retail Read more
Canada Post published the following post to its blog last month: Are you a US-based merchant looking to grow? Just north of the border, a tremendous opportunity awaits in Canada. Canada boasts a prosperous economy and a sizeable population of Read more
