Ecommerce Industry News
Fashion shopping app Poshmark and the US Postal Service have embarked upon an exclusive partnership featuring Poshmark-branded shipping labels for their sellers. The new program, called PoshPost now features a shipping rate for buyers of $4.99 on all orders, […]
Online merchants are already challenged in meeting the expectations of shoppers who wish to get their orders delivered fast and free. Now Amazon and the USPS are adding another standard that online consumers may come […]
A man who ordered tractor parts online for over one thousand dollars has sued the United States of America and the U.S. Postal Service, claiming the USPS lost his package but refused to honor his […]
Should the USPS get into the financial services business as it searches for additional revenue streams? That’s an idea that the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) proposed in a recent report. The OIG suggests […]
There are signs that same-day delivery may not be as winning a model as some had hoped. The USPS suspended one of two pilot programs called Metro Post due to a lack of participation from […]
Online sellers keep a close eye on shipping costs, and this week we’ve been bringing you content about the USPS postage rate changesthat took effect on Sunday. In keeping with the theme of saving time and […]
In November, the U.S. Postal Service launched a Retail Partner Expansion Program pilot with Staples, an office-products chain-store. Under the pilot program, Staples sells postal products and services at select stores in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California […]
Small online merchants and marketplace sellers rely on the USPS for much of their shipping needs, including Priority Mail. The Postal Service filed its price changes for 2014 with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) last […]
The U.S. Postal Service on Friday released the latest in a series of gloomy financial reports, announcing a loss of $5 billion for the 2013 fiscal year, ending on Sept. 30. That marks the seventh […]
Like death and taxes, annual rate hikes from shipping carriers are a certainty – the only positive thing about them is that they occur after the holiday shopping season. This week, the other shoe dropped […]