The number one reason online shoppers abandon their cart at checkout is due to the spike in price when shipping fees are included. National parcel carriers continue to implement monumental rate... View More
Last weekend my wife and I were craving a steak dinner. We grabbed the kids and headed to a well-known steakhouse chain, famous for their satisfaction guarantee on their food. Once seated, there... View More
When it comes to negotiating carrier agreements, carriers have a way of making shippers feel great about their discounts. However, more often than not, “fine print” gets in the way... View More
Want to know how to get the most value out of the time and money you spend on office shipping? To find that out, you must start with the data. This includes all the information you have about... View More
Parcel shipping charges can represent up to five to 10% of a company's total expenses. Fuel surcharges are driving that cost even higher. And shippers are looking to get a handle on the numerous surc... View More
Changes are afoot once again with the FedEx and UPS fuel surcharges. On March 7th, the FedEx fuel surcharge for Air and International will be 0% (yes, you read that right!) and Ground will... View More
Third-party shipping is a vital and ever growing area of today’s modern supply chain and one that UPS, through its 2016 GRI, has targeted for additional yields. Effective January 4th, 2016 UPS began
Forget limiting rate increases to occur on an annual basis. Apparently when you’re UPS and FedEx, you can decide to make adjustments or, more accurately, increases throughout the course of the... View More
For the third consecutive year at the PARCEL Forum, Shipware,LLC conducted a live parcel pricing and benchmarking surveyin which 77 shippers responded to survey questions about their parcel usage... View More
Over the past decade, UPS & FedEx have increased their Ground tariff rates 54.9% and their Air tariffs 61.8-66.1%. Those aren’t exactly small numbers. Adding insult to injury... View More
Costa Mesa, CA (PRWEB) – Lojistic, an innovative provider of transportation cost reduction services and software, is excited to announce its new instant parcel audit web tool. This free UPS an... View More
Are you capturing the dimensions of your LTL shipments before they’re picked up for delivery? You should be. Chances are good that your LTL carriers are – and their measurements can res... View More
Apparently, UPS didn’t like drop shipping. But, since they’ve recently figured out a way to drive additional revenue from every company that uses UPS to drop ship anything, UPS will now love
One of the most common challenges I hear from volume parcel shippers is that they don’t know how good – or bad – are the incentives, terms and structure of their carrier pricing agreemen
UPS announced 2016 rates.UPS is merging the Daily and Standard rate sheets and, with the exception of 3-day and Next Day AM services, the 2016 UPS Daily rates are identical to FedEx Standard rat... View More
We've all had this happen - we get a great coupon for a product we love. Almost free! Who can pass that up? Then we read the fine print - only valid on this product, on this day, during this hour. Gotcha!... View More
With so much focus on the recent changes to dimensional weight logic we want to be sure we do not overlook an equally impactful area concerning actual versus billed weights — Minimum Billable Weight... View More
Expectations have been set that FedEx and UPS will raise Ground rates on an annual basis. This year, however, rate increases have a stronger punch especially when considering additional changes, which... View More
It may appear odd to bring up the topic of preparing for the holiday peak season when we are so far away from the traditional peak shipping period. In order to make impactful changes though, one needs... View More
