PRC Chairman Blair Addresses Five-Day Delivery Prospect
Postmaster General John E. Potter
Operations & Fulfillment
Free shipping strategies: Merchants weigh in
Multichannel marketers consider their free shipping offers to be highly strategic and competitive.
Better Off With No Free S&H?
The rampant offers of free S&H have gotten out of hand, according to several merchants, and they
Handling employee references
No matter how great a candidate seems, how appealing, how experienced, how perfect a fit, you’re looking for trouble if you don’t check references before
Trends in S&H offers
If you looked at all the catalogs and promotions out there this past holiday season, there’s one phrase they have in common: free shipping. My company,
Improve margin via the back end
Why do many multichannel merchant start-ups struggle? To grow they need to price competitively; their fulfillment costs quickly accumulate; and their
Office Depot Consolidating Supply Chain
Not unlike many companies in the U.S. this year, office supplies cataloger/retailer Office Depot has seen better fiscal times.
Think inside the green box
Going green isn’t just about printing your catalog on recycled paper. Multichannel merchants today have many opportunities to reduce their carbon footprints
DHL Pulls Plug on Domestic Service
In an announcement surprising few logistics industry watchers, Deutsche Post, parent company of DHL, said this morning it is shutting down its DHL Express business in the U.S. as of Jan. 30, 2009
Cover Your Assets
Being in the Business of Helping organizations create better processes to control their inventory, I found it ironic when an insurance adjuster told me