While two-thirds of small-to-medium-sized ecommerce companies offer free shipping, only 3% of them are offering same-day or next-day shipping, as the economics don’t work for smaller online merchants, according to a new survey by Shippo.
Eagle Foods has increased its compliance score with Walmart’s new, stricter vendor shipping requirements through a freight consolidation program. See what the new program requires and how Eagle has been able to hit the tight windows.
UPS said there will be delivery delays through the middle of this week due to a deluge in ecommerce orders beginning on Cyber Monday and in the days following.
Looking to make up ground on rivals UPS and FedEx during peak season, DHL is in the midst of an expansion effort that includes hiring 6,000 temporary workers across its four business units in North America, adding flights and piloting robotic and augmented reality technologies.
Just in time for the busy holiday season, FedEx announced it now has pickup locations at 7,500 Walgreens stores across the U.S., shy of the 8,000 it promised to have online by the end of October when the deal was announced in January.
One thing that both Amazon’s Prime Day and Singles Day have in common is their ability to orchestrate the shipping of over a billion digital purchases in a short, saturated amount of time. Here are several ways Amazon and Alibaba approach shipping.
ShipStation released its shipping cutoff dates for the holiday season. This infographic includes shipping dates from the top three U.S. shipping carriers, UPS, FedEx and USPS. Here is the list of dates.
Following a similar move by Target, Best Buy is offering free shipping on most orders between now and Christmas, waiving its standard $35 minimum order threshold.
With an estimated $3 billion left on the table each year in unclaimed refunds from major carriers for errors such as late or wrong deliveries, a software company has figured out how to automate the claims process and win some of that money back for its shipper clients.
Effective Dec. 24 (yes, you read that correctly), rates for UPS Ground, UPS Air and International services as well as UPS Air Freight rates within and between the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico will increase an average of 4.9%. Here’s an analysis of UPS’s changes and the impact they will have on parcel shippers.