As most of you know the holidays are approaching. Below are the holiday schedules for Shipwire and some of the larger carriers.
Parcel carrier rate increases have been announced. The major small parcel carriers appear to be bracing for reduced volumes and potentially increased costs of doing business. At this point it is unclear how these prices will be impacted by the recent crude oil price decreases. [Update on 11/25/08: There are reports of UPS and FedEx reducing Fuel Surcharges for the holidays.]
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As of January 30th, 2009 the small parcel shipping market just got a lot less competitive. Logistics provider DHL plans to exit the ground and air express markets in the U.S. and focus all U.S. resources solely on the international market (import/export) business.
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RedRoller.com was an online shipping comparison site. Plug in the address your shipping from and shipping to and Red Roller would present discounted shipping options and allow a small business retailer to buy postage and print shipping labels. Redroller.com has ceased operations and as of this post is going through a chapter 7 bankruptcy. (See financials).
Redroller.com had positioned itself as a shipping 2.0 company. That said, Entrepreneur wrote a nice article on Shipwire being a Shipping 2.0 virtual warehouse company.
If you were a Red Roller user, please note that you can get shipping rate comparisons inside the Shipwire free trial. If you want to compare and print postage Shipwire “Print from my desk” can do that for you as well.
If you are a developer that wants to integrate shipping rates into your shopping cart or build a rate comparison tool please check out our parcel shipping rate web services API and XML toolkits.
We hope this helps.
If you ship USPS, your costs are going up for pretty much all USPS shipping services - Express Mail, Priority Mail, Parcel Select, Parcel Return Services, First Class Mail, Standard, Package Services. (more…)
The Shipwire engineering, operations and development staff have been incredibly busy over the past couple months releasing new warehouse management, inventory management and order fulfillment features and service offerings.
There has been so many new features released in the past few weeks that I’m having trouble keeping up to date blogging all the details and uploading screenshots. Rather than cry about it, I’m going to celebrate it with a long blog post with lots of new features. If your interested in seeing it all and playing with the system functionality please create an account or free trial (no credit card, only an e-mail address). (more…)
Shipwire offers warehouses in the U.S. and Canada. In Canada we offer warehouses in Toronto and Vancouver. There are many benefits gained by leveraging Shipwire’s Canadian warehouse network to power your business. (more…)
Shipwire has implemented a new Shipping Preferences option that allows merchants to greatly improve the handling of their outbound shipping by applying rules and preferences to inbound orders. Now if you want to hold any order over $200 in value, so that you can approve it after reviewing it, you can. (more…)