Despite a massive fleet, state-of-the-art tracking systems, and delivery procedures, your customers’ parcels shipped through United Parcel Service (UPS) can be delayed, lost, or damaged in transit. Behemoths such as UPS...
Category - Global Shipping Carriers
Deepa Shankar
Sashank Ravindranath
DHL Vs. FedEx Vs. UPS: Shipping Carriers Compared
Choosing the carrier from the list of companies is obviously a tedious process. Each carrier has its own set of strengths and weaknesses, it is important to understand what they are and how well they suit your business...
Joelah James
Rohan Rinaldo Felix
Meet Carbon Surcharge: The newest addition to your shipping invoices
Major carriers all around the world increase the rates of their services at an average of 4 – 6% YoY. While carriers transfer this burden of inflation to shippers via increased merchants, most merchants do not do...
A Guide to FedEx and UPS Delivery Signature Options
In the world of shipping and logistics, ensuring your packages reach their destination safely and securely is crucial and carriers ensure their full-on commitment to it. One aspect of this process is the carrier getting...
FedEx & UPS Rate Increase for 2024
Introduction To The Rate Increase By Fedex And Ups In 2024 Counterparts, rivals, competitors — call them what you want. Shipping behemoths FedEx and UPS follow almost identical practices when it comes to services or...
Shipping Insurance Guide for E-commerce Businesses
As an e-commerce business owner, you’re no stranger to the intricate world of shipping and logistics. You work tirelessly to ensure that your products are carefully packaged, promptly shipped, and arrive safely in...
How to Ensure Better Performance from Shipping Carriers
The Importance of On-time Delivery On-time deliveries are a business’ best practice. Yet they do not captivate customers like same-day delivery or free shipping promises do. However, failing to make on-time deliveries...
How to Reduce the Impact of Oversize Charge on Shipping Costs
Shipping is an expensive part of any ecommerce business. Therefore, it is wise to cut corners wherever you can to save on costs and grow your business. However, that may not be as easy as it sounds. Your shipping bills...
Porch Pirates: How to Handle Them and Prevent Package Theft
Imagine if a product you’ve longed to collect for years gets stolen from you. And guess what? It was stolen right at your doorstep by fellow people dubbed ‘the porch pirates.’Package thefts are so...
How to File FedEx Claims for Late Deliveries
FedEx is one of the top-three behemoths in not just the US but in the worldwide shipping carrier and delivery services space (the other two being DHL and UPS).Did you know that FedEx delivers more than 12 million...
2021 State of Holiday Shipping in the US
The pandemic has largely disrupted holiday shipping in 2021, with a surge in online purchases, record shipping costs, port congestion, and inventory shortage.Not to forget, the heavy weightage that has fallen on the...
Shipping Carriers’ 100% Money-Back Guarantee Policies and Why Avoid Signing Refund Waivers
Shipping is an area of e-commerce business that is highly risk-worthy and more prone to errors than the other phases of the order journey. The carriers responsible for your customers’ orders during this stage are very...
5 Tips to Get the Best out of Your Package Shipping Carrier
Millions of international packages make their way to destination points and cross borders every day. And the vast majority of them are the goods people buy from eCommerce businesses operating globally. While it’s no...
Ian
Everything You Need to Know about the Changes Made to Canada Post, UPS, FedEx and Purolator’s Money-back Guarantee
This article has been updated as of 23rd August, 2021. It’s been a year since the COVID-19 pandemic debuted and created panic across the globe, dramatically changing the way we live our lives. The eCommerce retail...
Lost Packages 101: How to Handle Them
When you ship through DHL, FedEx, UPS, or USPS most packages make it to their destinations intact and on time. But, what about those rare occurrences when packages are lost in transit? Who exactly gets blamed when this...
[COVID-19] Service Updates from FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL, & Canada Post
With updates as of July 31, 2020.With most people staying indoors & practicing social distancing, isolation or quarantining, there has been a spike in online shopping over the past few months. Major eCommerce...
Naveen Selvaraj
All You Need to Know About Amazon Logistics in 2019
Introduction In the world of last-mile deliveries in the US, 2019 is a landmark year; For the first time in a very very long time, the duopoly of FedEx and UPS in the US market is being seriously challenged by a...
Sriram Sridhar