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Last-Mile Delivery Optimization: Strategies For Better Shipping
Last-mile delivery is a crucial aspect of the shipping process: It can be the difference between a satisfied or dissatisfied customer, and it can heavily impact your bottom line. Last-mile delivery — in which a package leaves the fulfillment center to its final...
Right-Sizing Shipping Boxes Could Save Your Cosmetics Brand Millions
In an industry that scrutinizes details – formulas, packaging, influencers – many brands overlook the most basic, customer-facing element: the delivery box. Here's why you should prioritize right-sizing shipping boxes. As an experienced logistics company working with...
6 Tips for Scaling Parcel Shipping Operations for Growth
Investing in automation and optimization software gives you greater supply chain visibility, tighter inventory management controls, and access to better rates through multiple carriers. Parcel is having a moment. In 2022, there were 173 billion parcels shipped...
How Cartonization Works to Reduce Shipping Costs and Waste
The cost savings and efficiencies high-volume shippers can gain from packing items in exactly the right size box can be significant. We’ve all been there — you order a few small things online that arrive in a huge box. Why has the shipper packed them in a box that’s...
7 Reasons Why a Multi-Carrier Shipping Solution (Almost Always) Beats A Single-Carrier Strategy
Summary: A single-carrier strategy eliminates flexibility and price and service competition from other carriers. A multi-carrier shipping solution allows users to take advantage of a wide range of shipping options and services. Service disruptions are far less...
Testimonial: Order Fulfillment Specialist
As one of SHIPSTORE’s original consumers based in Houston, TX, together we share common core values of accuracy, experience, quality, customer service and technology. Having moved into their new 160,000 square ft. building in May 2004, they now enjoy an expansive...