Parcel Shipping

New Parcel shipping software helps you manage the entire process for shipping.

Order fulfillment and logistics teams should be looking at peak season planning year-round to keep their operations prepared.

Increasing customer demands, unprecedented cargo logjams, workforce shortages, carrier capacity constraints, and the lasting effects of the pandemic have made supply chains more volatile than ever.

Following approval by the U.S. House of Representatives on February 8, the United States Senate followed suit yesterday, in also signing off on the Postal Service Reform Act, legislation that is focused on augmenting the financial health of the long-beleaguered United States Postal Service (USPS). The next step for the legislation is for it to be signed into law by President Biden.

The impact of e-commerce on freight transportation has been profound, and it’s not restricted to any single mode—in fact, all have been affected. What’s the reality and what does it mean going forward?

Retailers, 3PLs, and eCommerce companies can leverage Intelligent Enterprise Robotic solutions to take advantage of zone skipping to reduce shipping costs.

Data recently issued by ShipMatrix, a subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based SJ Consulting showed that data from on-time performance (OTP) ranges, for week 50 of 2021 for major parcel carriers, including UPS, FedEx, and the United States Postal Service (USPS), was in similar range as previous weeks leading up to it that were comprised of Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday.

In this article and video, you’ll learn about the three types of rate shopping ProShip multi-carrier shipping software offers and what situations they are best suited for.

In this podcast we discuss how technology can help global parcel shippers gain more carrier access and better manage capacity.

This data is based on millions of packages shipped via UPS, FedEx, and USPS.

Now that businesses have survived the 2020 peak season and seen the strain on their shipping budget, how can they better prepare for the upcoming peak shipping season?

During this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Tim Sailor, Founder of Navigo Consulting Group.

Due to a whole host of factors—including, most notably, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, more people staying at and working from home, among others—has led to a spate in e-commerce-based parcel shipping activity, which kicked off, in earnest, in March 2020, and has not subsequently abated since then. That was a key takeaway from the new edition of the Parcel Shipping Index, which was recently released by Stamford, Ct.-based Pitney Bowes, a global technology services provider of...

The convenience of getting products delivered quickly will be greatly enhanced by the ideal of supporting local businesses and workers like Sam.

Plans for this facility were initially introduced by DHL in November 2019, and the company said that this new facility, which it invested $100 million (CAD) into, represents the largest DHL Express Canadian-based gateway by volume, at 238,000 square-feet, four times larger than the previous facility that is also at Hamilton International Airport.