Shipping Feature: Delivering a Profit
The Postal Service offers other unique advantages as well. It's the only carrier that can put items in mailboxes, P.O. boxes or residential mail slots. The USPS offers free package pickup six days a week and has the most package drop-off points in the country. It doesn't impose surcharges on out-of-area deliveries, Saturday delivery, residential delivery or fuel. The USPS has also developed convenient, unlimited weight products which feature predetermined rates regardless of weight or destination.
Rob Martinez is the CEO of Shipware LLC, a professional services firm that transforms businesses through intelligent distribution solutions and strategies. Rob has helped some of the world’s most recognizable brands reduce parcel shipping costs an average of 25 percent through contract negotiations, rate benchmarking, modal optimization, invoice audit and other savings vehicles. A cum laude graduate of UCLA, Rob has 20 years of transportation industry experience, including executive positions at DHL and Stamps.com, in addition to his work as an outside consultant since 2001.
