Shipping Feature: Delivering a Profit
The Postal Service offers a low-cost, deferred ground service called Parcel Select for lightweight, nonurgent, low-value residential deliveries. Parcel Select is a nonguaranteed service with three-day to seven-day delivery standards, and is typically offered through postal consolidators like FedEx SmartPost, UPS SurePost, UPS Mail Innovations, DHL Global Mail, OSM Worldwide, Newgistics, and others. Consolidators use USPS Parcel Select services by handling pickup, sortation, transportation and induction to the USPS hub, while the USPS handles the "final mile" delivery. In addition to significant savings over ground residential service, other benefits of using postal consolidators include improved shipment visibility and less handling and damage.
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.
