Shipping Feature: Delivering a Profit
Can't change your packaging? Take advantage of free packaging like Priority Mail and use unlimited weight, flat-rate envelopes and boxes. In addition, FedEx SmartPost and other parcel select providers don't use dimensional weight pricing. Finally, many regional parcel carriers offer weight-based pricing and/or more favorable dimensional weight policies than FedEx and UPS.
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.
