The 50 Best Tips

— Sharon Neuenfeldt, Decision Intelligence, “Seven Tips to Stem Losses from Unaccounted Movers,” April 10, Catalog Success Idea Factory

✱ Maximize presort savings.

If a shipper doesn’t mind adding about a day to shipping times, presorting will save money. If the volume is high enough, a shipper can qualify for five-digit discounted rates. If a company doesn’t ship enough to qualify for five-digit presorting, then perhaps it can find another company that ships similarly sized items to get the discount by shipping together.