Spend Matters
Spend Matters welcomes this guest post by Jim Haller, program director, Transportation Services, at NPI, a spend management consultancy, focused on eliminating overspending on IT, telecom and shipping.
Believe it or not, not every carrier rate increase is bad news and such may be the case for the USPS. Recently, the Postal Service filed a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to raise rates for a few of its small parcel delivery services – most notably its Parcel Select offerings, which would increase by 8% (domestic Priority Mail rates will go unchanged).
The Parcel Select service is most commonly known as “the other half” of the hybrid, last-mile shipping services offered by UPS, FedEx and DHL. If you’ve ever used UPS SurePost or FedEx SmartPost to ship goods, then Parcel Select is the service that’s…