Packing is the last stage in order fulfillment before the package is shipped. It’s an important part of your order fulfillment process that you should look at carefully when designing your fulfillment process. There are some technical and marketing duties of a good package as well as some fundamental basics most businesses can follow. Read More…

Incorrectly weighing a package can be easily done when you’re in a hurry or have a lot of packages to weigh. Fortunately, many shipping carriers can tack on extra postage for you (you’ll still have to pay for that extra postage though!) as long as they have a way to charge you.

If you put a letter in the mail with no postage, it will get returned to you because they have no way of charging you for the extra postage. If you take that letter into the post office to mail it, they can add a postage stamp and charge you right there for it. Read More…

What makes a shipping label a shipping label? What are the important parts?

Here we’ll talk about some of the major parts of a shipping label. While we won’t go into detail in this post, we’ll give you a good overview about what you’re looking at when you’re looking at your shipping label. Read More…

Here’s a round-up of some popular posts and interesting articles we talked about this week (plus a sneak peek of what’s coming up next week!) in a brief, easy to digest post. Read More…

When selling through eBay you’re recommended to use PayPal for many transactions. However, when you use PayPal the shipping label prints on one sheet and the packing list on another sheet. Having your order information spread out across multiple sheets can cause issues in the order fulfillment process, such as a customer receiving an incorrect order or slowed fulfillment time. Read More…

Printing your own shipping label sheets can be done with most office printers capable of printing on a regular, letter size sheet of paper. However, using an inkjet printer is not recommended since the barcode can come out a little blurry and un-scannable. Using a laser printer will typically get you the cleanest barcode…but what setting do you use on a laser printer to print shipping labels? Read More…

Here’s a round-up of some popular posts and interesting articles we talked about this week (plus a sneak peek of what’s coming up next week!) in a brief, easy to digest post.

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In an email we recently received a question about License Plate Number barcodes; more specifically, how to create your own. It is possible to create your own LPN barcode label sheets with just Microsoft Word® and a sheet of peel out labels. Read More…

LTL and FTL are abbreviations for Less than Truckload and Full Truckload, respectively. When you’re doing large shipments that weigh over 150 pounds you need to start using your larger shipping options.

The abbreviations are made up of the first letter of the first word (L for Less or F for Full) and the letters “TL” which stand for “Truckload”.

Let’s talk about what LTL and FTL are and when to use them. Read More…

Here’s a round-up of some popular posts and interesting articles we talked about this week (plus a sneak peek of what’s coming up next week!) in a brief, easy to digest post. Read More…