Talk about company loyalty. More than 100 GSI Commerce employees dropped everything to help out at two company fulfillment centers in late November after learning client orders had vastly exceeded earlier holiday season estimates. Employees from New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Florida flew to GSI centers in Trade Port and Richwood, Kentucky to pitch in…

Procrastinating holiday shoppers, rejoice. This coming Monday, Dec. 17, is “free shipping day,” a recurring one-day holiday whereby consumers can comfortably still order gifts online and know they will be delivered gratis by Christmas Eve. eBay and PayPal will once again be active participants. Currently, over half of all eBay transactions involve free shipping. Of…

eBay just announced that sellers will soon be able to print FedEx labels through eBay’s single label printing flow, allowing them to offer another reputable, reliable shipping service to buyers. Bloomberg reported on the news, noting that eBay merchants will be able to print FedEx labels at home and ship at a discount of as…

The UPS Special Pricing Program for eBay Sellers now includes discounts for air and international shipments.

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Last Friday, the US Postal Service (USPS) announced that it was taking “aggressive steps to cut costs” and revealed the closing of six of its 80 district offices. The six offices closing were located in Lake Mary, FL; North Reading, MA; Manchester, NH; Edison, NJ; Erie, PA, and Spokane, WA.

In a continuing effort to provide all questions and answers that came out of the Summit last week – and the questions asked here on the blog – here is part 2 of the Q&A. This post highlights the ongoing shipping & handling discussion that came out of the “Navigating the Changes at eBay” panel….

I received a number of questions regarding cross-border trade practices in the first few days of the blog and, over the weekend, Scot Wingo proposed in eBay Strategies that “Confusion abounds over eBay’s new International Visibility Offering” so I decided to go off on my first recon mission. One of the initial questions raised on…