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Honest review on shipping experience: Book Depository

If you are buying books online and looking for great price and free shipping worldwide, Book Depository is one of the best options. Today I am going to order a

Monday News

e-Commerce Logistics Weekly Updates (Dec 14 2015)

Here's the quick summary of e-Commerce and logistics news in the previous week. Enjoy! 1. Logistics Updates Postmates planning to launch in Canada and UK source: betaboston.com Speaking at the TechCrunch Disruption conference in London earlier this week, CEO Bastian Lehmann said that

Thursday Postmen

Postmen Labels v3 API (beta) - Request Structure

Today I am going to walk through the basic structure of Postmen labels API for generating shipping labels of a carrier. Note that we expect to make some changes in Q2 2016. When using Postmen RESTful JSON API to create shipping labels, you are

Wednesday Fulfillment

Shipping labels 101 - 3 ways to create shipping labels online

Fulfillment Wednesday yeah - it is my favorite day as I got to learn what matters for an online retailer shipping an order. Today I will go through different options of creating shipping labels online. What are shipping labels Shipping labels basically detail the

Tuesday Shopping

Honest review on shipping experience: iHerb

Shopping tuesday - today I will be ordering at iHerb - great pricing and delivery choices for international order for buying healthy and organic products. Shop at: iherb.com Deliver to: Hong Kong Buy what: Protein Powder, Laundry Detergent, Tea...(11 items) Order Time:

Monday News

e-Commerce Logistics Weekly Updates (Dec 7 2015)

Here's the quick summary of e-Commerce and logistics news in the previous week. Enjoy! 1. Logistics Updates Uber blocked on WeChat in China...not cool not cool Tencent has blocked Uber on the top 1 china mobile messaging app WeChat with ~600 million monthly

Thursday Postmen

Postmen now supports 23 couriers

We have actually paused integrating new couriers, even though we can. Reason is that we are cleaning up some codes and collecting user feedback before we are going to accelerate the integration speed in Q1 2016. Postmen now support 23 couriers: Aramex [Bpost International]

Wednesday Fulfillment

How to setup carrier shipping rates at Shopify checkout?

Fulfillment Wednesday again :) Today we are going to teach you how to setup shipping rates at Shopify checkout page. Step 1: Setup shipping zone a. Head to Settings > Shipping

Tuesday Shopping

Honest review on shipping experience: Apple Store (mobile)

Today I am going to shop at Apple Store via their mobile app, and buy the new Apple TV. Follow this post which I will go through the whole shopping and delivery experience from checkout, delivery to return. Shop at: Apple Store Deliver to:

Monday News

e-Commerce Logistics Weekly Updates (Nov 30 2015)

Hello Monday, e-Commerce logistics has been happening last week. This 1-min quick summary will list out the key news over the last 7 days. 1. Logistics Updates China soon to be the largest market for Uber? Yes, soon to be. Usage of Uber in

Thursday Postmen

Postmen the name

Weekend is almost here :) Today is Postmen Thursday which I will talk about the brand name Postmen. Why we call it Postmen Great name. Postmen is plural form of postman, which represent the idea of Postmen API supporting multiple shipping carriers. What means by

Wednesday Fulfillment

What is manifest, end of day form, scan form?

Today is fulfillment wednesday, which I will go through issues, questions or topics we came across when shipping. Today's topic is manifest, which is also called end of day form or scan form for some carriers. What is manifest? Manifest is sort of a

Tuesday Shopping

Honest review on shipping experience: Taobao

Tuesday is about shopping and shipping. Today we are going to order something from Taobao, i.e. the China Amazon, and let you know the checkout process, delivery options, and shipping experience. Shop at: Taobao Tmall Deliver to: Hong Kong Deliver from: China Buy

Monday News

e-Commerce Logistics Weekly Updates (Nov 23 2015)

Happy Monday! We will give you a quick media summary of e-Commerce logistics news in the previous week. 1. Logistics Updates Royal Mail's latest moves BBC wrote that Royal Mail has reported a near 15% fall in half-year profits with revenues little-changed across its

Thursday Postmen

Why do we need another shipping API?

Every Thursday, we will be talking about how/why/what for Postmen which you will learn about new features, updates or even team culture at Postmen. Today I will talk about our reason of developing this Postmen product and struggles about the pricing plan.

Wednesday Fulfillment

Shipping Apps Comparison: ShipStation, ShippingEasy, Shippo

Every Wednesday, we will be talking about fulfillment tools, processes and tips that make merchants ship faster. We will be reviewing the top shipping apps in the market - ShipStation,

Tuesday Shopping

Honest review on shipping experience: lululemon athletica

Every tuesday, we will be doing some online shopping. The post will focus on the delivery experience from the checkout process, the actual package delivery (or store pick up), to the return process. We want to discover the best practices in the industry, and

Monday News

e-Commerce Logistics Weekly Updates (Nov 16 2015)

On every Monday, Postmen team will cover key e-Commerce logistics news happening in the past week, from Amazon to Alibaba, and UPS to Uber (and of course any new cool startups!). We will also posting insights from the industry leaders. 1. Logistics Updates FedEx