2024 Holiday Shipping Deadlines and Surcharges

2024 Holiday Shipping Deadlines and Surcharges

As the 2024 holiday season approaches, businesses and consumers alike face the challenge of ensuring timely gift deliveries amidst increased shipping demands. With peak season and holiday shipping deadlines and surcharges already announced by major carriers,...
Why Your 3PL Holiday Logistics Might Fail & How To Avoid It

Why Your 3PL Holiday Logistics Might Fail & How To Avoid It

For many businesses, the holiday season represents a make-or-break moment. While the increase in orders can be exciting, the race to keep up with them can bring up a number of issues for both your business and 3PL. These holiday logistics failures—ranging from...
4 Common Holiday Logistics Pitfalls & How to Avoid Them

4 Common Holiday Logistics Pitfalls & How to Avoid Them

The holiday season is a crucial time for your business—and oftentimes one of the most stressful. As demand skyrockets, it can be a struggle for even the most experienced business to keep their 3PL operations running smoothly. And, without the proper preparation, this...
2023 Holiday Shipping Deadlines

2023 Holiday Shipping Deadlines

The holiday season brings joy and togetherness, but it also ushers in the annual challenge of ensuring timely gift deliveries. Far too often, consumers find themselves in a last-minute frenzy, desperately trying to secure the timely arrival of their Christmas...
Peak Season Planning Checklist

Peak Season Planning Checklist

The holiday season, for many companies, will make or break their year and potentially the future of the business. With an influx in demand that can often be 3 to 5 times or more of the average shipping volume, operations must execute at an extremely high level and...
The Return Apocalypse: Avoiding Holiday Return Fraud

The Return Apocalypse: Avoiding Holiday Return Fraud

Shipping deadlines have come and gone, most of the shopping panic is over, and now it’s time for retailers to focus on something more daunting: the return apocalypse. According to Appriss’ return fraud results from the National Retail Federation 2017 Organized Crime...