Delivery Services
For all the efforts retailers put into merchandising and marketing—including e-commerce sites alive with video, zoom and Facebook Like buttons designed to engage shoppers, and new strategies for connecting with their mobile and social whereabouts—e-retailers still need to deliver the goods.
And as online retailing gets only more competitive with increasingly interactive web sites and new cross-channel shopping options, some retailers are turning to delivery services as another way to raise their level of customer service and the number of shopping options they offer customers. For some merchants, that means offering premium service options such as "white-glove" delivery treatment, where delivery personnel will bring items like computers, home appliances and furniture into a customer's home, set them up, and discard any packaging as well as the replaced items the customer no longer wants.
Delivery services like that can increase customer satisfaction, as can offering free or low-cost shipping. But it all comes at a price for e-retailers. Delivery costs typically account for about 8% of revenue, says Tim Sailor, principal of Navigo Consulting, a firm that advises retailers on shipping and delivery services. That means web retailers must work hard to get the best delivery deals, so they can offer the most appealing deals to consumers.
Dealing with rate hikes
To keep costs to a minimum and maintain overall competitive pricing for consumers, retailers often work with multiple delivery companies to provide the best mix of delivery windows and shipping rates. By coordinating deliveries between the U.S. Postal Service and national as well as regional carriers, for example, retailers can get the best mix of shipping zone rates and delivery times, experts say. In addition, merchants can work with outsourced fulfillment companies to use networks of warehouses located nearest their largest concentrations of customers, providing for the lowest delivery costs, Sailor says.
The cost of delivery services, meanwhile, keeps rising. The U.S. Postal Service raised its rates by an overall average of 1.74% effective April 17, though the average increase is limited to the Consumer Price Index as required by the federal Postal Law of 2006. The rate hikes do not affect parcels shipped via expedited Express Mail or Priority services.
The rate hikes, coming about two years since the last increases, range from a rise of 0.5% for single-piece first-class letters and cards to 3.8% for first-class parcels and 11.3% for standard mail parcels.
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The rate hikes, coming about two years since the last increases, range from a rise of 0.5% for single-piece first-class letters and cards to 3.8% for first-class parcels and 11.3% for standard mail parcels. For standard ground Parcel Post, for example,
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