According to trendspotter Springwise, the Life Box can be made to virtually any dimension and used by consumers and companies alike to package or→

Financial Padding consists of crumpled paper $100 dollar bill look-alikes that are a fun replacement for standard packing peanuts. Your recipient will be surprised,→

Fast Company: The fact that one of the fastest growing Russian online shopping sites is headquartered in Skokie, Illinois, probably says more about the→

Is the Postal Service too pricey to send your porta-potties to Peoria? Fex Ex won’t fly your fluoride to Farmersburg? That means its time→

Do you wish that your fulfillment and shipping department looked more like Amazon’s? If you’re like most of us, this is what it looks→

If you haven’t noticed, gas prices are pretty high, and since my family lives about 60 miles from most retail stores we do most→

Long after Webvan.com’s legendary flameout in 2001, the online grocer’s biggest problem never left Mick Mountz’s mind. As employee No. 400 at the dot-com,→

The Economist: Overhauling an industry of which you know little is not easy, but neither is it impossible. In 1956 Malcolm McLean, a trucker→

In 1990, former English teacher, Max Hardberger, started his own marine consultancy business in Louisiana. He was periodically retained by shipowners to extract their→

NPR: The elite athletes who travel to London for this summer’s Olympic Games will include petite gymnasts, huge wrestlers — and elite horses, which→

Entrepreneur: [Luke Knowles] created Free Shipping Day in less than two weeks in 2008. Sales totaled $942 million last year, surpassing Black Friday, according→

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The days of consumers stocking up on large quantities of food regularly and buying clothes seasons in advance seem to be long gone, so→

Amazon.com is trying to take the guilt out of online shipping with its patent for “Environmentally conscious electronic transactions” reports Fast Company. The patent,→

According to WalletPop, the UPS Store has launched a new product, which it calls “luggage boxes,” marketed as a product to enable customers to→

photo credit: JOE M500 Many business owners ship products by using the services of FedEx or UPS so all of you know by now→

If your company isn’t quite big enough to receive the best deals from companies like UPS or the USPS, a third party provider of→

Fast Company reports about an invention that might eliminate almost all of the wasted space in a cardboard box. How brilliant is this? Designer→

United Shipping Solutions is a third party provider of transportation services. They are one of very few companies with a contract to resell both→

What would an eBay for shipping look like? Could you make shipping cheaper by taking advantage of the empty space in the backs of→