Holiday Shipping

Stamps.com has released the Holiday Shipping Survival Guide for E-commerce Retailers! The FREE, downloadable guide provides online sellers with best practices and industry data to optimize their shipping and increase sales during the 2011 holiday season. Even for the most seasoned online sellers, the holiday rush during the fourth quarter can present obstacles to efficient […]

The U.S. Postal Service recently announced their 2013 mailing deadlines to ensure delivery by December 25.  If you are planning to use the USPS to send any mail or packages this Holiday season, be sure to mail by these deadlines.   USPS Holiday Mailing Facts! The USPS is expecting to deliver 15 BILLION letters and […]

Stamps.com has released the Holiday Shipping Guide for E-commerce Sellers! The FREE, downloadable PDF guide provides online sellers with best practices to optimize their shipping and increase sales during the 2013 holiday season. Even for the most seasoned online sellers, the holiday rush during November and December can present obstacles to efficient shipping. That’s why […]

Send Your Tax Return via Certified Mail with Stamps.com Mailing in your tax return? Use Certified Mail to obtain proof that your tax return was accepted by the USPS, delivered, and signed for. When you use this service, the USPS offers a mailing receipt, provides delivery information, and maintains a copy of the recipient’s signature […]

Back-to-School shopping is in full swing as the National Retail Federation is expecting parents with children in grades K-12 to spend $26.7 billion in 2013. The NRF also expects more than one-third of those sales to be online. Make sure you are ready for the second biggest sales period of the year with these tips. […]

3 Shipping Tips to Help Make this Holiday Season your Best Ever! As the holidays approach, most e-commerce businesses are getting prepared for their busiest season of the year.  Getting orders faster than you can ship them may seem like a problem most businesses would like to have, but your response can be the difference […]

If you’re not planning on submitting your tax return electronically, it’s a good idea to use USPS certified mail with proof of mailing to send your return to the IRS.  For most people, the easiest way to send a tax return is to send your return to the P.O. Boxes provided by the IRS, which […]

How can you be sure your packages will be delivered by December 25th? Easy! Just meet the shipping deadlines of the USPS. View the mailing and shipping deadlines for domestic, international, and military cards and packages below.

The U.S. Postal Service recently announced their 2011 mailing deadlines to ensure delivery by December 25.  If you are planning to use the USPS to send any mail or packages this Holiday season, be sure to mail by these deadlines. Interesting USPS Holiday Mailing Fact! The USPS is expecting to deliver 16.5 BILLION letters and packages […]

The USPS recently announced their package shipping deadlines to ensure delivery by December 25th.  If you are planning to use the USPS to send any mail or packages this Holiday season, be sure to mail by these deadlines. Holiday Mailing Deadlines within the U.S. Letters & Cards Priority Mail® Express Mail® Parcel Post® Anywhere in […]

If you are sending a card, letter or package this holiday season, make sure you pay attention to the mail deadline dates.  The USPS has released their package shipping deadlines for all holiday greetings or packages to arrive by December 25. Interesting USPS Holiday Mailing Fact! The USPS is expecting to deliver 16.6 billion letters […]

Times are hard for every business, and that includes the U.S. Postal Service. Like many other companies, USPS has had to make some tough decisions to keep offering its unparalleled services. USPS Announces Post Office Closures Throughout US In July 2009, the USPS announced it would need to close up to 677 post office locations […]

To help you prepare for the busy holiday season, here are our ten best holiday shipping tips for ecommerce merchants.  Feel free to leave your own tips in the comments section at the end of the article! Tip #1 – Ship your products as fast as you can When a customer orders any product, anticipation […]