Tag: eBay

USPS sponsor ‘eBay Live!’

Posted by | Jun 19, 2008 | |

The U.S. Postal Service has one question for the anticipated 10,000 small business owners attending eBay Live! 2008 in Chicago: “What are you paying for shipping?”

The Postal Service is the title sponsor of eBay Live! 2008. Through a series of workshops, labs and presentations, attendees discover new strategies, share business solutions and network with other online sellers. The conference is set for June 19-21 in Chicago.

Postal Service employees are on hand to explain new pricing opportunities in domestic, international and online services, working with the theme, “What are you paying for shipping?” Online savings, volume discounts and competitive prices could bring savings as high as 11 percent for eBay shippers, according to the Postal Service. Two international power sellers will demonstrate international shipping options.

All Express Mail and Priority Mail customers can save money simply by going online to purchase postage, including customers using Click-N-Ship at usps.com. Express Mail customers will receive 3 percent off the published retail prices and Priority Mail customers will save an average 3.5 percent.

The Postal Service also is working on a payment solution that allows eBay buyers and sellers to stay on the eBay website to complete financial transactions or print Postal Service shipping labels online. Customers will no longer have to migrate to the PayPal site to conclude business, a convenient solution Anita Bizzotto, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at USPS, said will be available at the end of August.

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NetDespatch makes express firms into e-traders

Posted by | Jun 11, 2008 | |

The British technology firm NetDespatch has announced Velocity eTrader, a new service for courier and distribution companies, based on its Velocity web shipping and tracking platform.

The new Velocity eTrader website will allow shippers to book any services online, without having an account, and pay for them by credit or debit card. After entering all details, customers receive a quote based on mileage or weight from the Velocity eTrader pricing engine. Online payment is made through PayPal.

To help run an eTrader business, there is also an administration area that provides reports of both successful and failed transactions. With the new website, the company aims at capturing new business from eBay traders, cottage industries and business start-ups.

“eTrader opens up important new business opportunities for our courier and distribution customers, as more and more goods are bought and sold online and the number of local Post Offices dwindles. With payment by credit card, a formal account does not need to be opened, helping to attract a broad range of new customers, some of whom will undoubtedly eventually open a credit account,” said Becky Clark, CEO of NetDespatch.

As part of the NetDespatch Velocity “on demand” applications platform, eTrader adds to the wide range of NetDespatch web services that courier and distribution companies can provide to their customers, depots and suppliers. These include intuitive web booking, systems integration, pre-labelling, address management, mileage and weight based pricing, manifests, event tracking, management reporting, POD management, mobile data and eCommerce solutions. The services are all provided in real-time and fully integrated with other systems such as sales order processing, warehouse management and e-shopping cards.

The main courier partners of NetDespatch are TNT, Amtrak, APC Overnight, Priority Express and Expressair International.

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La Poste launches new services and cuts paper usage

Posted by | Apr 11, 2008 | |

La Poste has signed several partnerships with the supermarket chain Casino, EBay France and WWF France in the last few weeks to expand its network, enhance services and reduce its environmental impact.
Coliposte, the French parcels division of La Poste, entered into a partnership with the supermarket chain Casino to test its automatic parcel pick-up service “Cityssimo” in two supermarkets in Lyon and Paris.
Through the introduction of the Cityssimo service into the Casino supermarkets, La Poste aims at extending its network of parcel pick-up points to offer its customers the possibility to choose their preferred type of delivery of Colissimo shipments. The customers can thus pick up their parcels in their Casino store at the time most convenient for them.
In addition, La Poste and eBay in France have signed an agreement to enable customers to buy and to prepay online their express shipments saving time and ensuring traceability. Chronopost signed a similar agreement with eBay a month ago.
Meanwhile, La Poste has teamed up with the environmental organization WWF in France to promote a responsible mail policy. It has pledged to reduce considerably its CO2 emissions by 15% and to recycle 80% of its paper by 2012 as part of its overall environmental activities.

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French Post Office makes Ebay despatches simpler

Posted by | Apr 9, 2008 | |

French postal operator ‘La Poste’ has launched a new service which allows French Ebay users to sort all their parcel needs online, through Ebay itself.

With only a few clicks, users can decide on how the item should be delivered, the weight, destination and whether the item is to be insured, before paying via PayPal – the method of payment preferred on eBay.fr.

The form is then printed on a simple A4 sheet of which a part will attached to the parcel, the other stamped by the counter clerk in post office and used as proof of sending. Once the parcel is prepared, the shipper merely has to leave it with a local post office – where many fast counters dedicated to parcels have been available in France since 2006.

The brand new service is free to eBay.fr users, costs no more than normal parcel rates but saves sellers time in preparing parcels ready for despatch. The parcels can also be tracked online.

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