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This November, UPS announced its holiday returns traffic will peak on Jan. 2nd with over 1.9 million packages, a 26 percent increase from the company’s 2018 peak. This is a substantial year-over-year increase. UPS also expects 1.6 million daily returns during the week...

There were $11.6 billion worth of online global consumer transactions between Jan. - Sept. 2019, according to analyst firm, DynamicAction.  However, competitive pricing and other tactics means achieving profitability is even more challenging with estimated...

The Challenge: Processing and Accounting for Large Volumes of Complex Orders In 2008, Game Room Guys began its first ecommerce sales efforts. This catalyzed a new level of growth both for the company’s brick and mortar business and via eBay and Amazon marketplaces....

ShipRush is now offering shippers a midmarket, web version of a tool it developed that gives merchants a real-time view of parcel rates across multiple carriers, including UPS, FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service, among others. Multichannel Merchant, January 31, 2017...

As the 2018 holiday season approaches, merchants prepare for the traditional spike in sales and the inevitable surge in online returns. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, the 2017 holiday season saw 28 percent of the gifts people purchased...