Which Delivery Partner Is Best For E-commerce?
Shipping’s the one moment where your online store becomes real in a customer’s hands. If that part goes badly, they start shopping somewhere else. UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL, Amazon FBA, a 3PL. Everyone wants a single winner. In practice, there is no universal best. There’s only a delivery setup that fits your products, order volume,…
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How Do 3PLs Make Money? Inside Their Business Model
The truth is that most 3PLs operate on razor-thin margins. We’re talking single-digit operating margins, even for billion-dollar players. GXO, one of the largest contract logistics companies in the world, posted an operating margin of just 1.9% on $11.7 billion in revenue in 2024. DHL Supply Chain is doing better at around 6%, but that’s…
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How Black Friday Started & Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About It
Black Friday went from local headache to global shopping ritual in a few decades. People camp outside stores, websites crash, trucks stack up at ports and hubs, and everyone pretends this year they will “just buy a few things.” The funny part is that the real story behind Black Friday has almost nothing to do…
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UPS vs. USPS for Small Packages, A Guide for E-commerce Brands
If you’re shipping small packages (whether you’re running an online store or sending occasional parcels) choosing between USPS and UPS will certainly impact your bottom line as a business. Each carrier has their advantages, and knowing when to use which can save you serious money. Who are we? Speed Commerce is an end-to-end provider of outsourced…
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Q3 Check-in: What Amazon, UPS, and Walmart just signaled about the next 6–12 months
The TLDR paragraph read Amazon grew fast in Q3 on the back of AWS and ads, while doubling down on same-day delivery. UPS squeezed profits with big cost cuts despite softer volumes and a sharp drop in Amazon packages. Walmart’s comps and eCommerce stayed firm, but they’re using heavy price rollbacks to cushion shoppers from…
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The Largest 3PLs in Canada
What does “largest” mean here? Public Canada-only revenue is rare, so the main lens is footprint: square footage for ambient facilities and cubic feet for cold chain. Where a company is global with major Canadian scale, we anchor on verifiable Canada facts like flagship DCs or facility counts. The market itself is roughly USD 19.8B…
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Super Guide to Co-Packing in Logistics: Profitability, Benefits, Vs Private Label & More
What exactly is co-packing? Co-packing (or contract packaging) is when a specialist packages, labels, bundles, kits, or builds displays for your products. It can touch primary packs (filling, bottling, pouching) or secondary packs (bundles, club packs, PDQs, pallet displays). How is co-packing different from co-manufacturing? Co-manufacturing makes the product. Co-packing finishes it for shelf or…
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The (Latest) China–Trump Trade Deal: What You Need to Know & How Long The Peace Might Last
After months of tariff volleys and China’s rare-earth squeeze, President Trump and President Xi met in Busan and agreed to a one-year de-escalation. The TLDR? The White House fact sheet spells out the swap: the U.S. trims fentanyl-linked tariffs on Chinese goods by 10 percentage points, pauses some new export-control expansions and port fees, and…
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3PL Guessing Game: Walmart, Amazon, FedEx, DHL, Maersk, Which are 3PLs?
The right way to classify a brand is to look at the role it plays in logistics, not the logo on the trailer or the storefront. See our verdicts, then the sections that explain the PL ladder and why these labels have increasingly blurred. The TLDR is that all of these companies while specializing in…
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A Plain-English Guide for Importers on Demurrage, Detention & Per Diem
Demurrage, detention, and per diem are quiet fees that can wreck margins when containers linger or equipment returns late. They’re clocks that start and stop based on a few concrete events at the terminal and in your own playbook. Our guide shows exactly how the charges get triggered, and gives you practical ways to prevent…
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