Discount Shipping

[LobsterOfJustice]

Those of you who ship corals, how are you purchasing your labels? I have found that purchasing directly though UPS or FedEx is too expensive, so I have been using ShipStation. Overall I'm happy with it, but the labels are still typically $50 - $80 for overnight packages around 10lbs, so if there's a cheaper option out there I'd love to find it.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Those of you who ship corals, how are you purchasing your labels? I have found that purchasing directly though UPS or FedEx is too expensive, so I have been using ShipStation. Overall I'm happy with it, but the labels are still typically $50 - $80 for overnight packages around 10lbs, so if there's a cheaper option out there I'd love to find it.

pirateship.com

 

[PasoFish89]

PIrate ship, goshippo and shipstation are all roughly the same in my experience. I did recently discover that shopify has much cheaper fedex rates, like $40 for overnight from east coast to west coast in a 12x12x10 8LB box. That same package runs me about 70-80 with fedex or UPS on the other websites.

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

To get the Shopify rate you need to have a formal business & make the sale through their platform, right?

 

[Dr. D]

I’m a coral buyer, not seller, but for unrelated eBay etc selling I’ve often been amazed by the savings from pirateship.com. Even my local UPS Store has remarked on the savings.

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

Once my free month of ship station was up, I started using pirate ship since the rates seem to be the same, without the monthly membership fee. Still, it costs me $75-100 for a box of 6-10 corals to go coast to coast overnight. That’s still way too much.

 

[Dr. D]

Yikes. I admit I don’t ship overnight, so can’t help there.

 

[PasoFish89]

To get the Shopify rate you need to have a formal business & make the sale through their platform, right?

I don't know how formal it needs to be, but yeah you do need an account. Fedex must have some sort of deal with them to get such a good rate relative to goshippo etc..