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In the past the USPS encouraged the creation of parcel aggregators that picked packages up from shippers, sorted them and dropped the packages off deep in the USPS network, with by far the best pricing when the aggregators dropped off packages at the local post office and let the

Today Bloomberg has a story I've been dying to read for ages: How, exactly, did Birkenstock, an orthopedic shoe company long controlled by a feuding German family, become such a footwear industry behemoth? (Gift link, free to read!) bloomberg.com/features/2024-…

Wohoooo Talia Goldberg 🎉

Amazon building cross border e-commerce solution to fulfill directly from China, skipping their US warehousing and fulfillment network.

We’re excited to introduce a new feature in our Web App that helps expedite your shipping – Shippo tags! Tags are custom labels you can create and assign to your orders, allowing you to easily manage orders and perform special fulfillment workflows. bit.ly/4cglP6t

Super excited for my friend Sam O'Keefe on this company milestone! Congrats 🎉

Today on the podcast: Laura Behrens Wu, co-founder of Shippo. If you haven't heard of Shippo, you've probably gotten a package powered by their software. Shippo is a billion dollar company that operates an invisible layer of infrastructure critical to helping SMBs operate online.

Gigi Hadid for Vetements SS25

FedEx delivers pandas?! 🐼

If you are a shipping insurance startup that’s affected by these changes and you have a passionate small team of experts, then hit me up. We’re doing interesting work on shipping insurance on the merchant facing side (as opposed to consumer facing)

Really cool to see how easy it’ll be to launch new apps and try things as an entrepreneur with AI tools

Related to the 321 changes, USPS is suspending all parcels from China and Hong Kong Post temporarily. I hope this is short term and resolved quickly.

“Scammers advertise counterfeit USPS postage on Chinese social media, charging as little as 60 cents to deliver packages in America.” Those are then used to deliver Temu packages… restofworld.org/2025/temu-sell…

The White House just updated the 321 Executive Order, now items sent through International Postal Mail get a tariff of 90% or $75 per item. The transportation company chooses if it's 90% or $75, but it has to be the same for all their shipments. This is just for Postal Mail.

DHL and FedEx are suspending shipments valued above $800 coming into the United States. It used to be anything > $2,500 required formal clearance, it appear now > $800 requires formal clearance. Shippers are getting the emails.

Habemus postmaster general npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-…

USPS filed today to raise prices by 6.3 percent for Priority Mail, 7.1 percent for Ground Advantage and 7.6 percent for Parcel Select. Effective July 13.