The higher costs for tapping into the Postal Service’s vast network is bad news for consolidators unless they can find local delivery companies or contract workers to do the last mile delivery at the prices they had with the Postal Service, said Satish Jindel, a shipping and logistics and president of ShipMatrix, which produces shipping software.
U.S. Postal Service's squeeze on shipping consolidators could raise consumer costs
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U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday that it is ending discounts that shipping consolidators such as UPS and DHL use to get packages to the nation's doorsteps, in a move meant to help the Postal Service slow losses but that could see the higher costs passed on to consumers.
U.S. Postal Service ending discounts for shipping consolidators that tap into its delivery network
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