Shipping gets Real
Following on the heels of pickers and pawn brokers, A&E’s Shipping Wars premieres on Tuesday, January 10, 10/9C. This real-life series follows six independent shippers who have discovered that fortunes can be made transporting items that traditional carriers won’t touch. Dive into the cutthroat world of these heavy-duty movers as they battle for the chance to transport the unshippable.
Be sure to follow these shippers off-screen on Twitter!
Customer #1
Posted by admin in Case Studies, Mac Shipping on December 14, 2011
During the holiday shipping season we often hear from NRGship customers who are being featured on television or on lists for must-have products. So I started to think about a blog posting listing our rock-star customers and their products but decided to highlight our first customer, Cliff Stoll from Acme Klein Bottles. Cliff is a TED-talker and may be best known as the guy who brought down a KGB hacker in the 80′s. He’s been shipping Klein Bottles with NRGship since 2004 and still uses one of the first versions:
The UPS shipper just keeps right on workin’ … nary a hiccup. Solid software that has worked everyday since 2004. Across Filemaker upgrades, through UPS revisions, across operating system changes. WELL DONE!
During the holidays, I may ship 30 to 50 packages in a day. NRGSoft lets me do this through a simple Filemaker interface … transparently printing out a UPS shipping label from my customer’s name & address. Reliable, invisible, problem free. This is the way software should behave!
For seven plus years, your software has allowed me to keep a lean, customized back-office database, a system that has made thousands of happy mathematicians.
While we wish all of our customers could be featured in the media during the holidays, they are all rock-stars in their own way.
UPS Releases 2012 Rate Updates
Effective January 2, 2012, the following UPS rate increases will apply:
- UPS Ground services will increase a net 4.9% through a combination of a 5.9% increase in rates and a 1 percentage point reduction in the UPS Ground fuel surcharge.
- UPS Air and International services will increase a net 4.9% through a combination of a 6.9% increase in rates and a 2 percentage point reduction in the UPS Air and International services fuel surcharge. Rates for UPS Next Day Air® remain up to 4% lower than our largest U.S. private competitor for similar services.
- UPS Next Day Air® Freight and UPS 2nd Day Air® Freight rates for shipments within and between the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico will increase 5.9%. UPS 3 Day Freight® rates will remain unchanged.
NRGship for UPS – Now available on the Mac App Store
Posted by admin in General, Press Releases on November 17, 2011
Take note of 2011 holiday shipping deadlines
Take note of the domestic ship-by dates for UPS, FedEx and USPS for delivery by Saturday, December 24.
December 15-22–UPS Ground®* (varies by destination)
December 20–UPS 3 Day Select®*
December 22–UPS 2nd Day Air®* (if labeled for Saturday delivery)
December 23–UPS Next Day Air®* (if labeled for Saturday delivery)
December 16–FedEx Ground®
December 19–FedEx Home Delivery®
December 21–FedEx 2Day®
December 22–FedEx Standard Overnight®
December 15–Parcel Post
December 20–First Class Mail
December 21–Priority Mail
December 22–Express Mail
