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  • Watch: How Gnarly Nutrition Scaled With iDrive’s Proactive Shipping & Fulfillment Solutions
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    Watch: How Gnarly Nutrition Scaled With iDrive’s Proactive Shipping & Fulfillment Solutions

    Read the full transcript of our chat with iDrive customer Gnarly Nutrition.

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  • WMS and TMS: Helping or Holding Back Your Business?
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    WMS and TMS: Helping or Holding Back Your Business?

    Both warehouse management systems (WMS) and transportation management systems (TMS) are critical to a growing an e-commerce business, but connecting separate technologies and maintaining that connection can be difficult. Enter ShipCaddie.

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  • Shipping Autonomy and Stability: The Key to Healthy Logistics
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    Shipping Autonomy and Stability: The Key to Healthy Logistics

    On a fundamental level, humans have tiered needs that have to be met before they can pursue creative or self-actualizing tasks. This basic framework is outlined in the ever-popular Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

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  • Diving Into General Rate Increases (GRI): What They Are and What They Really Mean
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    Diving Into General Rate Increases (GRI): What They Are and What They Really Mean

    It’s that time of year when shippers are beginning to see the effects of General Rate Increases (GRI). This year, both FedEx and UPS are raising their rates by 5.9%, both of which increases are now in force.

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  • Shop Early, Ship Early: Encouraging Early Holiday Shopping
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    Shop Early, Ship Early: Encouraging Early Holiday Shopping

    On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me—nothing, because it wasn’t delivered on time.

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  • Understanding Fuel Surcharges in the Small Parcel Market: A Strategic Perspective
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    Understanding Fuel Surcharges in the Small Parcel Market: A Strategic Perspective

    Fuel surcharges have become an integral part of the small parcel logistics landscape, a cost factor that's both ubiquitous and often misunderstood.

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  • Holiday Shipping Deadlines: When Is It Too Late to Ship for the Holidays?
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    Holiday Shipping Deadlines: When Is It Too Late to Ship for the Holidays?

    We are heading into the busiest time of the quarter with the holidays quickly approaching. To help you prepare for 2020's wave (more like tsunami) of holiday shipments, and to ensure that your shipments arrive on time.

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  • Navigating the Future: What Postal Aggregator Changes Mean for Shippers and Consumers
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    Navigating the Future: What Postal Aggregator Changes Mean for Shippers and Consumers

    As Pitney Bowes exits the market and USPS makes strategic shifts, what lies ahead for the small parcel shipping industry?

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