Connected Business Solutions, Inc.

Platinum Shipper™ - Can the USPS do it cheaper?

This is one of our most popular offerings. In a nutshell, Platinum Shipper helps you add the U. S. Postal Service to your shipping options. (In case you haven’t noticed, the USPS has made giant leaps in recent years toward customer service and reliability. It really is a contender.) It is designed to help you find the best, least expensive way to ship a package. It enhances and leverages existing carrier systems, shipping systems, and address databases such as:

• UPS WorldShip®
• FedEx Ship Manager
• Clippership
• MS-Outlook and others

Simply rate a package in UPS WorldShip or others as you normally do, and Platinum Shipper will display the comparable USPS rates. It will also display any surcharges. You can then click on “Process Shipment” to produce either a UPS or USPS label. There is no need to change any of the accounting or database interfaces already built for WorldShip or other systems. Platinum Shipper simply reads what the system has and assists in making the best shipping decision.

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Case Study

New York Company Saves Thousands of Dollars with Platinum Shipper

One New York company was shipping exclusively with their “free” UPS World Ship. One day they noticed that UPS was back billing them $10.00 for address corrections, $1.75 for every Residential and $2.25 for every Rural delivery that was shipped. This meant they were losing money, since they billed their customers for orders at the time of shipping. Being billed for these surcharges later in their invoices from UPS lowered their costs to their customers, making it difficult to keep their shipping department a profit center. Connected Business Solutions showed them how they could save on these costs with Platinum Shipper, a simple software program that sits right next to their UPS World Ship, giving them rate shopping with the Post Office and cleansing their addresses immediately before they printed a label. An added bonus was to offer Saturday delivery through the Post Office, which is free, to their customers at regular shipping rates. This promotion increased revenues as customers were able to order more products for weekend deliveries. Because this software was an add-on to their current system there were no major changes to their current process. With a small learning curve to use Platinum Shipper, they decided to have it installed right before their busiest time of year. The result? They saved thousands of dollars and had a successful busy season! You can potentially save thousands of dollars as well- give us a call today.