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Are you Getting the Best Shipping Discounts?

The best way for a small business to get a good discount on shipping rates is to ship in volume with one carrier. But “volume” can mean different things to different courier companies, and you may or may not qualify for those rates, even though you’re technically a “small business”.

Small business discounts aren’t necessarily as great as you’d think
It doesn’t even really matter what shipping company you go to, if you look into their small business deals, they’re all around the same. They offer an incentive to sign-up, say, up to 30% off all shipments for the first six months. But when that time’s up, you’ll only save around 15% on shipping, and that’s only you qualify (for example, if you meet a monthly average in shipping charges, usually around $1,300/month). They all advertise the fact that more you ship, the more you save – so if you only ship a few packages a week, you’ll only get the minimum discount… if that. The average discount is only around 5%, which isn’t a whole lot, in the grand scheme of things.

Small business or SMALL business
Even the definition of small business can vary, depending on your country, or even state or province.  Most of the time, a business size is based on the number of employees, but even those numbers include a fairly large range –  anything from fewer than 15 to as many as 250. It’s usually safe to assume that a company with 250 employees has more customers than a company with a staff of 10. So if shipping discounts are based on volume, it would make sense that company with 250 employees would ship more, therefore would qualify for a better volume discount.

But doesn’t a 10-person operation with less cash flow need a discount just as much – or even more so – as a company employing 250 people? We thinks so, too.

Volume discounts of a large corporation for the little guys
When you ship as many packages as we do, you tend to qualify for some pretty significant volume discounts. That’s how netParcel is able to offer discounts of up to 70% to every one of our customers, regardless of whether you’re an individual sending a birthday present to your Grandma across the country, or a small business shipping 10 parcels a day to customers around the world. We have no minimums you need to meet each moth, no hoops to jump through in order to take advantage of our fantastic discounts with some of the world’s most reliable courier companies.

Sign up with netParcel.com and start shipping today
It’s so easy to get started taking advantage of the discounts netParcel offers. Follow these simple steps, and you’ll start saving on your very next shipment! First, sign up for an account. Then enter the shipping information – address of origin and delivery address. Then you’ll see a list of rates from our partner companies. Choose the one that’s best for you, print your label and any necessary customs papers, and you’re done!