The major package carriers recently released their holiday shipping deadlines for this year, 2021. Now, I’ve got them all in a quick printable that you can print and hang in your workspace – or screenshot it on your phone. If I can offer any advice this year, it is ship early! Throughout this year, we’ve …
Shipping & Packaging
If you ship products through the United States Postal Service (USPS) in your Silhouette or Cricut small business, you should know the shipping deadlines for Christmas. I’ve made it easy for you this year with a free, printable deadline chart. This printable covers the USPS deadlines only. If you ship with FedEx, UPS, or DHL …
Bad news today fellow craft business owners, last week the United States Postal Service announced a planned temporary rate increase. USPS Shipping Rate Increase Details Why the increase? The USPS cited ‘heightened demand for online shopping package volume due to the coronavirus pandemic and expected holiday ecommerce” (per usps.com) as the reason for the rate …
Here’s a fun fact that you definitely don’t know: When I was a teenager, I worked at Sears in the children’s department. This is where I learned to properly fold a shirt for retail. Since that was quite a few years ago (I won’t tell you how many!), I might be a bit rusty – …
I’ve teamed up with the United States Postal Service (USPS) today to remind craft businesses that ship packages that the USPS offers free package pickup on all regular mail delivery days. For me, I take advantage of the USPS’s free package pickup nearly every single day. It saves me both time and gas – and …
I had a Cutting for Business reader recently send me an email about whether or not she should include a printed packing list/invoice in packages she sends to customers in her craft business. So, let’s talk about it. 3 Reasons to Include a Packing Slip in Your Orders In the event the label falls off. …
You probably already know that I’m in love with my Dymo 4XL label printer. If you aren’t familiar with them, it’s a printer that prints shipping labels on sticker paper. My favorite thing? The Dymo 4XL uses thermal paper and heat to print – so it doesn’t require ink! A few years ago when I …
One of the emails that I get a lot of through Cutting for Business is: “I just shipping my first package and lost money because shipping was way more expensive than I thought it would be!” Honestly, I hate to hear this because it is completely preventable! The United States Postal Service (USPS) has a …
I’ve talked before about packaging products on the blog, but today, we are going to look at an easy way to jazz up your packages – custom printed packing tape! I talked to a handful of companies about custom printing packing tape in small batches before writing this post. I found that most companies have …