Shipping tips for small business
These shipping tips for small business are the boring ones that prevent expensive surprises. Use them as a checklist, not a manifesto.
Packaging
- Standardize mailers and boxes. Creativity belongs on the product, not the carton SKU.
- Cover old barcodes.
- If it can puncture a mailer, it needs a box.
Postage
- Compare shipping rates on new SKUs.
- Confirm packed weight — helper: package weight calculator.
- Watch DIM on gift boxes: how dimensional weight works.
Operations
- Set a drop-off cutoff so “shipped” means scanned soon.
- Keep reprints in the dashboard instead of recreating the shipment.
- Read prohibited items before you accept a weird custom order.
Longer process: how to ship products for small business. Positioning: small business shipping.
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