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ShipMatrix has partnered with carriers for various aspects of the operation to meet this need for our customers and other retailers

Why ShipMatrix Distribution Services?

While the Teamsters negotiating team and UPS reached an agreement on July 25, the deal needs to be ratified by rank and file. Member voting begins August 3 and concludes August 22. While we expect the deal to be ratified with great majority in favor, just in case it is not and UPS is unable to meet the new demands and Teamsters elect to strike, we will keep our contingency plan in place till end of August.

While other national parcel carriers have excess capacity, some shippers may need alternates. Given that UPS delivers 18 million parcels per day, a diversion of even a few million will require creative solutions to avoid the fiasco of July/August of 1997.

So, just like ShipMatrix helped shippers during peak of 2020 and 2021 when the demand exceeded capacity, we will be setup to support SMx customers with alternatives to keep your products moving. This is being made available only as a stop gap measure during the weeks while the labor issue is settled at UPS. It is not a competing parcel service but an emergency resource to support our shipper and carrier partners.

To support these alternatives, SMx will be fully integrated with partner carriers for visibility, analytics, rate verification and customer communications that our customers have been relying on us for over 2 decades.

Why ShipMatrix Distribution Services?

The Covid-19 pandemic has permanently altered buying behavior for millions of consumers which has created urgency among retailers to modify their supply chain operations.

The explosive growth in parcel volume, which exceeded 3 billion parcels during the peak period of 2020, has caused capacity constraints for the global parcel carriers, including the U.S. Postal Service. This growth is pushing many retailers to seek alternative methods to secure efficient, cost effective and dependable services for transportation of their products to stores and/or directly to consumers.

ShipMatrix has helped hundreds of shippers for over two decades with the visibility of their shipping operations. We assist with analytics, rate verification and customer communications on delivery status. ShipMatrix has responded to our customer's needs for distribution options due to industry capacity shortcomings.

ShipMatrix Has Partnered With

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The Key Attributes of the Service Include

Streamlined and customized transit time
designed to meet each retailer's unique
requirements for stocking merchandise in
the stores for heaviest shopping days

Facilitate online sales with shipping direct
from store for faster delivery service,
lower cost and maximizing the presence
of brick and mortar stores locally

Provide for the most convenient option
preferred by the consumer for returns and
thereby encourage more shopping online

Simplified pricing that provides greater
predictability for shipping spend and
avoids the need for verification of billing

Ensure being able to support the spike in
peak season if precluded from tendering
extra volume to the national carriers

Direct support of this service with
ShipMatrix applications that provides
complete visibility, online tracking, service
performance results, and online invoicing

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