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Who is EquaShip?

EquaShip is a new shipping company that is offering Mail & Parcel Centers an alternative hybrid shipping system that combines the software of EquaShip, the logistics of Blue Package Delivery with the last mile delivery to every address in the US by the United State Postal Service.

The advantage to Mail & Parcel Centers is a lower domestic ground shipping rate alternative that is trackable and insurable.  Using EquaShip will lower your domestic ground shipping costs and make it easy to delight customers who are looking to reduce their shipping costs.

Some  Advantages:

No pickup fees
No residential surcharges
No fuel surcharges
No extended area surcharges
No delivery intercept charges
No return package shipping charges
No tiers
No EquaShip carrier stores
The public is not invited to ship with EquaShip
Rates from 25% to 50% lower than other carrier published rates

EquaShip calls itself “The Fourth Carrier,” a game-changing alternative to UPS, FedEx and the US Postal Service.  The three giants are certainly among America’s strongest brands, collectively hauling some three billion parcels a year, and doing a great job of it.  Those parcels represent 10% of the GDP – and growing – given the ever-increasing popularity of internet shopping.

EquaShip is building a national delivery network by linking together Blue Package Delivery and the USPS.  Targeting the smaller shipper, EquaShip requires no contracts or volume minimums.

Blue Package is a large package consolidator that serves Amazon merchants.  Blue Package enters over one million packages a day into the Postal Service.  They need additional drop point across the country for the merchants to drop their packages for Blue Package pickup.  EquaShip wants to ship its packages through those drop points.

Here’s how it works:

You must first sign up as a drop point for Blue Package Delivery.  If Blue Package qualifies your store as a needed drop point, you will be sent an application to ship through EquaShip.

How do I Sign Up?

To learn more and apply for an account go  here

The EquaShip program for retail shipping is being offered exclusively through Associated Mail & Parcel Centers (AMPC), a trade organization that has been helping stores succeed for 30 years.  Stores do not have to be members of AMPC to participate in the program.  For more information on how AMPC supports the industry by meeting with USPS officials, carriers and vendors to put profitable programs together for its members see www.ampc.org.