How to Reduce Shipping Costs from Canada without Compromising Delivery Times?

How to Reduce Shipping Costs from Canada without Compromising Delivery Times?

If you are shipping from Canada, the single most effective way to reduce shipping costs would be to use Secureship – a Canadian-based shipping broker that can save you up to 50% on your shipping with noted and reliable carriers. And as they provide you a range of shipping services, you won’t compromise the shipment’s delivery times.

Beyond that there are a few other smaller yet significant ways of lowering costs:

• Avoid the Christmas season
• Use a smaller box
• Bypass residential deliveries

This blog will elaborate on the points above and offer a few more cost-saving measures.

Table of Contents

• How Secureship Reduces Shipping Costs
• Other Cost Saving Measures
• More Cost Reduction Tips
• Conclusion

How Secureship Reduces Shipping Costs

Since November 2007, Secureship has helped tens of thousands of customers across Canada save money and time directly and indirectly with their shipping.

Direct savings of up to half of your shipping costs come as a result of our group buying power with carriers such as Purolator, UPS, and FedEx, each of whom provide worldwide deliveries. This, in combination with Secureship’s price comparison tools, allow you to find the best price for your budget that matches the parcel’s required delivery time.

Secureship’s easy-to-use platform with its services, tools, and technology also provides you indirect savings. They substantially reduce the time you or your business spend organising shipping. And once the parcel is en route, our clients have experienced 85% fewer issues with their shipments, which means fewer headaches and more time available to grow your business.

Other Cost Saving Measures

Peak season

The peak shipping season of the year starts in early November and lasts until early January. Inevitably, costs rise and deliveries take longer. So, avoiding shipping during this time frame will reduce your costs; however, if that is not possible, then it is strongly recommended to ship sooner in the event of delays due to increased volumes or inclement weather conditions.

Box size

While heavier loads understandably command higher shipping fees, in the curious world of shipping, it is possible that a larger parcel could cost more than an equally-weighted smaller one. That’s because of dimensional weight, a calculation carriers make when assessing shipping charges.

Without going into the calculations, see Secureship for details, think about shipping 1 kg of feathers compared to shipping 1 kg of gold, the parcel of feathers would be more expensive because of its much larger volume.

Bypass residential deliveries

Another tip to reduce shipping charges is to bypass residential delivery and address the parcel to the recipient’s place of work. Alternatively, you could have the recipient pickup the parcel at the carrier’s local office.

More Cost Reduction Tips

There are several other measures that you can take to limit your shipping costs like reusing packing materials, preventing delayed parcels, and ensuring regulatory compliance. All of these strategies save time, which means lower costs.

Packing materials like boxes, packing peanuts, and bubble wrap are often reusable. But be aware that even one voyage weakens a box’s strength. So, when shipping very valuable or breakables, utilise a new, unused box.

Delayed deliveries creates more work for you and negatively affects customer satisfaction. Some tips to help with this include:

• Ensure the recipient’s address is written correctly and completely
• Avoid addresses to P.O. boxes; carriers are not allowed to deliver to them
• Complete all necessary paperwork for international shipments – commercial invoice, export declaration form B13a, etc. – as missing information may cause parcel returns

Foreign customs will also inspect the goods to ensure their laws are being obeyed. So if prohibited goods are in the parcel, the shipment may be returned to you and you may be fined.

Restricted goods may have quantity limits and/or require documentation such as a health or safety certificate. Again, breaking rules may cause the shipment a delayed entry to the country or simply be destroyed.

Conclusion

Using Secureship as your shipping broker is the best way of reducing your shipping costs from Canada without compromising delivery times. Secureship’s online tools and technology allow you to choose from a variety of carriers and delivery options that will suit your budget. And being easy to use means you spend less time shipping and more time doing what’s most important to you.

And other ways of reducing costs include: ship before or after the Christmas peak season; package your goods into a smaller box; avoid residential deliveries. As well, to prevent shipping delays, which quietly consumes your time and profit, it is important to complete all necessary paperwork for an international destination. And be sure that your parcel does not contain prohibited goods as that too creates issues with customs, and costs you time and money.