Fulfillment: Five Simple Approaches to Parcel Cost Savings

2. Service or Transit Time Selection: If you offer your customers more than one transit time option or give transit time autonomy to your fulfillment team, look here for savings. Be aware of the standard ground transit days that carriers publish on their Web sites. Only pay the expedited delivery premium if the expedited service actually is faster than ground service. For example, when shipping from New Jersey, UPS Three-day Select makes sense only if the shipment is traveling farther west than Nebraska. Sound obvious? Look at your shipment history; you’ll be surprised.