eBay, SingPost & USPS Ally
eBay Singapore, the Singapore Post and the US Postal Service have gotten together to boost Singapore-US trade.
eBay has launched a new B2B ePAC shipping service that’s supposed to improve the 24/7 tracking and delivery of lightweight goods. It has two similar services: ePacket, set up in September 2010, to assist cross-border shipping between China Post and the USPS and e-Express, which has been serving Hong Kong Post and the USPS since last April.
Like its mates, ePAC offers an online shipping tool from eBay that integrates the back-end systems of all three parties.
It’s supposed to cut the shipping time between Singapore and the states from two-three weeks to six-eight days. Merchants can use it to take orders and print shipping labels using their eBay accounts.
ePAC charges a fixed rate of S$2.20 (US$1.70) per shipment, not exceeding two kilograms. The first 20 grams costs S$1.10 (US 85 cents), and every 10 grams thereafter costs S$0.35 (US 27 cents). It’s supposed to let more sellers offer free shipping.
eBay says ePacket now handles 90,000 packages a day from mainland China to the US.
Japan is evidently going to be next.
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