by RJ Shara | Sep 15, 2021 | Startups
Previously this year, a startup called Olive introduced its new shopping website and app with the goal of making e-commerce more efficient, hassle-free, and sustainable by using a way for consumers to aggregate their orders from throughout retailers into single deliveries that show up in multiple-use packaging, not cardboard. If products need to be returned, those […] Otherwise, Olive will return to select them up. Olive creator Nate Faust states he was inspired to construct the business after recognizing how little interest there was from larger e-commerce players in addressing some of the inconveniences and inefficiencies in the market. Olive addresses the return concern by enabling customers to simply put their unwanted products back in Olive’s product packaging then leave them on their doorstep or with the structure’s doorman for return. Olive today partners with merchants who ship bundles to its own west coast and east coast warehouses, where they repackage them into the reusable containers to provide to consumers. 
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by RJ Shara | Apr 24, 2020 | Startups
If we continue to view the USPS as merely a balance sheet and optimize for profitability in a vacuum, we ultimately stand to lose even more than we get. As CEO of Shippo, an e-commerce technology platform that helps businesses enhance their shipping, I have a special vantage point into the USPS and its effect on e-commerce. And while my viewpoint on the value of the USPS is not based on my company’s business relationship with the Postal Service, I desire to be upfront about the truth that Shippo creates part of its revenue from the purchase of shipping labels through our platform from the USPS along with numerous other providers. We must look at how numerous thousands of small companies have actually been able to get started thanks to the USPS, how hundreds of billions of dollars of commerce is made possible by the USPS yearly and how numerous millions of customers, who otherwise might not have access to products, have been served by the USPS. For this process, Amazon delivers deliveries to USPS circulation centers in bulk, which considerably cuts expenses and logistical challenges for the USPS. Overall, I would anticipate to see the level of entrepreneurship in e-commerce slow in the United States without the USPS or with a private variation of the USPS that runs with a profit-first mindset….
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