Have you ever had to endure the long days, maybe even weeks, of delay whenever using an international shipping service? Have you dreaded waiting for customs clearance and the added delay for products when they reach the distribution centers?
Well, UPS recently announced a service that will significantly diminish those long and painful waits. Now both UPS Trade Direct Air and UPS Ocean services have origin labeling capability.
What this means is that importers, as well as manufacturers, will be able to skip the distribution center step of international shipping. With the use of this new service, all the importer or manufacturer has to do is add the last destination label to each package, sit back, and watch the increased speed of your delivery.
Now, this is where a few of you might moan and ask: Do I really have to do it for every single package?
And the answer is rather simple: Would you rather spend thirty seconds slapping on an origin label, or stress out and scratch a hole in your head during two days of waiting and wondering if the distribution center is going to mess up your order?
“Origin labeling provides greater flexibility to both importers and exporters,” Keith Andrey, Global Freight Forwarding vice president of Air and Ocean Products, said in a press release. “Labeling at origin reduces transit time by roughly one day and allows customers to use in-transit goods as a ‘floating warehouse’ during transoceanic voyages.”
This UPS Trade Direct solution is yet another innovation of UPS’s international shipping capabilities that can provide a boost to customers and companies, especially those focused on the ever-expanding e-commerce spectrum.
“Shifting customs regulations around the world make international e-commerce challenging,” Cindy Miller, president of UPS Global Freight Forwarding, said. “This investment in our technology will help keep shippers fully compliant with destination rules and regulations.”
Looking into the UPS Trade Direct service is a must for shippers searching for reliable and fast delivery options when sending or receiving cargos from overseas. The process used by UPS is relatively simple and can cut up to a day in delivery time.
Let’s suppose you are the owner of an e-commerce company that sells shirts based in Spain, and you received a boatload of orders from the US. However, each order was placed from different cities or even states. The usual process would be sending individual packages and having them sorted out by customs one at a time. What the Trade Direct service does is speed that process up to another notch.
What they do is combine your freight in individual packages. With this simple step, all of your products can clear customs as a single entry, saving tons of time in comparison to how long it would take for each package to pass through customs individually. It seems almost unfair how easy they made the painfully long importation/exportation process look.
Next, comes the time-saving service we talked about at the beginning of this article.
After clearing customs all at once, each package that has received origin label can bypass the distribution centers and be cleared for delivery.
Faster than usual, this service is also reliable with state of the art tracking, as UPS Global View offers all the features you need to track your package.
The origin labeling service is initially available to all customers in select Asia to US trade lanes, but UPS will further expand the service according to market demand very soon,
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