I’m a new seller, less than a month. I do FBM for now until the 90 probation period is over. My first two shipments I thought my only real option would be Canada Post Xpresspost, but with the strike, both shipments took way too long, and their rates were higher than when I had gotten estimates in the past. I googled alternatives and checked on here but couldn’t really find a company that services my area (BC) for Canada wide service. So thought I was stuck.
Then I saw a news article about the Canada Post strike and they mentioned a company I didn’t see in my google search, which was eshipper. I checked out their website for a quote to compare and it was about the same cost, a bit less, and didn’t show any detail, so I closed it and moved on. Next day I received a phone call from the company from a sales rep (Ali). He explained how they work which is basically they have a deep discount with all of the main couriers like UPS, Fed-ex, Purolator, etc., and when I punch in the to and from info it’ll display all options across the whole board. So they get a deep discount then mark it up a bit, and it ends up being way less than if you, as a small scale seller, went direct to them.
Anyways, later that day I got 2 orders, and tried it out. For both I got UPS Saver, which is overnight shipping, for less cost than Canada Post Xpresspost (which should be two days but has been over a week for my first two shipments…). So, just wanted to share for anyone else looking in Canada. Check eShipper out. Definitely best option I’ve found so far.