Holiday Shipping 101
Put Hassle-free Shipping on Your List This Year

With the end of the year and the holidays upon us, the last thing anyone wants to deal with are the typical shipping hassles and inconveniences that accompany a heavy shipping season. The following information and tips will help you give yourself the gift of smooth shipping this year.

Express and Ground
By shipping with Unishippers and UPS, you are already way ahead of the game when it comes to receiving the best service and avoiding headaches during this busy shipping season. By taking advantage of Unishippers’ Express Manager tool and UPS’s technology and shipping options, you’ll discover that holiday shipping has never been easier.

Express Manager
Unishippers' online shipping tool for express and ground is a powerful, one-stop shipping solution that saves money and eliminates hassles. Be sure to take advantage of the following Express Manager features to make your holiday shipping a little merrier and brighter:

• Easy label tracking and creation. Express Manager keeps track of all the labels you prepare on the site, making the entry of long tracking numbers unnecessary. The simple label creation tool will let you quickly and effortlessly generate labels for all those holiday packages with much greater speed and accuracy than hand-written labels.
• A sophisticated mailing list feature. Use this feature for simple delivery arrangement of same-sized packages to multiple customers.
• Immediate cost estimates to minimize surprises. Before you ship, Express Manager will present you with cost estimates so that you can be sure you are getting the best price and service level to fit your needs.

UPS
UPS has earned a well-deserved reputation as the industry leader in technology and shipping options. The following exclusive UPS features will simplify your shipping and let you focus on what’s really important this holiday season.

• UPS Packaging Advisor. Nobody wants to spend more than they need to on packaging, but neither do they want to risk damage by not using enough or the right type of packaging. UPS’s new Packaging Advisor tool takes the guesswork out of packing by asking you a few simple questions about your package and then providing customized recommendations about the exterior carton, interior cushioning, item placement inside the package, closure and label placement. It’s powerful, intuitive and free to all Unishippers and UPS customers.
• Early a.m. delivery. UPS delivers by 8:30 a.m. to more ZIP Codes than anyone, and UPS is the only carrier to offer an early Saturday morning delivery option. UPS has recently added more than 3,000 ZIP codes to its early morning delivery network, helping to get those holiday packages get to their destination quickly and by the guaranteed time.

Regardless of your shipping needs this holiday season, Unishippers and UPS have the solutions to make it a worry-free and enjoyable experience.

A little extra time and effort is all it takes to ensure that your end-of-year shipping is as worry-free as possible. Unishippers would like to wish all of its customers safe and happy holidays and a prosperous new year.

Customer Chronicles
Shipping with Unishippers is Picture-Perfect for CCL Imaging

CCL (cclphotoimaging.com) is one of the top full service professional photo labs in the country. They have served the needs of professional photographers for over 30 years, providing customized service and quick turnaround times.

CCL and its highly trained staff have earned their sterling reputation over the years by providing some of the best color work in the lab industry at fair prices. With a specialized and demanding clientele, CCL needs a shipping partner that can dependably meet their shipping needs day after day. According to company co-owner David Swaw, Unishippers has spent the past year proving they are up to the task.

"We had heard some good things about Unishippers, and felt like they would be a good fit for our needs," reveals David. "Our early experience with them showed us that they provide better customer service and more personal attention than other shipping companies."

When asked what has kept CCL shipping with Unishippers, David has the following to say: "Besides the excellent service, the competitive pricing and our volume discount from our UPS shipping are much better than the rates we were getting previously."

With much of their business going to repeat customers, fast and dependable express shipping is crucial to CCL’s success. "We have mostly repeat business from independent photographers, so we are shipping to the same loyal customers week after week," shares David. "We couldn’t do it without a reliable shipping partner like Unishippers."

Outstanding support and customer service complete the picture and make shipping a breeze for CCL. "Our Unishippers rep has made the impression that they are all about service," David enthuses. "Unishippers provides the personal attention that few other companies can even dream of."

Did U Know?
Stay Connected with Unishippers

Unishippers is constantly looking for new and better ways to keep our customers informed and up-to-date. Accordingly we are pleased to announce Unishippers’ presence on two of the most popular social networking sites in the world, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Facebook
Unishippers’ Facebook page is located at www.facebook.com/unishippers. This corporate page is constantly updated with shipping tips, product and service updates, holiday shipping schedules and tips, carrier updates, Unishippers announcements, customer testimonials, Express Manager and Freight Manager news, and fun videos. Coming soon to this constantly expanding page will be discussion and survey features. Become a fan of Unishippers today.

LinkedIn
Unishippers’ LinkedIn company profile can be found at www.linkedin.com/companies/unishippers. Here you can view profiles of Unishippers employees, and learn more about the company and its key statistics. Visit us on LinkedIn to get more information on the "who’s" and the "what’s" behind your trusted shipping advisor.

Saving You Time, Trouble and Money
2009 Holiday Shipping Schedules

As the holidays approach, we want to help you avoid any unnecessary shipping delays and direct you to the 2009/10 holiday shipping schedule for our carrier partners. You will find them on the Unishippers website. Click here for the UPS® schedule. Please take special note of UPS guarantee modifications.

UPS Daily Stop Customers, please take special note. If you are a customer that normally has a UPS Daily Stop, on December 24 and 31 your pickup will need to be prearranged by contacting UPS On-Call Pickup service (1-800-PICK-UPS). Daily Stops will not happen automatically. Please make sure you have made these arrangements by December 23 or 30 respectively. Please also note that UPS will only pick up air and international shipments on those days, not ground. Unishippers customers that already have a daily stop arranged with UPS will not be charged a pickup fee for December 24 or 31.

Depending on your situation and needs, it may make sense to use one of UPS’s 60,000+ drop off locations. To find a drop off location in your area click here.

Please contact your local Unishippers office at 866.574.4774 if you have any questions. We value your business and wish you the happiest of holidays.

Keep Track of Your Shipments with Popular Search Engines

Tracking your UPS shipments is now quicker and easier than ever before. Search engines Bing and Google both now have the ability to track packages directly in their browser windows—all you need is your shipments’ tracking number.

To quickly track your shipment from anywhere with an internet connection, simply pull up Google or Bing’s home page on your computer or mobile device. In the search box, enter your UPS shipment’s tracking number exactly as it appears. The search engine will then give you a link that will take you directly to a UPS tracking page, revealing the shipment’s status, current location and expected arrival time. That’s it! Staying up-to-date on your shipping status has never been easier or faster.