Ecommerce platforms cancel flights and slash capacity – market is 'a mess'
As anticipated, ecommerce platforms have begun cancelling flights and cutting back on capacity, while Chinese ...
E-commerce through international mail is headed for a collision with a serious obstacle in the new year.
Large numbers of parcels headed for the US are likely to be rejected as, from 1 January, full and correct advance data sets of all incoming packages through the mail will be mandatory.
The problem is the implementation of the next phase of the Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention (STOP) Act that aims to crack down on illicit opioids entering the US through the mail.
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