How to handle crazy high shipping costs for small business
Postage fees like $50 for small domestic packages or international shipping rates eat up most of the profit margin. At the same time, fulfillment partners require minimums and monthly fees that do not fit low sales volumes, making it difficult to stay profitable.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1keep shipping international and absorb the cost
- 2raise prices for that country
- 3set a higher free-shipping threshold
- 4stop selling in that country
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“how do you work around nz's crazy shipping costs? I've been on nz post and it costs around $50 to ship even the smallest packages 😥”source ↗
“international postage eats most of the margin on those, and a fulfilment partner in that country wants minimums and a monthly fee that does not fit the volume.”source ↗
Where this came up
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