May I ask if you have Business Shipping Accounts with either carrier?
The reason why I ask is because if you do, and you integrate them with BSS/MSS (āAmazoneseā-āAmazonishā for āBuy Shipping Servicesā/āMerchant Shipping Servicesā), and do enough volume, I believe that youāre likely to find that you can still get shipping supplies @ little or no cost from the carriers.
Yeah fedex/ups will give us supplies but its limited to an estimate based on volume. SO now that our volume for them has decreased dramatically they are getting stingy. I do not believe Amazon has such a service/offer, at least yet.
It may be required, after you integrate those accounts with BSS, for further negotiations with the account managers in order to get them to recognize that the volume is sufficient despite not being purchased directly.
If you are using Amazon.com or Stamps.com to ship UPS and still have a UPS account, UPS will still supply you with labels.
I was contacted by my Rep asking about how our account is not shipping. I basically told them I do my UPS shipping through other parties unless they want to offer me the same discounts on my account. She said she canāt do that but, they can still provide supplies.
So I gladly still order about 1-2 thermal rolls a month.
To be clear we are shipping with Amazon logistics, so its literally not going UPS or FedEx anymore. I can see why they wouldnāt want to give labels at that point.