{"id":4752,"date":"2024-01-19T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlysales.si\/?p=4752"},"modified":"2024-03-26T17:25:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T16:25:02","slug":"big-box-logisticni-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlysales.si\/en\/big-box-logisticni-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"A logistics hack that delivery services don't like to talk about."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today we decided to open up a taboo topic that many online retailers don't know about, and delivery services often try to keep it that way.<\/p>\n

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Big box - have you heard of this title?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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Big box is a completely legal, relatively easy and very affordable way to optimize the price of your shipments sent abroad.<\/p>\n

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So what's the problem?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The main problem is that delivery services do not earn as much from such packages as they do from customers who send each package abroad separately. All other complications then mostly arise from this.<\/p>\n

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What is \"Big box\"?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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Big box is a simple name for a \"big package\", which we use to fill it with smaller (final) packages, which in this way can be sent much cheaper to the chosen destination and we can concretely optimize our delivery costs abroad.<\/p>\n

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Who is the Big Box shipping method suitable for?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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In this way, many merchants who send a large number of packages to a selected foreign country can optimize their price, but of course a lot also depends on the existing conditions, the number of packages, the size and weight of the packages, etc. It is most suitable for merchants who ship a large number of packages that are light and small to 1 foreign country. Below we will explain more about this and show a simple calculation.<\/p>\n

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Big box<\/figcaption>\n
Why send a \"Big box\" at all?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/figure>\n

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Big box shipping became particularly popular in our country when Slovenian online retailers began to compete massively on foreign EU markets, but were price uncompetitive with domestic retailers due to extremely high delivery prices from Slovenia abroad. This price, even for the smallest packages, often amounted to 6-7 euros, or even over 10 euros, depending on the final destination and the type of packages.<\/p>\n

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How do Big boxes solve the problem of expensive shipping abroad?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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The price of local shipping (within the country) and international shipping (from one EU country to another) in many cases differs by 3-4x. So, if e.g. you pay 2-4 euros for a package you send to Slovenia, you can pay 6-12 euros for the same package you want to send to one of the EU countries.<\/p>\n

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A big box is nothing but a large package (preferably the maximum volume that your delivery service still allows), which is useful for us to put small packages in it and in this way (for the one-time cost of a large package) quickly deliver them to the selected country, where the local delivery service opens a big package (Big box) and then sends small packages for delivery.<\/p>\n

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As a result, you can apply local labels (from the country in which the final delivery will be made) to the small final packages and finally send them out at local prices. So your only additional cost is the price of one large package (shipping + packaging), which usually ranges between 10-15 euros, and you can fit around 30kg of small packages in it, if of course their volume allows it.<\/p>\n

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So to summarize:<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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  1. You pack the orders of your customers from abroad in packages that you equip with local labels (e.g. you sign a contract with DPD Poland). This of course gets you the local shipping rate.<\/li>\n
  2. Put all small daily packages that you send to Poland into a Big box, which you send as 1 international package.<\/li>\n
  3. You send the package from your address\/warehouse in Slovenia to the DPD Poland depot in Poland, where they open the large package and then deliver the small packages to the end customers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Ali se mi spla\u010da po\u0161iljati Big box?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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    The calculation is simple, but of course everyone has to calculate it themselves, as it depends on your current offer, dimensions and weights of your packages, number of daily packages, location, etc.<\/p>\n

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    Basically you need to know the following:<\/p>\n

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    1. Povpre\u010dno \u0161tevilo kon\u010dnih paketov, ki jih po\u0161ljete v izbrano dr\u017eavo<\/li>\n
    2. Va\u0161a trenutna povpre\u010dna cena za 1 paket<\/li>\n
    3. How many packages (dimensions, weight) can you fit in 1 big box if you fill it to the top (get information from your delivery service about the maximum allowed dimensions and weight of an international package)<\/li>\n
    4. Cena Big boxa v celoti (nabava embala\u017ee – velikega paketa in cena dostave le-tega)<\/li>\n
    5. Cena lokalnih paketov, ki jo lahko pridobite s strani tujih dostavnih slu\u017eb<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Based on this data, you can very easily calculate the \"breakeven point\", i.e. at what number of daily packages is it worth sending with Big box instead of directly one package at a time.<\/p>\n

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      Calculation example:<\/b><\/h5>\n

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