{"id":43835,"date":"2024-06-24T15:53:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T19:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=43835"},"modified":"2024-06-24T15:53:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T19:53:25","slug":"pirate-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/24\/pirate-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2024\/06\/20\/pirate-ship-reduces-shipping-cost-and-complexity\/\">Adam Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2024\/06\/20\/pirate-ship-reduces-shipping-cost-and-complexity\/\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pirateship.com\/\">Pirate Ship<\/a> is a shipping platform with an elegant interface that allows users to access discounted shipping rates from USPS and UPS with no subscription fee. I&rsquo;ve used it a handful of times for mailing packages, and it has been brilliant.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>And, oh, what a lovely interface!<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Pirate Ship has negotiated corporate-level discounted shipping rates of up to 89% off retail and passes most of those savings on to customers. For shipping something heavy, Glenn has seen international shipping prices that run about $200 on UPS&rsquo;s site, while Pirate Ship&rsquo;s rate was about $60.<\/p><p>That slight arbitrage allows Pirate Ship to avoid the monthly subscriptions that make no sense for all but high-volume shippers&mdash;Stamps.com charges $19.99 per month plus postage, for example.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.pirateship.com\/\">Pirate Ship&rsquo;s support pages<\/a> are also outstanding.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Engst: Pirate Ship is a shipping platform with an elegant interface that allows users to access discounted shipping rates from USPS and UPS with no subscription fee. I&rsquo;ve used it a handful of times for mailing packages, and it has been brilliant.[&#8230;]And, oh, what a lovely interface![&#8230;]Pirate Ship has negotiated corporate-level discounted shipping rates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-06-24T19:53:29Z","apple_news_api_id":"6e6b83ee-e81e-4bab-a195-4f9d78b55a45","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-06-24T19:53:29Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AbmuD7ugeS6uhlU-deLVaRQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,2614,1756,96],"class_list":["post-43835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-shipping","tag-united-states-postal-service","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43836,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43835\/revisions\/43836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}