My friend Jesse Genet, founder of Lumi, created this useful and fun video series on how to effectively ship things.
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9:38 am Thu
Mar 30, 2017
Entertaining video series on how to ship things
Amazon reinstates FedEx ground delivery for Prime after suspending it last month
Amazon has reinstated FedEx as a ground delivery carrier for Prime members’ shipments. The online retailer said today the shipper consistently met its delivery requirements, after suspending it last month.
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Bicycles shipped in fake flatscreen TV boxes suffer less shipping damage
In 2015, Amsterdam-based e-bike company VanMoof started shipping to the United States but found that a disproportionate number of them were damaged during shipping. So they started putting the bikes in fake flatscreen TV boxes. From VanMoof: That small tweak had an outsized impact. Overnight our shipping damages dropped by 70-80%. We sell 80% of […]
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Global shipping companies comply with anti-air-pollution rules by dumping pollution into the sea, instead
As of Jan 1, a new International Maritime Organisation standard will seriously restrict the kind of air pollution that shipping vessels can emit; in response, the industry has invested more than $12b in "open-loop scrubbers," which capture the sulphur from heavy fuel oil exhaust and reroute it, along with CO2, into waste water that is […]
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Lemonade is breaking the mold for home and renters insurance
Whether you own or rent your place, insurance on that home is a necessary hassle – but a new tech-driven company called Lemonade is starting to show that while it might indeed be a necessity, it doesn’t have to be a hassle. Here’s the way insurance typically works: You pay premiums and hope an accident never happens. […]
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Learn how to improve your memory with over 20 hours of training using proven psychology techniques
Bad news: Your brain reaches its peak performance sometime before you turn 26, and it’s all downhill from there. Good news: At any age, training with brain exercises has big-time benefits. Better news? The Ultimate Memory Mastery Bundle hooks you up with 20 hours of proven psychology and neuroscience techniques to boost your brain and […]
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One of these trusty multi-tools or pocket knives could be a virtual lifesaver
Admit it…even having a pocket knife within reach at a moment’s notice makes you feel a little like James Bond, right? Like, if you run up against a locked vault or a sinister superweapon, all you’d need are a couple of hand-held tools to diffuse the whole situation and save the world. Look, we don’t […]
