Postal Hub podcast

Ep 280: Parcel pricing strategies with Open Pricer

Daniel Rueda, CEO of Open Pricer, discusses parcel pricing strategies, dynamic pricing, fuel surcharges, and more:

  • Key parcel pricing challenges
  • Volatility, inflation, and fluctuating demand influencing costs
  • Impact of fuel price increases
  • Fuel surcharges (or energy surcharges) and limitations of fuel indexation
  • Other surcharges, such as safety surcharges
  • Differentiating price increases per customer
  • Profile compliance (contract monitoring)
  • Identifying churn risks and up-sell opportunities
  • Implementing price increase campaigns
  • Dynamic pricing
  • Changing from annual reviews to more frequent reviews
  • Surcharge incentives to move volumes to off-peak days or weeks
  • Peak surcharges