America is Getting Holiday Packages As Fast As They Can, Are You Ready to Receive Them?

People all over the country are preparing their game plans for holiday shopping. With Black Friday fast approaching, you should ask yourself, “Is my organization ready to receive the fruits of their labor?” In 2011, holiday spending amounted to $52 billion, with $35.3 billion spent online between November 1st and December 26th. This online shopping represented a 15% increase from the previous year. This trend is expected to continue with a 12% increase in online shopping for the 2012 holiday season. Since virtually every gift purchased online is shipped, this means that more packages will be coming through your doors than ever this year. Are you ready for them?

Whether you work at a university, residential building, or hotel, you can expect an exponential increase in the number of incoming packages during the holiday season. All of these packages will need your attention or supervision on some level. Do you remember what a pain it was to deal with those packages last year? Since the increasing trend of online shopping is not going away, this boost in online shopping will only inflate the amount of packages coming into your organization. Surmounting the task of logging and distributing these packages can be daunting, but package logging software makes tackling that mountain of packages EZ.

Holiday packages are often more time sensitive than general packages. Your package recipients want to know that they will receive their packages as soon as possible, especially if they are gifts that they have ordered for others. Implementing a package inventory system helps your staff log packages 4 to 10 times faster than continuing to log them by hand. By reducing processing time with package logging software, your organization can ensure that these packages reach their recipients as soon as possible. Once they are logged, our package logging software will automatically send notification via email, text message or even Facebook, to alert recipients that their packages have arrived. Knowing that their packages are being processed efficiently with our package inventory system and that they will receive a notification of their arrival automatically will put your students, residents or guests at ease.

If you’re not quite ready for the influx of packages coming your way, don’t fret! Contact us or try a demo of our package logging software, complete with all the hardware you need to get started logging packages for the next 30 days. Let EZTrackIt help you prepare for this holiday season the EZ way.