Tag: pickup-dropoff
Blog posts tagged with "pickup-dropoff"
Your customers’ growing procrastination is costing you
Trunk time. It’s a term we coined back in 2003 to call attention to how long consumers tend to wait before returning an online purchase, often because of the perceived inconvenience of having to travel to a returns drop-off location.
Returnament: Home pickup and drop-off locations
When it comes to carrier drop-off locations, the post office wins solidly as “the best balance of friction” against its two biggest competitors.
Third party returns pickup is an unproven rookie
Despite being pitched as an ultra-convenient returns option, consumers rank third-party delivery services solidly last out of different methods for initiating a pick-up.
Introducing: Returnament 2022
Amid all-time-high return rates, Pitney Bowes created a competition to find the best balance between returns convenience and just enough friction
Curb (or couch) your enthusiasm?
We ask consumers whether buy-online-pickup-somewhere is eating into the popularity of home delivery
An evolving definition of returns convenience
Forged during the pandemic, consumers’ definition of ‘easy’ returns continues to shift
The junk in your customers’ trunk is costing you
The pandemic is affecting the time it takes to recover online returns while impacting customer service calls.
Here come the returns
This peak, home pickup is the #1 returns option for COVID-weary consumers, yet half don’t know which carriers offer it for free.
Porch piracy is a problem. Or so I’ve heard.
7 in 10 say that it’s a problem that needs to be solved ASAP. 1 in 5 have actually experienced it.
Sad returns: the challenge with in-person drop-off
Among pandemic-weary consumers, nearly half find the process annoying.