Can Amazon shipping fees be set differently? How to calculate the cost?

We all know that when you send express mail, the charges are different in different regions. Therefore, when you open a store on the Amazon cross-border e-commerce platform, you also need to bear the postage yourself. Can Amazon charge different fees for shipping?

1. Can Amazon set different shipping fees?

No, the postage rates are all the same and there is no way to set different rates.

2. How to calculate the cost?

1. Domestic receipt and customs clearance, international transportation, overseas customs declaration and distribution are the three necessary steps for goods to reach customers from the domestic market. To achieve seamless connection of the entire logistics process and break the constraints of time, space and cost, higher requirements are placed on warehousing and transportation.

2. Logistics costs, including transportation and warehousing. For transportation, sea, air, and rail transportation, if it is direct mail, will account for about 20% of the goods. For example, if you buy an item worth 300 yuan, the shipping fee may be as high as 60 yuan. Warehousing costs are also a large expense for cross-border e-commerce.

3. As cross-border import and export trade often involves many links such as international settlement, domestic and foreign customs clearance, logistics transshipment, and international transport resource allocation, logistics issues are the biggest problem restricting the development of the industry. The logistics cost of cross-border e-commerce not only accounts for 20% to 30% of the total cost, but also among the current domestic logistics companies, third-party service providers that can provide standardized and customized logistics services for cross-border e-commerce consumers are difficult to meet market demand.

3. How to control logistics costs?

As we all know, logistics and freight are important expenses for cross-border e-commerce practitioners in calculating operating costs. Therefore, from the selection of logistics channels and the calculation of freight to the bagging and packaging of products, every node will be the key for sellers to try to reduce freight costs. How should sellers reduce logistics costs? Just entering 2018, cross-border e-commerce sellers have ushered in a trend of cross-border logistics price increases. First, FedEx announced that it would increase freight rates from January 1, 2018, followed by DHL, UPS, US Postal Service, French Post, Dutch Post and other postal and express delivery companies in many countries also raised freight rates.

Amazon's shipping costs are mostly borne half by both parties, and all the cost models are the same, so there is no way to set different fees. Under normal circumstances, we cannot offer free shipping because the cost is too high, but we cannot not offer free shipping because sales will be too low, so half-free shipping is the best.

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