Episode 95: e-commerce shipping to rural and remote addresses
Ian Kerr
Nina Ballantyne, Postal Policy Manager at Citizens Advice Scotland
How can a city of 200,000 people in mainland UK be classified as remote? Nina Ballantyne from Citizens Advice Scotland joins me to talk about research into higher shipping charges for people living in rural and remote areas of Scotland and what can be done to fix the problem. We cover:
- How shipping pricing is influencing customer behaviour
- The need for consistent, proportionate shipping pricing
- Transparency in shipping charges on e-commerce sites
- Cross-border e-commerce shipping costing less than domestic shipping
- Solutions to high shipping costs to rural and remote areas
- Using post offices as delivery aggregators
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