Canadian Holiday Shipping 2026: Peak Fees and Deadlines
Every national Canadian carrier’s 2026 holiday fees and last days to ship for Christmas, on one page, with the official source and the date we checked.
Canadian Carrier Rate Increase Tracker: Who Has Announced, and When
Which Canadian carriers have announced their next rate increase? Dates, published amounts and official sources for Canada Post, Purolator, UPS, FedEx, Canpar and more.
ShipStation for Canadian Users: What It Does for Your Shipping Costs in 2026
Yes, ShipStation works well for Canadian e-commerce merchants, and it’s the platform most of them run on, including the 240+ Canadian businesses that ship through Part n Parcel’s network. It handles the daily work of shipping: it pulls orders in from Shopify and your marketplaces, prints labels, compares rates across your connected carriers, and automates […]
Does ShipStation Rate Shopping Save You Money in Canada?
If you ship from Canada and use ShipStation, there’s a good chance you’ve turned on rate shopping, the setting that automatically picks the cheapest available rate for every order. It feels like free money. Flip a switch and let the software find the best deal. For most Canadian merchants, that’s not what happens. When an […]
What Does Free Shipping Actually Cost a Canadian E-commerce Brand?
A typical online order leaving a Toronto warehouse costs about $12.50 to ship to a customer in Ontario. The same order costs about $22 to reach Newfoundland. Same product, same free-shipping promise, and the second parcel takes $9.50 more out of your margin. Most Canadian merchants have never worked out their shipping cost province by […]
How to Negotiate Carrier Rates as a Canadian Small Business in 2026
Yes, your carrier rate is negotiable. Most Canadian small businesses still pay too much because the only number they negotiate is the base discount, the percentage taken off the carrier’s standard rates. Everything billed on top of it goes untouched. Merchants almost always forget something when they sit down with a carrier, and it is […]
Chit Chats and Stallion Express Are Good Platforms. Here’s When You’ve Outgrown Them.
Ask a merchant why they left their shipping platform and you will usually hear about a parcel, not a rate. Something went missing, they filed a claim, and every time they chased it they landed in the same queue, waiting on the same company to rule on a problem that company had caused. They could […]
Canadian E-Commerce Shipping Cost Benchmarks 2026: What 22,353 Real Invoices Reveal
The median Canadian DTC merchant in our analysis is overpaying on shipping by 30.7%. That number comes from 22,353 domestic carrier invoices across 11 merchants, all shipped between January and May 2026. For every parcel, we placed the merchant’s actual paid rate beside the rate that same parcel would have cost through Part n Parcel’s […]
Why Is Shipping So Expensive in Canada for E-commerce? (2026)
Shipping is expensive in Canada for reasons that go well beyond geography. Yes, carriers cover enormous distances to reach a thinly spread population, and that sets a high floor. But the charges that keep climbing after you sign a deal have nothing to do with distance. Carriers negotiate every rate privately, so no merchant can […]
How to Get Enterprise Shipping Rates as a Canadian Small Business (2026)
A Canadian small business usually can’t negotiate true enterprise shipping rates on its own. The volume bar is too high, the timeline is too long, and no realistic growth rate closes the gap fast enough. Enterprise-level rates are still reachable, but through a different structure: pooled network volume, direct carrier accounts kept in the merchant’s […]