Is Shopify Shipping the best option for discounts with the major carriers?

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Scott Zamora

Sunday, September 22, 2019

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Shipping through Shopify is easy and awesome. You get good discounts too.

Michael Hammond

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

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Since you're based in the US, you can enable third-party carrier-calculated shipping using USPS.

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