Shipping Costs and How They Might Vary
Online ordering is so convenient. Visit stores all over the world, and even have access to other peoples' homes when you order from a home based business. The greatest convenience is that you don't have to leave your computer chair. The cost for this convenience...shipping fees. This isn't always so painful, but since our transportation is based on fossil fuels, we are slaves to the changing costs, and world events that endanger that supply. Even only if the danger is possible, rather than expected. Online businesses have to rely on shipping companies, and shipping companies rely on those fossil fuels. The result is that our shipping fees keep changing, and usually that means that they are going up.
Don't let companies that offer free shipping fool you. Shipping is never free. Either the customer is paying for shipping with higher product prices so that the business can recoup those shipping fees they advertise as being free, or the company is relying on mass sales to try and gain discounts from the shipping companies. If they drop below a quota, the company will have to make changes. Shipping just isn't free.
Our Solution
We have struggled to find ways to help our customers with shipping costs. From staying open longer hours so that our customers can pick up their products after work, or even while just passing through town, to bringing their orders with us if we are going to be in that part of the country. We have limits though with the physical solutions.
Our items available on the Order Tableware Page have online ordering that includes shipping based on each individual item. This is how much it would cost to send one set of Animal Waste Bags, or one Shopping Box. We do have Pre-made sets, and Business Bundles to help with variety too, and they have set shipping amounts for the set. However, if you would like to order a different variety of items or multiples of the same, you would have the individual shipping charges all adding together which could be more than you need to pay. We would like to try and pack all of the items into one parcel and save on some shipping costs for you, so we have set up a Special Orders Page.
Special Orders Page
This is how it works:
You check to see which items you would like, and if we have them in the available sets. If you are ordering a variety of items, or multiples of the same item, and you know that we could pack them into one parcel, contact us at sales@perronsecosolutions.com, or call 807-252-1856 and let us know what you would like as well as your postal/zip code. We will get an accurate shipping amount for you, and then send you an ADD TO CART button by e-mail. We will also add your name and the same button link to our Special Orders Page. We will include a link to this page in the e-mail as well. You can then either follow the link in the e-mail or visit our Special Orders Page and process your order.
We hope that this will help save our customers unnecessary shipping costs.
Example of how your name and link will appear on the Special Orders page.
Click on the ADD TO CART button, and process your order.
John Smith ADD TO CART
When Shipping is Higher Due to Distance
We have tried to make a reasonable shipping rate for our cases of product. However, there is a huge difference between shipping it 200km to shipping it 1500km. We may have to contact our customer if the shipping rate is much higher than listed. Small differences will not be adjusted.
You can check this information yourself by obtaining the measurements and weights of your case(s) from us, and visiting this link to Canada Post.
If you have a UPS account, or you would like to use a different shipping option, we can work with you for that too.
If we do have to adjust the shipping amount higher, we would notify you of the difference, and e-mail you a link with an ADD TO CART button, as well as a link to our Special Orders page where we would have your name listed with the ADD TO CART button beside it with the order and shipping adjustment.
We will keep your name and the order link on the Special Orders page for 1 week, and then we will remove it.
We hope that this option will provide a more accurate shipping cost.
Thank you