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Heavy parcels above 10 lb hit a punitive band
Carriers price the 10–30 lb band aggressively against shippers without a dedicated weight-band rate sheet.
Industries · Pet Supplies
Heavy parcels, subscription cadence, Amazon-led.
Pet food is heavy, subscription-driven, and frequently routed through Amazon. We negotiate the weight bands carriers underprice, audit the residential surcharges, and protect Prime eligibility on SFP.
Where the money leaks
Three problems we see in every pet audit.
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Subscription churn is delivery-driven
Late or damaged auto-ship boxes lose customers permanently.
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Amazon SFP costs are opaque
Brands running SFP without a Prime-safe rate strategy lose Prime or lose margin.
Our playbook
Four levers, specifically for pet.
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Heavy-band rate negotiation
10–30 lb band gets its own line in the negotiation, not absorbed into the average.
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Amazon Shipping wiring
Add Amazon Shipping into the rate-shop. Keeps Prime, cuts per-parcel cost on lanes Amazon wins.
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Residential audit
Pet-supply customers often live at addresses misclassified as commercial — and vice versa. Audit fixes the classification at the source.
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Subscription drop contracts
Predictable monthly auto-ship volume negotiated as recurring, not ad-hoc.
Best fit if you are
- ✓Pet food and supply DTC brands
- ✓Subscription pet programs
- ✓Amazon-heavy pet sellers
- ✓Multi-SKU pet retailers
Probably not for you if
Local pet retailers without national parcel volume.
Other industries
Different verticals, same audit-first approach.
E-commerce & DTC
Shopify, BigCommerce, Amazon, multi-channel — we cover the full carrier stack you're juggling.
Open playbook →Third-Party Logistics (3PL)
Carrier rates are the second-biggest line on your bid sheet. We negotiate them as one consolidated book.
Open playbook →Distribution & B2B Wholesale
B2B parcel is a different problem from DTC. We treat it that way.
Open playbook → Want the pet playbook on your invoices?
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