Right now we operate out of a warehouse, but we are looking at adding a retail location.
We like to put our eggs in several baskets, and with a retail location, we were thinking of providing a shipping service, as an additional revenue stream. We are using a shipping reseller and are getting excellent rates, so we have plenty of room to skim some profit off the top., plus we can heavily undercut everybody else on shipping supplies due our volume with the e-commerce operations.
The shipping reseller (a major one) said they had no problems with this, despite the fact they have a clause in the boiler Terms of service, saying no reselling of shipping services, and it's just a CYA clause, so we are authorized to become an unauthorized shipping agent as far the shipping reseller is concerned.
As a caveat, i was talking to marketing instead of legal, so this whole thing could go south, but I have the entire conversation recorded.
The way I look at it, people can use these services directly and get the savings, and we are providing a service for them to generate a shipping label, as alot of people rather have the work done for them for a few bucks, rather than using a piece of shipping software which in most cases is non-intuitive in a lot of cases.
