Postal Connections® “Seals The Deal” With a PackageHub® Strategic Alliance

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July 29, 2022 // Franchising.com // Postal Connections® has teamed up in a co-branding alliance with the PackageHub Business Centers® franchise network. The move strengthens both franchise models without merging or subordinating either company to the other. Postal Connections franchisees maintain their brand identity and franchise status while adding PackageHub® franchise membership and identity. PackageHub franchises continue their membership and keep their local identity.

The PackageHub is made up primarily of former independent retailers. Adding the Postal Connections franchise network, brings expertise in new unit franchise expansion. Current and new franchisees have the option to join PackageHub bringing its strength of greater size and expertise in dealing with key vendors for favorable wholesale pricing. The PackageHub network is a retail distribution channel to consumers for many logistics companies and business services providers. Additionally, PackageHub brings ongoing operational and marketing support as well as training opportunities.

The Postal Connections network locations includes multiple and individual unit franchisee operators. According to Fred Morache, COO and franchisor, “This is a deal that delivers new services to franchise outlets and improves wholesale prices and shipping rates. Co-branding is an innovative solution for us as a smaller franchise network to gain muscle to support franchisees locally.”

Postal Connections franchisees have had a long business relationship with PackageHub’s President, Brandon Gale. It began in 2007, with Gale as the President of Retail Shipping Associates (RSA), the retail sector’s largest national trade group with approximately 6,900 members, for which Gale still serves as

President.'“Nationally, becoming part of the Package Hub network is reserved for the best-of-the-best RSA Premium Members, which includes the Postal Connections locations,” said Gale. “The UPS Authorized Shipping Outlet status achieved with the PackageHub co-branding alliance means that all Postal Connections locations will offer customers a choice of all carriers, prices and delivery schedules, as well as authorized drop-off return convenience and trusted advice from expert staff on best key vendor options.”

PackageHub and Postal Connections co-branding brings customer convenience and ease of locating the nearest service center on the web.

“We are launching this partnership as we deepen our roots into the communities we serve. The PackageHub and Postal Connections co-branding brings convenience and new services from digital finger printing to competitive freight quotes to the location nearest you,” noted Morache.

Based in Frisco, Texas, Postal Connections presents itself as more than a pack and ship store. Today, it is a provider of a wide array of business and personal services, offering convenient access to postal products, mail receiving, shipping with all leading carriers, accepting drop offs and package pickups, freight, printing, creative services, copying, fax, passport photos, notary, shredding, digital fingerprinting and other hard to find services.

SOURCE Postal Connections

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