The purpose of this blog post is to keep you informed of some most recent updates about worldwide shipping performance (as of April 2021), which are prepared by our data analytics team at Xianchao Logistics. We hope to provide you with some valuable insights so that you can make better decisions in managing your dropshipping business.
The countries with the most packages sent monthly are typically United Kingdom, United States and Australia.

The chart below (April Shipping Time) gives the aggregated shipping time across all shipping lines at the 15th and 85th percentile. The 15th percentile means 15% of the packages have arrived at the destination country within the specified days or less.
Shipping time (for normal goods)
United Kingdom: 7.6 - 9.6 days
United States: 12 - 17.8 days
Australia: 8.5 - 11.3 days
Shipping time (for electronic goods)
United Kingdom: 6.8 - 8.3 days
United States: 9.6 - 14. days
Australia: 9.6 - 13 days
Chart 1: April Shipping Time

Looking at how shipping time changed over the past 3 months, the chart below (Changes in Shipping Time) shows the shipping time taken every half a month.
Changes (for normal goods)
United Kingdom: a little fluctuation, but for most, fairly stagnant
United States: great fluctuations
Australia: decreasing slightly, but still fairly stagnant
Changes (for electronic goods)
United Kingdom: slight decreasing trend
United States: lesser variations
Australia: slight fluctuations, but decreasing trend from March
Chart 2: Changes in Shipping Time

Recommended shipping lines based on time
Based on further in-depth analysis on our data, these are some of the recommended shipping lines based on shipping time for the 3 different countries:
United Kingdom
Yanwen / 燕文 for normal packages
4px / 递四方 for electronic packages. However, it may be good to also consider using 4px / 递四方 for normal packages as well.
United States
Exit Yi / 出口易 for both normal and electronic packages.
Australia
TopYou / 通邮 for normal packages
Huahan / 华翰 for electronic packages
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