Weekly EasyPost shipping performance report by email
Every Monday, get a plain-language recap of last week's shipping spend, carrier performance, and delivery issues delivered straight to your inbox.
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GmailOperationsFinanceAI ReportsDaily DigestsEmail AutomationEvery Monday at 7am, review the past week of shipping activity in EasyPost and email a short performance report to our operations lead.
Pull the past week's shipments with EasyPost's List Shipments, filtered to shipments created in the last seven days using the start and end datetime filters, and page through all results so nothing is missed. Each shipment carries its selected rate and cost as a US dollar amount, along with its carrier, service level, origin, destination, and tracking status.
From that data, calculate:
Total shipping spend for the week.
Spend and shipment count broken out by carrier.
Average cost per shipment.
On-time versus delayed deliveries, comparing each shipment's actual or estimated delivery against its expected delivery date.
The week's exception rate, meaning the share of shipments sitting in an exception, failure, or return state.
Then call out the cheapest and most expensive shipping lanes (origin to destination) and any carrier that underperformed on cost or reliability.
Write this up as a short, plain-language readout a manager can skim in about a minute: a one-line takeaway at the top, a few tight sections or bullets with the key numbers, and a sentence or two of narrative on what changed and what to watch. Do not dump a raw table of every shipment, and avoid jargon.
Email the finished summary to our operations lead through Gmail using Send a Message, with a clear subject line such as 'Weekly shipping performance: week of <date>'.
What does this prompt do?
- Adds up your total shipping spend for the past week and breaks it down by carrier and shipment count.
- Shows your average cost per shipment, on-time versus delayed deliveries, and the share of shipments that ran into a problem.
- Flags your cheapest and most expensive shipping lanes and any carrier that fell behind on cost or reliability.
- Emails the finished summary to your operations lead as a quick, skimmable readout instead of a wall of raw data.
What do I need to use this?
- An EasyPost account with recent shipments.
- A Gmail account to send the report from.
- The email address of the person who should receive the weekly report.
How can I customize it?
- Change the day and time it runs, for example Friday afternoon instead of Monday morning.
- Send it to more than one person, like your whole operations team.
- Adjust the time window or add your own targets, such as a cost-per-shipment goal to measure against.
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Stop digging through shipping data every Monday.
Get a clear, one-minute readout of last week's shipping performance in your inbox automatically.