From October, UPS customers in Europe and North America are to be offered a new streamlined reverse logistics service for returning items from consumers.
FedEx has opened a new gateway office in Chicago, as it continues to "aggressively" expand its international ocean and air freight forwarding business.
Neopost, the mail processing equipment provider, has posted a 5.7% increase in profits for the whole of 2010.
DHL Global Forwarding is working to accredit several of its North American sites as Qualified Envirotainer Providers (QEP) by the end of this year.
Nationwide, about 218,000 of the blue boxes have vanished from streets in the nation's cities and towns since 1985, dwindling down to just under 177,000 today.
The Postal Service announced that 413 retail stations and branches remain under consideration for possible consolidation.
USPS is offering thousands of employees cash incentives to retire or resign by the end of this fiscal year.
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