James Cartledge speaks to USPS vice president, domestic products, Gary Reblin about how an emphasis on regional shipping and more flexible pricing is inspiring growth in the Postal Service package business.
Read MoreA new lightweight parcels service launched this week in the United States, designed to meet the needs of e-commerce merchants.
Read MoreAfter years of being held hostage by United Parcel Service’s virtual monopoly on package delivery, shippers are looking to several relatively new competitors for rescue. But while Federal Express’s FedEx Home Delivery ground service and the U.S. Postal Service’s Parcel Select are options, UPS still retains supremacy.
To be sure, UPS’s stranglehold on the standard parcel delivery catalog market has loosened during the past five years. Credit–or blame–goes primarily to its annual rate increases, which have averaged 4%-5%. Among the mailers participating in CATALOG AGE’s 2001 Benchmark Report on Operations (see the March 15 issue), UPS was the standard-delivery shipper of choice for 50%. But 78% of the respondents to the survey five years earlier had named UPS their primary carrier.
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