NEW SHIPPING OPPORTUNITY IN CANADA – USPS using OCS & Postal Promotions

USPS has announced that it has signed an agreement with Vancouver-based company Overseas Courier Service (OCS), to provide a new route for Canadian business to deliver to their US customers. This comes on the heels of a similar arrangement with Postal Promotions of Toronto.

We wonder how long before Canada Post announces some similar arrangements for their US clients to bypass USPS? And what about Canada Post delivering across the border? They could certainly deliver to the border regions more economically than their US counterpart.

It would be nice to see some European style competition creeping into North America
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — The U. S. Postal Service today signed an agreement with Overseas Courier Service (OCS), Canada, an international courier service company, to provide companies in Canada with a new option for shipping to the United States.

“We are pleased to join with OCS, Canada, in making it easier for Canadian businesses and multi-national enterprises to provide seamless delivery from Canada to the United States,” said James P. Wade, vice president, International Business for the Postal Service.

The Postal Service is the universal gateway to 134 million addresses in the United States and delivers letters and packages six days a week, and Express Mail seven days a week. OCS is a Canadian owned company with five offices across Canada. It is part of a worldwide network, which provides domestic and international letter and parcel delivery service to 199 countries throughout the world. The Postal Service and OCS have matched strengths to provide companies in Canada with a priority package and ground delivery service to U.S. consumers and businesses.

“I feel this is an excellent opportunity to utilize the combined strengths of two organizations that possess extensive and well organized delivery networks in their respective countries. Most of all, it pleases me to now be able to offer our customers an even more economical way to ship to the U.S.,” said Barry Tyrer, President and owner of OCS, Canada.

OCS will prepare shipments, transport them to the United States, clear them through commercial customs and then enter the packages into the Postal Service’s domestic delivery network.

The Postal Service’s Global Business Development group has recently established similar agreements with commercial enterprises in South Korea, Mexico, Europe, Central America, South America and Asia and is seeking to build a global network for premium delivery service from around the world into the United States.