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USPS Unveils Shape-Based Pricing Plans

Posted by | Oct 25, 2006 | |

The U.S. Postal Service has proposed rules to encourage mail preparation compatible with the agency’s improved processing capabilities, including the depositing of flats and parcels closer to where they are delivered.

The proposal, published Sept. 27 in the Federal Register, would accompany the price changes expected to take effect next spring under the current rate case.

“The proposed mailing standards … offer our customers more choices in terms of shape, sorting, packaging and using containers to encourage the production of efficient, effective mail,” USPS spokesman David Partenheimer said.

The USPS filed May 3 with the Postal Rate Commission for an average 8.5 percent rate increase. The PRC is expected to make a recommendation to the postal service’s Board of Governors on the case in March. Postmaster General John E. Potter told USPS business customers Sept. 20 that the agency must prepare for a possible May 6 rate change date.

The proposed prices recognize that each shape of mail piece — letter, flat and parcel — has substantially different processing costs that need to be covered, the USPS said in the Sept. 27 filing.

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Interim Report for July–September 2006: Finland Post’s Growth Continues

Posted by | Oct 25, 2006 | |

A quarter of net sales based on international operations

• Consolidated net sales for Q3/2006 improved to EUR 359.8 million over the same period a year ago (EUR 309.9 million in Q3/2005), up by 16%, company acquisitions and organic growth accounting for 13% and 3%, respectively. Non-Finnish operations accounted for 25% (17%) of net sales.

• Consolidated operating profit for the period came to EUR 15.5 million (EUR 17.1 million), representing 4.3% (5.5%) of consolidated net sales. Profit before tax totalled EUR 16.4 million (EUR 18.5 million).

• Within Messaging, letter-mail volumes declined in line with the pan-European trend. Information Logistics’ net sales showed favourable developments in all of its product groups, with the exception of Germany. Logistics reported growth of 56% in its net sales, organic growth accounting for 11 percentage points.

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IP Telephony in TNT Express Poland

Posted by | Oct 25, 2006 | |

TNT Express Poland, branch of one of the world’s leading business to business express delivery company, has implemented the IP telephony system.

The IP telephony system covers all offices in Poland, making up a total near 500 users. The system implemented by TNT Express Poland is a response to a corporate program designed to unify customer service standards. Poland is the first country where TNT has addressed the challenge of implementing a project with such a high level of distribution.

– This pioneering solution allows the company to capture actual flexibility in phone call management. We have fulfilled the crucial factor to further territorial expansion of TNT Express Poland – says Robert Mianowski, General Manager TNT Express Poland.

This unification of telecommunications system entails a number of benefits also for the TNT clients, including reduced call centre waiting times. If the number dialed is busy or the client makes a call outside working hours, the system automatically searches for an available agent in other branches. This is of crucial importance in many situations, including accumulated calls from clients in one branch. The possibility to monitor the service in real time and to make immediate changes in configuration allows eliminating problems and consistently improving the quality of services provided.

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ABX Air gets ready to help Santa

Posted by | Oct 25, 2006 | |

At Shoreview Facility ABX Air, Inc. is gearing up for a busy holiday season and has launched a recruiting campaign to hire up to 3,000 seasonal and part-time package sorters at facilities across the U.S., including as many as 50 positions at its Shoreview, Minn. facility.

ABX Air manages and operates 19 package-sorting hubs across the country for DHL as well as three mail sorting hubs for the US Postal Service. The main hub in Wilmington, Ohio, processes nearly one million shipments each week night. System-wide, the company manages the movement of over six million pounds of freight in a 24-hour period.

Those numbers are considerably higher during the last quarter of each year with the traditional increase in holiday shipments.

“The seasonal hiring push becomes a great way for individuals to secure extra income during the holiday season,” said Valerie Scarfpin, Manager of Recruiting for ABX Air. “We already have applications coming in on our web site, but we expect a very busy holiday season and we have increased our hiring targets to accommodate the heavy package loads we expect over the next several months.”

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Austrian Post in exclusive talks to buy German firm trans-o-flex

Posted by | Oct 25, 2006 | |

Austrian Post announced today that it is in exclusive negotiations to buy German express firm trans-o-flex, its European parcels cooperation partner. The stock exchange listed Austrian postal operator said it was in talks with the company’s current owners, the private equity funds of Odewald & Compagnie and the Alpha Group. No further information was released. Austrian Post and trans-o-flex agreed a wide-ranging cooperation deal at the end of 2005 following earlier speculation that the postal operator wanted to buy the expanding German specialist logistics company.

Under the cooperation agreement, Post Austria joined the trans-o-flex Eurodis network, providing parcel delivery services in Austria and various south-eastern European countries where it has subsidiaries. In return, Trans-o-flex distributes the Austrian post office’s parcels in Germany. The Eurodis network covers about 20 European countries through a range of partnership agreements.

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UPS expands HQ at Philippines' Clark into Intra-Asia hub

Posted by | Oct 25, 2006 | |

US-based United Parcel Service (UPS) has expanded its headquarters for US$1.4 million and converted it into its Intra-Asia hub.

The formal conversion of UPS-Clark as Intra-Asia hub was highlighted with the launching of UPS fourth annual global volunteer week conducted in barangay (community village) Cauayan here with some 300 of its Philippine-based employees participating. The UPS-Clark 16,500-square-metre area in the 2,500-hectare Diosdado Macapagal International Airport are worth some USD7 million but the network costs about USD300 million including value of aircraft.

UPS-Clark has 120 weekly incoming and outgoing flights between such routes as Hong Kong, Cologne, Dubai, Taipei, Kansai, Cebu, Narita, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Shenzhen, Incheon and Mumbai.

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FedEx Ground VP dies

Posted by | Oct 24, 2006 | |

Bram Johnson, a key member of FedEx Ground’s executive team, died at the age of 59 on Friday of natural causes while hiking with friends in Spain.

Johnson was one of two executive vice presidents at FedEx Ground, based in Moon Township, and a direct report to president and CEO Daniel Sullivan. As the company’s first vice president of marketing, he helped to found Roadway Package System, the predecessor to FedEx Ground.

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