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Agent Kartonix and his Special Packaging service

Posted by | Sep 25, 2006 | |

DPD Masterlink introduced a new added value service, Special Packaging. This service will not only help the customer to save valuable time and money, but also decrease the number of complaints concerning damaged parcels, which resulted from insufficient packaging.

In order to use the services of a courier company one must prepare a parcel for transport, which means providing adequate packaging. Beyond doubt, the most problematic objects are those, which due to their size do not fit into standard envelopes and carton boxes or are so fragile that only carefully packed can avoid damage during transport. These objects are for e.g. big format posters, electronic devices or porcelain.

Thanks to the service Special Packaging the customer can, not only, purchase 13 different formats of packages for a preferential price carton and polystyrene boxes, tubes, bubble foil, plastic envelopes, pallets, but also order the service Special Project Logistics, meaning which DPD Masterlink will conduct the whole process of distribution starting from the collection of components from the customer, through picking&packing according to individual requirements up to delivery and preparation of specialist reports.

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Japan's major parcel deliverer to end deals with UPS

Posted by | Sep 25, 2006 | |

Yamato Transport Co. will start its own international delivery service as a replacement for a service deal with United Parcel Service starting on Oct. 1, the company said on Monday.

Yamato, the leading private parcel delivery service company in Japan, is ready to launch its own service, which it says will be up to 60 percent cheaper than UPS.

The Tokyo-based company expects that there is enough demand for it services, including the shipment of business documents and free sample distribution. It aims to deliver 3 million parcels, and 10 percent of the international small cargo market.

In its new service, the company set prices by dividing the world into four areas and weight into seven areas, from one kilogram up to 25. Delivery of a one-kilogram parcel from Tokyo to any city in Asia will be as much as 1,600 yen, as opposed to the UPS “deputy” delivery for 4,000 yen, the company said. Delivery will take three to seven days.

(116.44 yen = 1 USD)

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FedEx Corp. elects Steve Loranger, ITT chairman, as new director

Posted by | Sep 25, 2006 | |

Shareowners of FedEx Corp. today elected Steven R. Loranger, chairman, president and chief executive officer of ITT Corporation, to the corporation’s Board of Directors for a one-year term. The Board of Directors has appointed Loranger as a member of its Audit committee.

Before being named to his current position at ITT Corporation, a global, multi-industry engineering and manufacturing company, Loranger was executive vice president and chief operating officer of Textron, Inc., a global aircraft, industrial and finance company. Before joining Textron, Loranger held various executive positions at Honeywell International Inc. and its predecessor AlliedSignal, Inc., a technology and manufacturing company, including president and chief executive officer of Honeywell’s Engines, Systems and Services division. Loranger served as an officer and pilot in the United States Navy from 1975 to 1981. Loranger is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Colorado, where he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in natural science.

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GBP2.2m mail sorting office opens

Posted by | Sep 25, 2006 | |

A brand new multi-million pound Royal Mail postal sorting office has opened in Suffolk.
The GBP2.2m centre on Skyliner Way in Bury St Edmunds brings together 140 postmen and women delivering more than 100,000 letters and parcels a day.

The old premises on St Andrew’s Street South, which had been home to the Royal Mail since the 1960s, will be redeveloped as part of a town project.

There will be no change to deliveries in the Bury St Edmunds area.

‘Great news’

Senior delivery manager Steve Glenn said: “This is actually purpose-built for our operation today.

“It’s great news for our people who deserve better and more modern facilities than we have had up to now in the new building.

“I can honestly say at this moment this is the best delivery office in the country.”

Staff moved from the old offices to the new ones over the weekend.

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Post Office® Ants set to raise funds for hospices across the country

Posted by | Sep 25, 2006 | |

Post Office Ltd is producing a range of special edition pin badges in a new initiative to raise funds for its major supported charity, Help the Hospices. Funds raised will be split between a number of local hospices across the country.

The rubber badges feature the Post Office®’s well-known family of ants, with each one waving a ‘Help the Hospices’ placard. They will be on sale in 500 Post Office® branches across the UK for two months from today (25 September) for a suggested minimum donation of GBP1.

Six different badges are being produced, each featuring different characters from the Post Office® ant family. One of the badges, featuring the twins, will be available only as a special edition for collectors. Some 3,000 of these special collectable badges will be available via mail order from Help the Hospices (tel 0207 520 8245 or email [email protected]).

Branch staff are also being encouraged to sell the badges through an internal competition, with a prize for the branch that sells the most.

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Online postage not for NZ Post

Posted by | Sep 25, 2006 | |

Britain’s Royal Mail has launched a service that lets customers do away with stamps and pay for postage online, but NZ Post is unimpressed and doesn’t expect to follow suit anytime soon.

They are then able to print a unique barcode directly on to an envelope or on to a label or paper that can be attached to the item before it is posted. The barcode acts as proof of payment, like a stamp.

NZ Post’s general manager of stamps, Ivor Master, says NZ Post looked at introducing a similar service, “but after consideration decided to offer some other, equally innovative services instead”.

NZ Post customers can go online to design and pay for booklets of their own personalised stamps that are then posted to them.

In November, NZ Post expects to debut “customised advertising labels”. These will let businesses personalise post-paid envelopes with their own brands or labels by going online to a secure section of the company’s website.
Mr Masters says this will mean businesses could alter the look of their mail-outs for short periods, without incurring high printing costs.

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Aeon, Japan Post say to expand cooperation

Posted by | Sep 25, 2006 | |

Japanese retailer Aeon Co. and Japan Post [JP.UL] said on Monday they would expand their cooperation in delivery services and postcard sales, a move that could grow into an alliance in financial operations.

Aeon, the country’s second-biggest retail conglomerate after Seven & I Holdings , and Japan Post had already joined forces in some areas, including handling of the national postal service provider’s Yu-Pack parcel post at the retailer’s Ministop convenience store chain outlets.

Aeon’s shopping centres and stores also house seven post offices, and that number is increasing.

Japan Post, which has a network of nearly 25,000 post offices and some USD3 trillion in assets, is scheduled to be gradually privatised from next year, intensifying competition with rivals such as parcel delivery firm Yamato Holdings Co. .

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Board approves plan to replace narrow-body aircraft fleet with Boeing 757-200 aircraft

Posted by | Sep 25, 2006 | |

FedEx announced today a USD2.6 billion, multi-year program to acquire and modify nearly 90 Boeing 757-200 aircraft to replace FedEx Express’s narrow-body fleet of Boeing 727-200 aircraft. Subject to identification of suitable 757 aircraft to purchase and the successful negotiation of agreements to purchase such aircraft, FedEx Express expects to bring the new aircraft into service during the eight-year period between calendar year 2008 and 2016.

Compared to the 727 aircraft, the 757 has a 20 percent greater payload capacity, and has an approximately 25 percent lower operating cost per pound. Replacing the older 727 aircraft with the more fuel efficient and quieter 757 aircraft will have the effect of significantly reducing operating costs over time and providing better aircraft utilization efficiencies. In addition, the program will help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and airport noise. The program is expected to have very positive financial benefits upon completion and although startup costs will be incurred, they will not materially affect earnings. The capital impact of the program on the current fiscal year was included in the company’s recent first quarter earnings release. The total FedEx capital spending forecast for fiscal 2007 remains at USD3.0 billion.

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