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Junk mail: stamp it out

Posted by | Jul 31, 2006 | |

When I go on holiday in ten days’ time I think I will have to take the back door key with me. After a fortnight away I certainly won’t be able to count on being able to push the front door open.
If you thought the piles of junk mail on your doormat were bad enough, they are just about to get ten times higher. Last week the Royal Mail and the Communication Workers’ Union agreed a deal that will see the floodgates open. Postmen were promised a 3.9 per cent rise in wages, and in return agreed to carry much greater quantities of blank, unaddressed mail.

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Relay Express growing tall on leftovers from shipping giants

Posted by | Jul 31, 2006 | |

In the world of shipping, UPS, FedEx and DHL stand tall as giants. Yet for all their trucks and planes running at all hours of the day and night, missed shipments happen.

That’s where companies such as Relay Express step in. The Cincinnatibased courier service has made a living in part by delivering those extra packages while specializing in on-demand and scheduled deliveries within cities.

Relay Express entered the Columbus market in January to perform those services in the central Ohio area, and has plans to expand. The courier’s efforts to sell its first franchises have cleared their last hurdle.

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Leo Suggs of UPS Freight to Retire; New Senior Leadership Named

Posted by | Jul 31, 2006 | |

Leo Suggs, the president of UPS Freight, has announced he will retire at the end of this year and effective immediately will devote the next five months to a broad service quality initiative at the national trucking concern.

UPS has named Gordon Mackenzie, most recently the senior vice president and chief operating officer of UPS Freight, as president. Mackenzie had held the position of chief operating officer since he joined Overnite Transportation in 1996. UPS acquired Overnite in August of 2005 and subsequently rebranded the unit as UPS Freight.

Before joining Overnite, Mackenzie served as senior vice president and chief operating officer of Preston Trucking Company Inc., from 1993 to 1996. He also held various executive positions with Standard Trucking Company, Ryder/PIE Nationwide, Inc., and Transcon Lines, Inc.

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Credit card cover costs GBP405 million less a year with Post Office

Posted by | Jul 31, 2006 | |

Post Office® research has found that if everyone in the UK who has credit card payment protection made two simple phone calls they could collectively save a staggering GBP405 million a year.

The Post Office® estimates that there are 10 million credit cards with payment protection in the UK2 and customers are currently spending GBP810 million annually protecting them – GBP405 million more than they need to.

The Post Office® is urging people not to automatically take cover with their credit card provider but look at other products available. For example, by switching to Lifestyle Protection from the Post Office®, a typical credit card customer with a balance of GBP5,000 would save themselves GBP17.00 a month or over GBP200 a year.

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ProLogis Leases Almost 1 Million Square Feet to Deutsche Post Companies

Posted by | Jul 31, 2006 | |

ProLogis , a leading global provider of distribution facilities and services, announced today that it has leased almost 1 million square feet of space (91,400 square meters) in Canada and The Netherlands to subsidiaries of the Deutsche Post World Net group.

In Canada, third-party logistics services provider Exel has leased 650,000 square feet (60,400 square meters) from ProLogis for a new distribution center outside Toronto. In The Netherlands, DHL has pre-leased a 333,500-square-foot (31,000-square-meter) facility ProLogis will develop in Tilburg, approximately 50 kilometers southeast of Rotterdam.

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FedEx Ground to build Triangle sort facility

Posted by | Jul 31, 2006 | |

FedEx Corp. plans to build a regional sorting facility near Raleigh-Durham International Airport to replace a smaller facility in Durham – a move that may result in new jobs.

FedEx Ground, the small-package delivery division of FedEx, has selected a piece of land near Kitty Hawk Drive and Globe Road in Morrisville to build a 128,851-square-foot facility.

The building will be 52 percent larger than FedEx Ground’s sorting facility in the Research Tri-Center industrial park in Durham, where 180 people work.

A contractor will be hired in late August, with building completion expected in August 2007. The building will be designed so that it can be easily expanded to as big as 175,000 square feet.

The new sorting facility is part of a six year, USD1.6 billion expansion program nationwide. FedEx Ground plans to build nine new hubs, expand 30 existing hubs and relocate 290 pickup and delivery terminals. The expansion will allow FedEx to expand its package capacity from 3 million to more than 5 million a day by the end of 2010.

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Banking Services At Post Offices Soon

Posted by | Jul 30, 2006 | |

An agreement should be signed within the next few days between Bank Pocztowy and Poczta Polska post office, regarding the opening of banking services at post offices. All necessary licenses to operate have already been acquired. Final approval had to be given by Transport Minister Jerzy Polaczek; he has now given the go ahead. The deal will allow banking services to be rendered by Bank Pocztowy in 5,000 post office outlets. “We shall provide our clients with all basic banking services, such as a good and competitive current account, access to which will be over the post office counter, telephone, Internet and through cash machines. Our clients will only have to pay PLN3.95 per month for their accounts. To my knowledge, we do not have a competitor who would offer such good conditions. There are of course certain niche offers, but without such easy access to one’s account,” said Piotr Kaminski, head of Bank Pocztowy.

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