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UPS Builds Platform for Profitable Growth

Posted by | Oct 30, 2003 | |

UPS expects to grow significantly next year and into the future because of a strategy of building capabilities to synchronize global commerce, company executives said. It is doing so by streamlining its domestic operations, extending the reach of its highly integrated international network and expanding its capability to manage complex supply chains. Earnings in 2004 should grow between 12-to-18%. By 2007, when UPS celebrates its 100th anniversary, all three of its operating segments should be delivering profit margins over 15%, said UPS Chief Financial Officer Scott Davis.

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UPS teams up with US Postal’s Parcel Select

Posted by | Oct 30, 2003 | |

United Parcel Service is to introduce a customised service combining its ground delivery service with the US Postal Service’s Parcel Select.

UPS will use Parcel Select for deliveries up to five pounds, primarily to rural or super-rural areas. After moving these packages through its ground network, UPS will identify those for delivery to the rural areas and hand them over to the local post office for final delivery.

Industry insiders have suggested that FedEx might announce a similar partnership soon.

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UK Royal Mail postal strikes disrupt big business customers

Posted by | Oct 30, 2003 | |

Wildcat postal strikes in London could hardly have come at a worse time as far as the Royal Mail’s relationship with its biggest business customers is concerned.

While most companies put up with the second disruption in less than a month, British Gas took matters into its own hands by announcing a £10 discount for customers who chose to receive bills via e-mail.

As one of the largest mailers in the country, sending 80m letters a year, the power company’s decision threatens a vital revenue source for the cash-strapped Royal Mail. More importantly, it heralds a growing trend.

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UK Royal Mail strike threatens to spread nationally

Posted by | Oct 30, 2003 | |

The prospect of a national postal strike grew as wildcat action spread across the south-east and Royal Mail remained locked in emergency talks with the Communication Workers’ Union.

The unofficial strike, which started in west London last week and soon spread to most areas of the capital, meant 17,000 out of London’s 28,000 postal workers stayed away from work, according to Royal Mail. They were joined by staff in Oxford, Maidstone, Chelmsford and Southend, and CWU members suggested walkouts were also brewing in Slough and Birmingham.

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USPS, UPS plan rural offering

Posted by | Oct 29, 2003 | |

United Parcel Service will offer a customized service that combines its ground delivery service with the U.S. Postal Service’s Parcel Select, possibly resulting in lower rates for mailers using UPS.
UPS will use Parcel Select for deliveries up to five pounds, primarily to rural or super-rural areas. Customers will give their packages to UPS, which will move them through its ground network. UPS will separate out the packages that are to be delivered to the rural areas and turn them over to the local post office for final delivery.

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