The Teamsters voted overwhelmingly to strike if contract negotiations fail with United Parcel Service Inc.
Preliminary results show 93 percent of the UPS Teamsters who voted during weekend balloting support a walkout if an agreement is not reached, union spokesman Bret Caldwell said
Read MoreTNT Australia has embarked on a restructuring under new chief executive Roger Corcoran to return the Dutch-owned express freight company to profitability, focus on its core business, and win back market share from rivals such as Toll Holdings and Mayne Group.
Read MoreJapan’s Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications is considering excluding credit cards and certain direct mail from the definition of ‘postal mail,’ a move that would open the way for the entry of private companies into such delivery operations, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported in its Saturday-morning edition, citing government sources.
Read MorePlans to scrap the second post have been shelved until next month at the earliest. Trials at 14 Royal Mail offices across the country were due to start this spring in a effort to slash costs and boost efficiency. But ailing postal group Consignia has been hit by a series of long-running disputes over pay. Now the contentious move, affecting 100,000 customers, has been pushed back until June.
Read MoreThe Swedish post office is to decide on 20 October whether to go ahead with construction of a new 20,000sq metre facility at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport.
The development would connect its domestic and international mail and parcels operations.
Spring, the first-of-its-kind, international mail joint venture of TNT International Mail, Royal Mail and Singapore Post, today announced a unified suite of mailing services designed to make it simpler for customers to select, tailor and implement large-volume mailings around the world. The Spring product suite provides U.S. and Canadian customers with a simple, two-step process and a single, streamlined set of core and complementary services that ease the complexity of sending mail and small parcels to over 200 countries.
Read MorePostal giant Consignia’s new £9.5 million call centre in Stoke-on-Trent is set to go live for calls today. The centre, in Forge Lane, Etruria Valley, which will handle calls from Royal Mail customers, has created 250 jobs initially, although another 200 are expected to follow once the site is operating to its full capacity in September.
Read MoreForwarding of letters and post cards became more expensive on average by 14%. According to the Ministry of anti-monopoly policy, acommon letter, for example, costs now Rbl3,25 and a registered letter- Rbl 5. Theincrease of post tariffs corresponds to the general dynamics of prices for industrial products.
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