June 7, 2001 — “Saturday Delivery. Who Provides It? Who Needs It? A Case for Alternative Delivery Strategies,” by John Haldi, Haldi Associates, and John Schmidt, Pitney Bowes, was presented at the Ninth Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, Sorrento, Italy.
Read MoreThe Italian and French post offices have signed a cooperation agreement involving joint handling of express courier traffic, Poste Italiane managing director Corrado Passera told a news conference on Thursday. With immediate effect, La Poste’s Italy-bound express courier traffic will be handled in Italy by Poste Italiane’s wholly controlled express courier subsidiary SDA
Read MoreDALLAS–(BUS1NESS WLRE)–June 7, 2001–UPS (NYSE:UPS –
news) today announced that beginning this week, the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex area will become the second market nationwide to receive a new presort service that helps customers better manage their mail.
Atlanta was the first market to test the new service, which is designed for small- and medium-sized mailers that do not typically qualify for postal discounts on first-class mail.
Read MoreUSPS to fade away?
People are turning to e-mail, faxes and the Internet to conduct business, pay bills and keep in touch. That’s not good for the U.S. Postal Service, which is facing a USD 2 to USD 3 billion deficit this year and a drop in volume of first-class mail. So how is the 225-year-old independent government agency competing in the electronic age?
Air forwarders received “some conflicting messages” from officials at American Airlines and United Airlines regarding the carriers’ relationship with Integres, a newly-formed air forwarding joint venture, and whether the carriers would give preference to the new company.
Read MoreDPD Deutscher Paket Dienst GmbH & Co, in which French La Poste has a 85% holding, plans to merge the Swiss companies DPD Ost and DPD West into DPD Switzerland AG. The latter will be controlled by Geneva-based GeoPost Switzerland S.A. DPD Switzerland aims to invest around SFr 20mn in Switzerland in order to benefit from the lucrative parcel delivery business.
Read MoreThe government going to convert Pakistan Post Office Department into Postal Corporation within a span of one year.
Read MoreThe Turnaround of Poste Italiane,” by Corrado Passera, CEO, Poste Italiane SpA, was presented at the Ninth Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, Sorrento, Italy
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