The Postal Service started its “day on the Hill” on a bit of a sour note. “Government auditors have just placed the U.S. Postal Service on its ‘high-risk’ list, meaning that among government departments, they are most susceptible to waste, fraud and abuse.
Read MoreApril 5, 2001 — FedEx Corporation has reported that March 2001 U.S. domestic express package volume at FedEx Express is expected to decline 4.4 percent compared to the prior year period, while FedEx International Priority (IP) volume grew at 5 percent and FedEx Ground volume grew at 6 percent.
Read MoreApril 5, 2001 — FedEx Corp. plans to offer qualifying customers an enhanced level of shipment visibility through FedEx InSight(SM), a new Web-based application that dramatically broadens the amount of real-time status information on inbound, outbound or third-party shipments — without having to enter a package-tracking number.
Read MoreA furious Lynx has denied rumours that it is in takeover talks with Federal Express
Read MoreThe State’s post offices are technically insolvent and will quickly
become bankrupt without a change in the way they are funded, a new
report says. Published yesterday by the Minister for Public Enterprise, Ms
O’Rourke, the report says the ‘only real option’ for financing An
Post’s losses is for the State to pay a subvention to the company
The Direct Marketing Association (The DMA)announced today its support of Chairman Dan Burton’s (R-IN) House Government Reform Committee hearing to review the finances and operations of the United States Postal Service (USPS). This hearing is the first step from the new 107th Congress toward, what is hoped will be, a bi-partisan effort in reforming the 31-year-old law that has put a financial straitjacket on the USPS’s ability to compete and survive.
Read MoreGERMANY: PUBLISHER TO INVEST IN MAIL DELIVERY.
Read MoreUSPS mulling end of Saturday deliveries
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