Beck &Call, the company offering a timed home delivery service for retailers and consumers in south- west London, is now handling home deliveries for parcels carrier Amtrak within its operational area. “It’s a difficult area for us in some ways,” Amtrak managing director Jonathan Smith told e.logistics magazine.
Read MoreThe Finnish Post is to launch a new international service with its Global Courier express service. Global Courier will reportedly contain two service levels, with the faster of the two delivering items to the major European business centres by 0830 local time the following morning. The second option is a scheduled express service to over 200 countries that will deliver items to major European cities the next day, while most other destinations will be delivered the second day after shipment.
Read MoreBike Kyubin Co. and three other private courier companies on Tuesday began special mail delivery services designating delivery time. The three others are QCargo Co., Q-Post and Pro Support. The moves follow the creation April 1 of Japan Post to take over mail delivery and postal savings from the governmental Postal Services Agency as part of postal service deregulation.
Read MoreThe trans-Atlantic dispute among the world’s package delivery giants over the ownership of DHL Airways has grown even nastier. FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service have asked the administrative law judge overseeing the case to hold the chief executives of Deutsche Post World Net and DHL International in contempt for refusing to comply with the judge’s order to testify about their relationship with DHL Airways, a U.S.-based cargo airline with approximately 34 aircraft. Deutsche Post and DHL, in turn, have asked the judge to quash the subpoenas ordering Klaus Zumwinkel, chief executive of Deutsche Post, and Uwe Doerken, chief executive of DHL International, to testify.
Read MoreMail, express and logistics company TPG N.V., has commenced the operation of a new Boeing 737-300F aircraft in its TNT Express European air network. It is the first time TNT Airways will be using B737 aircraft as part of its air fleet operations.
Read MorePresident Bush recently named a nine-member commission to study reform of our Postal Service-the first time a U.S. President has done so since the Johnson Administration. Businesses and consumers relying heavily on the mail-concerned about recent rate increases-are hoping for some dramatic changes, but fear they will get only tinkering. Gene Del Polito, president of the Association for Postal Commerce, recently told Catalog Age he expects the commission “is not going to make revolutionary recommendations.” He said the committee seems likely to take a cautious path “that preserves the Postal Service as a federal institution but trims its sails.”
Bolder and braver changes would make far more sense, however. At some point in the not-too-distant future the Postal Service’s structure will have to change dramatically. It can be altered deliberately now, by design, or chaotically down the road, by default. The President’s commission enjoys a rare opportunity; let’s hope its leaders grab their chance.
Read MoreIncreases in the price of stamps and postal services are essential if An Post is to overcome the “choppy waters” it faces in making the company competitive, according to Communications Minister Dermot Ahern. “Obviously the Government wish to keep costs down as much as possible but when you see investment in a structure such as this, you realise a price must be paid. Increases inpostal services haven’t been significant in recent years because An Post have had anincreased turnover due to the economic situation. But we’re going into choppier watersnow so the future will be difficult for companies like An Post,” he said.
Read MoreExpress parcel carrier Parceline has launched desk-to-desk, a new service delivering urgent parcels directly to a named recipient. The launch of this service shows Parceline’s focus on the premium end of the market and, if successful, could be the first step towards more personalized services in the express delivery market. The new desk-to-desk service is available to all Parceline’s Lasernet or EDI customers and ensures the delivery of urgent documents or parcels to a named recipient at a specified location within a particular organization. The idea behind this service is that it will drastically reduce the time it takes office workers to receive parcels by trusting the entire service to Parceline rather than to the internal mail system of the company in question.
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