Tag: Canada

UPS Canada helps expand largest global Green Fleet

Posted by | Feb 27, 2008 | |

PS Canada announced it will be rolling out 139 additional cleaner-burning, propane delivery trucks. The majority of these vehicles will be deployed in Quebec, Ontario and Alberta and the rest distributed between British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

The propane vehicles are joining roughly 600 propane trucks already operating in Canada. The addition of these vehicles means more than a third of UPS Canada’s 2,000 package delivery vehicles will run on low-carbon fuel.

The 139 new propane trucks are expected to reduce UPS’s carbon dioxide emissions by a total of 254 metric tonnes per year, the equivalent weight of 80 UPS trucks. This would be a 35 per cent improvement compared to conventional gas engines. Additionally, particulate matter emitted from vehicles will be virtually eliminated.

The newly added propane-powered vehicles feature the latest technology in clean-burning propane engines. Propane vehicles emit about one-third fewer reactive organic gases than gasoline-fuelled vehicles. Nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide emissions are 20 per cent and 60 per cent less, respectively, than conventional vehicles.

UPS’s global alternative-fuel fleet now stands at 1,629 vehicles – the largest such private fleet in the transportation industry – and includes compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, propane and electric and hybrid electric vehicles. UPS is also working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on a hydraulic hybrid delivery vehicle.

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Canada Post Launches Customized Postal Indicia

Posted by | Feb 26, 2008 | |

In response to its business customers’ demand for opportunities to differentiate their LettermailTM from their competitors, Canada Post has launched Customized Postal Indicia. The innovative service allows businesses to design a ‘stamp-like’ postage indicia, with an image of their choice, printed onto envelopes.

“Our business customers have expressed continued interest in picture postage, which indicated a market for a customized postal indicia for commercial customers,” said Alice Lafferty, Director of Product Development at Canada Post.

Customized Postal Indicia provides a number of benefits to the business customer including:

– an additional branding medium and unique finishing touch which can increase the likelihood of customers identifying, opening and reading Lettermail

– opportunity to leverage significant real estate on the envelope, twice the size of a traditional stamp, for marketing and branding

– An opportunity to communicate with customers before they even open the envelope – Special events can be highlighted, including launches and announcements, and key audiences can be recognized, including preferred and loyal customers

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Quebecor World Logistics First in Industry to Run Mixed Class Co-Mail to Help Customers Reduce Postal Costs

Posted by | Feb 13, 2008 | |

Quebecor World Logistics is the first in the industry to offer its customers mixed-class co-mail that combines Periodical and Standard class mail pieces into a single offline co-mail offering. This gives our customers improved flexibility of a pool but also the industry’s quickest turn-around time, unattainable in a single class co-mail run. The mixed-class, short-run pool conducted at Quebecor World Logistics’ Bolingbrook, IL co-mail facility will now become part of QWL’s superior co-mail process, creating enhanced value to Quebecor World’s quality print product.

Customers using Quebecor World Logistics’ mixed class co-mail solutions in combination with additional mailing optimization programs are able to realize savings on their overall mailing costs while improving delivery times.

In May of 2007, Quebecor World announced the expansion of its co-mail platform into the Northeast with two new 30-pocket machines. In addition, QWL entered into an exclusive two-year purchase agreement with SIM Products Co. for two 30-pocket co-mail machines and secured the option to purchase the next four machines produced by SIM.

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Latest ‘Future of Mail’ paper: “Mail Trends Update” by Fouad Nader (Adrenale Corp.) and Michael Lintell (Pitney Bowes)

Posted by | Feb 1, 2008 | |

In recent years there has been an increase in the number of press articles and statements from posts predicting that mail volumes would decline. New technologies and process innovations have been introduced, preoccupying researchers and managers in the postal and mailing industries with the impact of accelerating electronic substitution and changing customer behaviors. What are the actual trends that emerge from examining in detail the best information available from key countries? What historical perspectives, trends and emerging patterns may be useful in understanding how mail volumes may evolve in the future? The purpose of this paper is to provide further insight into the key trends identified and discussed in the previous Mail Trends Analyses by comprehensively examining the evolution of mail and analyzing postal volumes along key variables that influence mail demand. This paper builds on the considerable research that followed the original mail trends analysis and was documented in the Background Papers published at www.postinsight.pb.com for the project: “Electronic Substitution for Mail: Models and Results, Myth and Reality.” The paper also takes advantage of recent work in the study of the “Future of Mail”, also on postinsight.pb.com.

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Little known Canada Post program to prevent junk mail from arriving finally gets promoted

Posted by | Feb 1, 2008 | |

When you get home, do you pick up the stack of junk mail in your mail box and throw it right into the recycling bin?

Most of us do. And many of us wish they wouldn’t send us this stuff.

But very few of us knew that Canada Post has had a program in place for the past 10 years that allows Canadians to notify the post office that they do not want junk mail delivered to them. The Straight’s Sindy Zelezen heard about the program on the CBC.

A Vancouver businesswoman is now promoting it out of her own company’s funds and has started the Red Dot Campaign Web site.

Whether you’re irritated at having to deal with junk mail, or you want to save the environment, or both, just follow the simple instructions and you can stop the endless flow of junk mail.

Talk about stopping the insanity!

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