DHL, the Deutsche Post World Net parcel service, is launching a special price campaign for senders of private parcels. 23.5 million households will be receiving a voucher for the new sheet of three Freeway parcel stamps. Customers can use these stamps to send three parcels for the price of two. Freeway parcel stamps are purchased in advance, just like regular stamps.
Read MoreOpinions vary on the London congestion charge, a year old last week. Communters and the national media have been generaly supportive, won over by reduced traffic levels and better publich transport. But retailers have suffered, and the hauliers who fuel the capitals economy have given the scheme, now likely to be widened, a firm thumbs-down.
Read MoreFedEx is struggling to keep its Russian operations afloat after moving airports and replacing its longtime local agent in December — just days before a sweeping new customs regime came into force. In a snarl-up that has yet to be fully unwound, thousands of FedEx packages became marooned at Domodedovo Airport, calling into question the company’s membership in the “Big Four” club of express delivery providers in Russia, while simultaneously opening the door to upstart domestic companies. Express delivery companies are notoriously tight-lipped about the financial side of their operations, and there is little independent research about their activities that can be considered authoritative, making it difficult to gauge turnover and trends. But by most accounts, the industry has grown between 25 percent and 40 percent per year over the last three years, and just four Western companies — Dutch TNT, Brussels-based DHL and American UPS and FedEx — account for most of the action.
Read MoreJapanese door-to-door parcel delivery firm Yamato Transport Co. plans to launch small-lot mail delivery services for individuals Wednesday in a bid to compete with Japan Post, Japan’s public postal corporation. For the launch of new services, excluding the delivery of personal letters, Yamato Transport has obtained government approval to change contract terms on its existing mail services for large-lot clients, informed sources said Tuesday.
Read MoreDepartment store retailer Saks Incorporated has selected two operating companies of FedEx Corp. as exclusive providers of shipping services for all its divisions.
The agreement will be “multi-modal,” relying on services provided by FedEx Express for domestic, international and express freight deliveries and by FedEx Ground for ground and FedEx Home Delivery services.
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