Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

Package-laden FedEx truck burns

Posted by | Jul 11, 2007 | |

Hundreds of packages shipped via FedEx were damaged in a truck fire on the Gulf Freeway near Reveille early Wednesday morning.

Whether any customers lost irreplaceable items was unknown, but FedEx’s package-tracking system allows the company to notify every shipper of the incident, said David Westrick, a spokesman for the ground transportation division of FedEx. That process began Wednesday morning, he said.

The trailer burned about 2:30 a.m. when traveling from a Dallas FedEx ground hub to Houston, Westrick said. How many of the 800 packages on board were damaged or destroyed was unknown Wednesday, Westrick said.

FedEx plans to expedite loss claims related to the fire, Westrick said. The cause of the fire is being investigated.

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TNT uses strikes to put pressure on Royal Mail

Posted by | Jul 11, 2007 | |

TNT said the wave of industrial action hitting Royal Mail underlined the need for it to develop a full-blown rival service.

The Dutch-owned company, which uses Royal Mail to provide “final mile” postal delivery, said its customers were suffering disruption from the action by the union but it would not be suing the Post Office because it accepted that the state-owned group was protected by “force majored” contractual clauses.

TNT is the only company known to have been developing concrete plans to launch a complete rival service including the use of its own postal delivery staff. Its British boss, Nick Wells, said the impetus to proceed with such a project was higher than ever.
TNT has been undertaking full-scale trials of next day door-to-door deliveries in Glasgow and Manchester although the vast bulk of its daily mail is distributed to homes through Royal Mail under the specially licensed “final mile” system used by several private operators.

TNT’s group chief executive, Peter Bakker, said recently that Britain was one of its most important markets, showing healthy growth. The company is distributing more than 1 billion items of mail a year in the UK and many customers have migrated from Royal Mail, including telecoms group BT, which recently signed a contract worth up to £ 90m.

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Senator McHugh bill would stop mail-order cigarettes at USPS

Posted by | Jul 11, 2007 | |

Rep. John McHugh has again introduced legislation that would outlaw the mailing of tobacco products through the US Postal Service.

If passed, the bill, H.R. 2932, would amend Title 39 of the United States Code, restricting the USPS from delivering certain tobacco products. The bill provides that cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and roll-your-own-tobacco are nonmailable matter, would not be carried or delivered by mail and would be disposed of as the Postal Service directs. It also imposes a penalty of USD 100,000 for each violation.

All three major shipping companies — DHL, FedEx and UPS — have stopped shipping cigarettes nationwide and, as a result, all Internet tobacco vendors are using the USPS to make their deliveries. In addition, in January 2006, Philip Morris USA reached an agreement with a coalition of 37 attorneys general aimed at combating the sale of the company’s cigarettes over the Internet and through the mail. And, in March 2005, the attorneys general also announced that the major credit card companies had all agreed to stop processing credit card payments for the Internet retailers.

Matt Lavoie, press secretary to McHugh, said that McHugh had planned to attach the bill to postal reform legislation that was passed last year during conference negotiations but was unable to because a conference never took place. As a result, the bill never passed.

Other senators have introduced similar bills over the years, but they also never passed.

The USPS has said it has continued to ship cigarettes because, under postal law, packages are sealed against inspection unless there is probable cause.

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DHL launches new service in south Texas

Posted by | Jul 11, 2007 | |

DHL announced it has introduced a new service in Harlingen, Texas, capable of handling triple the volume of its previous offering as well as heavier palletized freight and non-conveyable material to meet the growing needs of customers shipping into and out of the Rio Grande Valley and Northern Mexico regions.

Located at the southern tip of Texas, Harlingen is a crossroads of international commerce, offering the most efficient route to the Mexican border cities of Matamoros and Reynosa as well as the industrial city of Monterrey, via the Free Trade Bridge. The Free Trade Bridge is one of the largest and most modern ports of entry in South Texas with a full U.S. customs inspection facility that can accommodate up to 75 trucks simultaneously. DHL’s new Harlingen service will directly benefit the surrounding region’s major “maquiladora” industries, including electronics, automotive parts and medical devices.

The Harlingen service upgrade comes less than a month after DHL announced the opening of its Hermosillo, Mexico, gateway to meet the increasing demand from customers shipping across the U.S.-Mexico border from Northwest Mexico. These investments are part of DHL’s North America Trade Lane initiative, which was launched in November 2006 to increase the speed and efficiency of cross-border shipments across North America.

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FedEx Kinko's Fueling Expansion in China

Posted by | Jul 11, 2007 | |

FedEx Kinko’s, the world’s leading provider of document solutions and business services, opened a store in eastern China’s booming coastal city Shanghai soon after it established its flagship store in the country’s capital Beijing, said local media.

The new store, located on Nanjing Road, one of the busiest commercial areas of Shanghai, will provide 24-hour-long high-quality express and printing services to both individuals and business customers. Besides ordinary business and print services, the company will handle international express shipping services.

FedEx Kinko’s, founded in 1970 and purchased by FedEx Corp. in February 2004, has opened more than 1600 stores in 11 countries worldwide.

The company, which entered into China as early as 1997, has opened 15 stores in key Chinese cities such as Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Shanghai.

FedEx Corp., the world’s leading provider of document solutions and business services, wins its long-standing reputation in the world for its fast-speed and efficient services.

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