Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

Peerflix Teams with United States Postal Service to Provide Online DVD Tracking for Nation's Largest DVD Trading Network; Online DVD Tracking, Google Maps(TM) Mash-up and Printed Postage Enhance Peer-to-Peer Experience

Posted by | Jul 24, 2006 | |

Peerflix, the leading peer-to-peer (P2P) network that allows members to legally trade DVDs online, today announced a relationship with the U.S. Postal Service allowing Peerflix members to track the shipping status of their DVDs online. Peerflix members, who trade DVDs directly with one another, will be notified each time a DVD is scanned at a U.S. Postal Service location as it travels to their home, in a pioneer application of U.S. Postal Service technology traditionally leveraged by large businesses. Taking the service one step further, Peerflix added visual tracking capabilities by building a Google Maps mash-up that allows users to follow the journey of their DVD against a map of the U.S. Furthermore, Peerflix announced that postage will be automatically printed on its patent-pending PeerMailer envelopes, eliminating the need for stamps. The result for Internet users is a safe and accountable peer-to-peer network that serves a community trading more than 300,000 DVDs across the U.S. and Canada.

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Courier companies fear losses

Posted by | Jul 23, 2006 | |

The Centre is planning to permit transit of postage below 300 gm in weight only through India Posts.

Courier companies feel this is a `protectionist move’ that will hit their interests Business houses, small traders, are not happy with the Government’s move.

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More orders for transport companies: DPD freight exchange now online

Posted by | Jul 21, 2006 | |

With its online freight exchange DPD now provides transport operators with the chance to generate additional business for themselves. At www.dpd.net/frachtenboerse service providers can now obtain information in a fast and uncomplicated way about the latest requirements for transport services.

At a few clicks of the mouse all the relevant tour information is available for both long-distance and local transport, including the number of stops and parcels involved and the daily number of kilometres to be driven. Transport operators will also be able to apply for contracts directly online. With this new service DPD intends to create more transparency between the individual depots and their partners, so that it will be possible in future to react even more flexibly to the requirements of the market. ”Via this freight exchange the depots can provide information over a wide area on their requirements for additional long-distance and local transport. In addition to greater transparency this will also enable us to work more efficiently“, says Hans Fluri, Chief Executive Officer of DPD GeoPost (Deutschland) GmbH & Co. KG. For the providers of transport services the latest online information could be especially useful during the autumn and pre-Christmas seasons, when high parcel volumes mean that additional tours have to be made.

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Geodis supporting FedEx

Posted by | Jul 21, 2006 | |

The Paris (France)-based transport and logistics group Geodis, which is majority controlled by the French state railway SNCF, has signed a contract with the US-based express service provider FedEx Express. The terms of the agreement stipulate that Geodis collect and deliver consignments for FedEx Express in and around all French cities in which FedEx does not have a direct presence. The contract is valid for a three-year period commencing on 2 January 2007.

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TNT Helps the News Flow at the FT

Posted by | Jul 21, 2006 | |

The mailroom management arm of a business-to-business express delivery giant has scooped a new two-year contract to provide a range of services for one of the most famous newspapers in the world.

TNT Managed Services, a division on TNT Express Specialist Services, has been tasked to provide a full goods in/goods out, portering and mailroom solution at the Financial Times headquarters building at Number One, Southwark Bridge, central London.

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