Tag: FedEx

Shippers prepare for the seasonal rush of packages

Posted by | Nov 27, 2006 | |

UPS plans to ramp up its Inland Empire operations for the shopping season.

The package shipper will hire 900 additional workers for its San Bernardino, Ontario, Riverside, Temecula, Barstow, Blythe, Victorville and Yucca Valley operations, UPS spokeswoman Page Dossey said.

DHL will deliver more than 2 million packages on its peak day in the United States, Dec. 20.

DHL hired hundreds of part-time package handlers to help meet the holiday demand, said John Cameron, DHL USA executive vice president of operations, in a Nov. 21 release. DHL added 300 daily truck routes and 63 new domestic flights a week to its regular network schedules for the holiday rush.

DHL employs 300 people at its 262,000 square-foot, USD70 million West Coast distribution center located at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside.

FedEx will extend employee hours to meet the holiday package delivery demand, spokesman Matt Ceniceros said in a previous interview.

FedEx likely will hire a small number of temporary package handlers for its ground operations to meet the holiday demand, he said.

Headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., FedEx employs more than 260,000 people.

FedEx will handle 9.8 million packages on Dec. 18. That will be the most packages FedEx has handled on a single day since it was founded in 1973.

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DHL mulls pricing review

Posted by | Nov 21, 2006 | |

DHL Express said it is reviewing its pricing policies for the next two years.

This, after rivals United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) and FedEx Corp. have announced plans to increase their respective rates for package delivery service. Starting Jan. 1, 2007, UPS and FedEx express delivery unit FedEx Express will increase service rates by 4.9% and 3.5%, respectively for US customers.

For the local market, however, representatives from UPS and FedEx said the actual timeline and amount of service rate increase for the Philippine market are currently being prepared.

“As all businessmen must, DHL will periodically increase rates to reflect rising costs of operations as well as investment,” DHL Express Philippines country manager Lawrence Llamzon told BusinessWorld.

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TNT strengthens foothold in RI's express delivery market

Posted by | Nov 20, 2006 | |

Urip Hudiono, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta

TNT is one of the world’s largest express delivery and logistics services, competing against DHL, UPS and Federal Express.

Established in Australia, the now Netherlands-based company has been operating in Indonesia since 1979. It has been expanding its network in Indonesia since last year and provides special delivery services for its customers. The Jakarta Post spoke to TNT country general manager Peter Langley.

Question: What is Indonesia’s express delivery and logistics services market like?”

Answer: We’re in markets all around the world, some of the markets are growing, and some of the other markets are growing even much more.

And we look at places like China, Vietnam and Indonesia. They’re places we need to be, because we know those markets are growing very quickly, for import, export and domestically.

We want to be here, and we want to grow our infrastructure. Indonesia is a very important platform as part of our the global network.

Indonesia also has a very big market for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). I come from 10 years in the express delivery business in Australia, and the SME business is very big there, and I come here, and it’s even bigger.

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Cargo jets carry some risks along with shipments – Group boosts effort to educate senders about unsafe packages

Posted by | Nov 20, 2006 | |

A woman walked into Bruce Bernstein’s Pompano Beach, Fla., parcel shipping store with a box that she said had to arrive before July 4th. Inside were 28 pounds of fireworks, bottle rockets and illegal, high-powered firecrackers known as M-80s.

“It would have taken down a plane no problem,” says Bernstein, recalling an incident from two summers ago that underscores the difficulties private shippers have with keeping hazardous materials off planes.

The Associated Mail and Parcel Centers, which represents over 3,000 small shipping centers, estimates that each year thousands of packages like this one slip unnoticed onto planes all over the USA. The leading industry trade group and the government have stepped up efforts to educate the public about shipping flammable goods.

The rapid growth in shipments has made it increasingly difficult to police what goes into packages that crisscross the nation, the association says. Its members are small stores that pack items and funnel packages to the large shipping companies. They handle 29 million packages a year.

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Delivering on time the key to success

Posted by | Nov 15, 2006 | |

Qualifications needed:

When I took the job I had no courier experience and FedEx gave me all the training I needed. I got new hire initiation, safety initiation, courier training, and defensive driving training courses.

Whizzing around the city as a courier often means going the extra mile to ensure packages arrive at their destination

What are the career prospects?

Who knows what the future may hold but I have the opportunity to move into management, change fields into customs clearance or operational support. I also have the opportunity to support Pacific Island operations from here in Auckland. We have access to development and training programmes as well as tuition reimbursements and over 500 e-learning courses on the FedEx intranet to help me in any direction I wish to take.

Describe your job.

I deliver and pick up documents and packages. Each day brings something new _ different delivery or pick up addresses, different types of customers. I also enjoy the day to day contact with my customers.

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