Seven good years of postal service productivity
Seven good years of postal service productivity
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Velocity Systems Adds St. Louis & Kansas City MO as Franchise Markets
Velocity Express Corporation, the nation’s largest provider of time definite regional delivery solutions, announced today that its subsidiary, Velocity Systems Franchising Corporation (VSFC), has signed an agreement with Delivery Logistics Inc. to become a Velocity Express franchisee in St. Louis and Kansas City, MO.
“By partnering with Jim Pepper and his company Delivery Logistics Inc, we can now provide branded Velocity Express services in St. Louis and Kansas City, thus creating a significant competitive advantage for our Company and providing our customers with new alternatives in two key Midwest markets. We are pleased to have Jim and his team at Delivery Logistics as a Velocity licensee,” stated Stuart Hyden, Senior Vice President of Franchising Operations.
Delivery Logistics President & CEO Jim Pepper commented: “The Velocity vision is clearly cutting edge and forward thinking with the engineering and introduction of franchise partnerships to time sensitive parcel and courier logistics. In my 25 years experience in the industry I have never been as excited to build a relationship as I am today with Velocity. When it comes to technology, efficiency, service and rate containment, it would certainly appear that Velocity has the market cornered.”
About Velocity Express
Velocity Express has one of the largest time definite nationwide delivery networks, providing a national footprint for customers desiring same day service throughout the United States. The Company’s services are supported by a customer-focused technology infrastructure, providing customers with the reliability and information they need to manage their transportation and logistics systems, including a proprietary package tracking system that enables customers to view the status of any package via a flexible web reporting system.
Read MoreUPS names new District Executive
Mike Horman, a 22-year veteran of UPS will become Director of Sales for the UPS Central Florida District. In his new role, Horman will direct all sales and marketing activities in a large part of central Florida stretching from Orlando to Tampa.
Horman, who will be based in Orlando, most recently served as director of sales in UPS’s Prairie Mountain District covering Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana. He began his UPS career in 1985 as a loader and part-time package handler in the Indiana District. He then moved through a series of jobs with increasing responsibility in sales and marketing.
Read MoreMicrosoft Technology Innovation Helps Bring Postal Industry Into the Electronic Age
How do you send physical mail to a business person whose most frequent address is at 37,000 feet? That may sound like a riddle, but to Earth Class Mail Corp., it’s a serious question.
This week at POST-EXPO 2007 — an international postal technology conference held in Barcelona, Spain — new and innovative offerings are being showcased that address this question. Earth Class Mail’s solution is a Web-based software system, developed on Microsoft .NET, that seeks to do for postal mail what cellular technology did for telephone calls: make it mobile by making it digital.
Earth Class Mail’s software is a compelling example of the kind of innovation Microsoft champions through a postal vertical industry team within its public-sector organization. Focused on meeting the needs of the worldwide postal industry, this team aims to apply Microsoft’s solutions, technologies and global partner network to help postal service providers and organizations gain new efficiencies and business opportunities in the Internet era.
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