Tag: North America

UPS starts celebration of 100th birthday in New Orleans

Posted by | Jan 26, 2007 | |

Mike Eskew (Chairman and CEO of UPS) offered public as well as private thanks to employees for embodying the spirit of the company’s founder in quickly restoring service after Hurricane Katrina.
Eskew met with several hundred employees as well as customers and dignitaries here today at the site of UPS’s newly rebuilt New Orleans package hub. The company reinvested USD7.6 million in the facility after it was completely flooded when the levees broke. All told, some 20 package hubs and centers throughout the region suffered damage during Katrina and had to be repaired at a total cost of USD8.3 million.
UPS is celebrating its 100th birthday throughout 2007, primarily through employee events around the world. The celebration in more than 55 U.S. cities will revolve around the arrival of a mobile Centennial exhibit, built inside large tractor-trailers. In New Orleans, Eskew opened the exhibit for the first time and guided employees and customers through the displays.
UPS was founded in Seattle as a messenger service in 1907 by a 19-year-old teenager who borrowed USD100. Over the subsequent 100 years, much of it guided by founder Jim Casey, UPS transformed itself into a department store delivery service; a common carrier offering package delivery service throughout the United States; an international package delivery service with its own airline and now, a trusted business partner that literally enables commerce for its customers by synchronizing the flow of goods, information and money.
Today, UPS employs more than 427,000 people; operates the world’s largest package delivery network; operates the planet’s eighth-largest airline; utilizes almost 92,000 vehicles, and offers an ever-expanding array of supply chain services.

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DHL announce shipping system enhancements

Posted by | Jan 25, 2007 | |

DHL today announced enhancements to its DHL EasyShip family of PC-based shipping solutions. The new upgrades provide customers with a number of value-added features and enhancements, including access to more DHL services, faster installation and setup, and improved rate visibility.
The new upgrades include:

– Improved rate visibility for shipment processing
– Simplified import/export to more easily upload large data files for mass shipping distributions
– Enhancements to increase speed and ease of EasyShip Professional installation
– Option to request DHL signature delivery service
– Addition of expedited DHL@home business-to-residential delivery service

DHL offers several shipping software platforms, including EasyShip Connect, a software solution for smaller-volume shipping customers to use on their own PC; EasyShip Professional, a stand-alone shipping application for a customers’ PC, designed for medium-volume shippers who prefer to process shipments without a constant internet connection; EasyShip Professional Plus, a fully functional PC shipping station provided by DHL for low- to medium-volume customers; and EasyShip Enterprise, a high-performance, server-based shipping system that supports multiple shipping stations.

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Mail handlers union members approve five-year contract

Posted by | Jan 25, 2007 | |

Members of the National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU) have voted to ratify a new five-year contract. The new contract will run through Nov. 20, 2011, and affect approximately 55,000 career U.S. Postal Service employees who are engaged in bulk transfer, loading and unloading of mail.

The agreement provides for the following retroactive and future general wage increases (based on salary in effect on Sept. 2, 2006):

* Effective Nov. 25, 2006 – 1.2 percent increase.
* Effective Nov. 24, 2007 – 1.2 percent increase.
* Effective Feb. 16, 2008 – 0.6 percent increase.
* Effective Nov. 22, 2008 – 1.2 percent increase.
* Effective Nov. 21, 2009 – 1.2 percent increase.
* Effective Nov. 20, 2010 – 1.2 percent increase.

Effective Nov. 25, 2006, a new step (Step P) is added to the top of the Mail Handler pay schedule, and effective Feb. 3, 2007, a new entry step (Step AA) will be added to the beginning of the Mail Handler pay schedule.

The contract also contains continuation of cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) at current levels and a reduction in the Postal Service contribution rate for health insurance by one point during each year of the contract.

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DHL USA announce shipping system enhancements

Posted by | Jan 25, 2007 | |

DHL announced enhancements to its DHL EasyShip family of PC-based shipping solutions. The new upgrades provide customers with a number of value-added features and enhancements, including access to more DHL services, faster installation and setup, and improved rate visibility.

“These enhancements were developed in close collaboration with our shipping customers,” said Keith Lovetro, EVP of Marketing for DHL. “Keeping a close pulse on our customers’ needs help us to continually enhance our systems to fit their specific requirements and grow with the pace of a changing business environment. Our upgrades to DHL EasyShip will improve the DHL customer experience by offering more options and making automated shipping faster and easier,” added Lovetro.

The new upgrades include:
– Improved rate visibility for shipment processing
– Simplified import/export to more easily upload large data files for mass shipping distributions
– Enhancements to increase speed and ease of EasyShip Professional installation
– Option to request DHL signature delivery service
– Addition of expedited DHL@home business-to-residential delivery service.

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U.S. Postal Commission says plans for postal service flawed

Posted by | Jan 23, 2007 | |

The Postal Regulatory Commission has said the U.S. Postal Service’s plans to consolidate are flawed, but it’s unknown if that opinion will carry any weight.

The Postal Regulatory Commission in December released its advisory opinion on the possible consolidation of post offices nationwide. That could include the Aberdeen post office.

The opinion said the postal service’s consolidation plans might not meet goals, such as continuing the current level of service.

“In particular, the record reflects flawed or absent information on certain crucial aspects of the Postal Service’s plan for realignment,” the opinion said.

According to its Web site, the Postal Regulatory Commission reviews the postal service’s changes in rates, services and fees.

“They are involved in anything that might affect our service,” said Teresa Rudkin, a spokeswoman for the postal service.

However, Rudkin said the Postal Regulatory Commission serves an advisory purpose only; it does not have any power over the decisions the postal service makes.

In December 2005, the U.S. Postal Service announced a study at the main post office in Aberdeen. The postal service is trying to determine the effect of moving some mail services from Aberdeen to Huron.

A service review was conducted in April 2006 as a second opinion to the study. It was determined there would be no impact to mail service if mail now processed in Aberdeen was moved to the Dakota Central processing and distribution center in Huron.

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