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FedEx expands in Commerce City

Posted by | Oct 13, 2006 | |

FedEx Freight Corp. will break ground in Commerce City Tuesday on a new service center.

The Memphis company is building a 170,000-square-foot facility that will have 241 doors. FedEx Freight is relocating from its current service center at 5601 Holly St., also in Commerce Center. The current service center has 152 doors and measures 46,000 square feet.

The new facility will be the second-largest service center in the country. The largest, with 277 doors, is in Denver.

FedEx Freight is the less-than-truckload subsidiary of FedEx Corp.

The service center will be in Marty Farms Industrial Park at 96th Avenue. The current service center is at 5601 Holly St.

FedEx Freight accounted for USD 1 billion of FedEx Corp.’s USD 8.5 billion in revenue during the quarter ended Aug. 31, and USD 150 million of its USD 784 million in income.

Groundbreaking takes place at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17. Participants will include Commerce City Mayor Sean Ford; Dennis Beal, vice president, physical assets, FedEx Freight; Adams County commissioners Alice Nichol, W.R. Fischer and Larry Pace; and guests, customers and employees.

The new service center is expected to open in November 2007.

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Underused mailboxes disappearing, thanks to rising Internet use

Posted by | Oct 12, 2006 | |

Like the phone booth before it, the blue street-corner mailbox is rapidly becoming a casualty of the digital age.

As more people send e-mails and pay bills online, the decline in first-class mail is forcing the U.S. Postal Service to remove tens of thousands of underused mailboxes from city streets. Since 1999, the Postal Service has removed more than 42,000 collection boxes. As of last year, about 295,000 mailboxes remained in use.

Along with mailboxes, the Postal Service is facing a drop in jobs. In the past five years it has reduced staff through attrition by more than 80,000 employees. The current postal workforce stands at about 700,000.

The Postal Service’s 2007 budget accounts for an expected reduction of about 3 billion pieces of first-class mail from 2006 levels. Last year, about 98 billion pieces of first-class mail were delivered.

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UPS pushes envelope on downtown service

Posted by | Oct 12, 2006 | |

Starting late last month, UPS began cutting nearly one hour off its morning delivery time for overnight mail guaranteed to arrive in downtown Cleveland by 10:30 a.m.

So instead of an average arrival time of 9:45 a.m., packages delivered by UPS are being signed for, on average, at 8:50 a.m., said Tom Nolte, director of sales for the Northern Ohio district of UPS.

The expedited delivery targets three downtown ZIP codes and comes with no additional guarantee, but with no additional cost either. It’s the first such initiative throughout the UPS system, Nolte said, and it’s designed to capture more office business from places like banks, law firms and insurance companies that rely heavily on overnight correspondence.

If it works in Cleveland, it could be rolled out in other cities. UPS has added 13 part-time delivery personnel and redeployed six of its signature brown trucks to allow for earlier deliveries. But the process really begins at company hubs in Louisville, Ky., and Rockford, Ill., where packages destined for downtown Cleveland are sorted and packed inside igloo-shaped containers that conform to the insides of UPS cargo planes.

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U.S. Postal Service extends managed services pact with Verizon Business

Posted by | Oct 9, 2006 | |

Verizon Business, a leading communications provider to the federal government, announced today that it has been awarded a two-year extension of its existing Managed Network Services contract with the United States Postal Service.

The agreement extends the current contract — which was due to expire on March 23, 2008 — through March 23, 2010. The agreement also includes two one- year extension options, through 2012.

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