Sepomex will propose legislative changes.
Sepomex wants political parties and the judiciary to pay for postal services. It seeks to guarantee universal service and increase management autonomy.
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FedEx Express maintains status as market leader
FedEx Express maintained its status as the undisputed market leader in the express services air export market, claiming 37.5% of the market in 2000, according to The Colography Group. FedEx grew its air export traffic by 12.1% in that year. United Parcel Service increased its air export traffic in 2000 from the previous year by 8.5%, giving it 12.5% of the market.
Read MoreI Ran the Postal Service; it Should be Privatized – Henderson
William J. Henderson, the former U.S. Postmaster General, in an article that appeared in the Washington Post: “As the postmaster general until I retired three months ago, I oversaw the negotiation of the FedEx deal. And I continue to see it as an innovative solution for a Postal Service struggling to remain competitive under market conditions that have changed strikingly over the past decade. But such alliances with private business don’t go nearly far enough. What the Postal Service needs now is nothing short of privatization.”
Read MoreDo recent parcel carrier options deliver?(FedEx, United Parcel Service, Parcel Select)(Statistical Data Included)
After years of being held hostage by United Parcel Service’s virtual monopoly on package delivery, shippers are looking to several relatively new competitors for rescue. But while Federal Express’s FedEx Home Delivery ground service and the U.S. Postal Service’s Parcel Select are options, UPS still retains supremacy.
To be sure, UPS’s stranglehold on the standard parcel delivery catalog market has loosened during the past five years. Credit–or blame–goes primarily to its annual rate increases, which have averaged 4%-5%. Among the mailers participating in CATALOG AGE’s 2001 Benchmark Report on Operations (see the March 15 issue), UPS was the standard-delivery shipper of choice for 50%. But 78% of the respondents to the survey five years earlier had named UPS their primary carrier.
Read MoreIntegrating physical mail with the digital world : Lockheed Martin unit uses technology to channel information about mail to the right personnel.(Lockheed Martin system integrations distribution technologies business unit.)(Interview)
In the modern world, the easiest and most convenient way to send a message is via e-mail or through sophisticated data networks. Does that portend an end to physical mail, an event that has been predicted for two decades? Not quite.
Despite the quantum leap in technology during the past decade, corporations, universities and government agencies still send, receive and process millions of pieces of traditional, expedited and packaged mail annually. In many mailrooms, manual labor and considerable resources are utilized to process parcels.
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