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Canada Post will provide free delivery of letters to deployed troops in Afghanistan and elsewhere overseas

Posted by | Aug 30, 2007 | |

Canada Post announced today it will begin providing free delivery of letters from family and friends to Canadian troops deployed in Afghanistan and elsewhere overseas effective October 26, 2007 until the start of 2009. At that time, Canada Post and the Department of National Defence will jointly evaluate the program.
Canada Post also announced it will again provide free parcel service for family and friends of deployed Canadian troops for the coming 2007 holiday season. The program, which will run from October 26, 2007 to January 11, 2008, means Canada Post will deliver parcels free of charge to Canadian troops in Afghanistan and elsewhere overseas. At the end of this period, Canada Post and the Department of National Defence will jointly evaluate the program, as was the case last year with the parcel delivery program.
With capacity limitations on military aircraft carrying supplies and munitions to deployed forces, this offer is restricted to family and friends of the deployed service men and women serving overseas in war zones. That includes members of the Canadian Forces serving in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sinai and Jerusalem. Troops serving on any of the deployed Her Majesty’s Canadian Ships are also included in the offer.
To ensure the proper customs declaration form and addressing information, the letters and parcels will need to be deposited at one of Canada Post’s more than 6,600 full service retail outlets across the country (letters and packages dropped in regular street letter boxes will not qualify). They will then be forwarded to Canadian Forces Bases in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Victoria, British Columbia and Belleville, Ontario. Once delivered to the military bases, the Department of National Defence will take charge of the letters and parcels and ensure their delivery overseas. All mail must be addressed to a specific soldier, including rank and mission information.

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Mobile libraries could offer postal services in the UK

Posted by | Aug 30, 2007 | |

Mobile libraries could be used to supply postal services in Norfolk it emerged last night – as a campaign got under way to fight more damaging cuts to the post office network.

County councillors are to lobby ministers against cuts earmarked for next year, amid fears that between 40 and 60 post offices could be closed and the network reduced to 200.

County Hall is keen to sign up MPs to its campaign to fight a further 17pc cut in the network, unveiled as part of the governments’ “Network Change Programme” in May.

In Norfolk between 1999 and 2005, the number of post offices fell from 354 to 275.

Jon Clemo, development team manager at Norfolk Rural Community Council, which is working with the authority, said using council buildings was part of an approach to create ‘hubs’ and a number of approaches were being developed in the county including a community run shop, in Mileham, near Dereham, a post office in a church, at Newton Flotman, and a satellite post office operating from a kitchen hatch at the village hall at Garveston, near Dereham.

“Its’ vital that people in rural areas maintain access to these services, particularly the most vulnerable members of society,” he said. “There are a number of different ways of delivering that and making use of existing community facilities is a fantastic way of doing this.”

Mobile libraries are definitely an option and we are working with the county council on a project.”

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Postcomm agrees to Royal Mail stopping Sunday collections

Posted by | Aug 29, 2007 | |

Postcomm has published its agreement to Royal Mail’s request to stop collecting post from post boxes and businesses on Sundays and Bank Holidays. The document is available here.

The agreement is subject to several customer safeguards which Postwatch suggested, and which have been agreed by Royal Mail:

– Royal Mail will communicate the changes to customers, through placing notices on postboxes and at Crown post offices where Sunday/bank holidays collections take place, as well as contacting the 50 businesses that currently receive a tailored Sunday collection service.

– Collection plate information will be amended.

– Post boxes in areas of high usage will be monitored and emptied if there is a risk of overflowing.

Postwatch accepts that some customers will be inconvenienced by the change. However, given the low volumes of Sunday collections and the relatively high cost of the service, on balance, we believe this move is justified, insofar as it will help reduce Royal Mail’s costs and ensure the universal service continues to be delivered at an affordable price.

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FedEx adds new flights between Memphis (US) and Manchester (UK)

Posted by | Aug 28, 2007 | |

FedEx Express, the cargo airline of FedEx Corp., is launching new direct flights between its headquarters in Memphis and Manchester, England.

An MD-11 flight originating at the shipping giant’s hub in Paris will stop in Manchester each day Monday to Thursday before flying to Tennessee.

The flights will increase the company’s daily capacity between the U.S. and U.K. by up to 50 percent and between Europe and the U.S. by 20 percent, FedEx announced Tuesday.

“Manchester is the fastest-growing region in the U.K., which has led to increased market demand for reliable, time-definite express transportation services,” said Robert W. Elliott, president, FedEx Express, Europe, Middle East, Indian subcontinent and Africa.

The airline already operates two express freighters from Stansted in southeastern England to Newark, New Jersey, and Memphis. The new flight is expected to increase next-day service and allow later pickup times for northern Britain.

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UPS Celebrates it's 100-Year Anniversary

Posted by | Aug 28, 2007 | |

UPS Inc. celebrates it’s 100-year anniversary later this month, it now is the world’s largest shipping carrier – a USD 47 billion business with a fleet of trucks, an airline and operations in 200 countries.

Increasing competition for delivery of goods has meant the company has had to broaden its global reach and expand its business beyond small package delivery to shipping heavy freight and providing logistics services for companies.

But even as the Internet has made it easier to send, receive or download items electronically instead of paying a service to deliver them, the breaking down of trade barriers has given shippers like UPS overseas opportunities they haven’t had in the past.
the global economy.

These days, the U.S. small package delivery market has slowed along with the economy. As a result, UPS has been increasingly looking beyond U.S. borders for business, offering faster delivery to worldwide destinations. International growth has helped the company’s bottom line.

Last month, UPS reported a 4.1 percent rise in second-quarter earnings on a modest increase in sales. The company’s shares, on an adjusted basis, are up more than 14 percent over the last year.

A century from now, Chief Executive Mike Eskew expects that delivering small packages will still be an important part of the Atlanta-based company’s business, but he isn’t sure it will be the largest part. In 2001, the company expanded its services by acquiring the Mail Boxes Etc. chain. Most of the stores were later renamed The UPS Store.

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