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Track packages with your Blackberry

Posted by | Feb 22, 2007 | |

TrakPak allows you to track packages right on your BlackBerry, from four major shippers: UPS, USPS, FedEx, and DHL. Simply enter your tracking number, select the shipper and away you go. TrakPak will lookup the tracking information and display it on your screen.

You can also enter a short description of each tracking number for easy recall. The description will be displayed in the Tracking List in lieu of the tracking number.

If you make a mistake you can edit your tracking number, shipper or description at anytime. You can also save the tracking information for later viewing when you might be out of wireless coverage.

TrakPak will store up to 100 tracking numbers at a time. You can delete unused tracking numbers at anytime.

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Mail start-up iq letternet targets 100 million letters in 2007

Posted by | Feb 19, 2007 | |

A new postal operator, iq letternet, aims to become one of the three leading postal operators in Germany competing with Deutsche Post. The privately-owned company is currently setting up a nationwide network of delivery partners and will use UPS for intra-regional linehaul transport.

Based near Düsseldorf, iq letternet plans to despatch 100 million letters this year which would establish it among the three leading postal operators in Germany in terms of volumes. “Each of our private delivery partners will receive more than 10,000 letters a day on average from iq letternet by the end of this year,” said Rainer Pliska, one of the three managing directors of the company.

The six companies that own iq letternet, which include several direct mailing firms, handle about 170 million letters from customers such as the German airline LTU, the Galeria Kaufhof department store chain and allkauf supermarket group.

Volumes are presently delivered mostly by some 60 regional postal delivery firms and the rest by Deutsche Post. Volumes will be gradually transferred to the new delivery network, with about 30 million pieces planned for this year, to ensure that quality levels are maintained.

To secure a long-term cooperation with its delivery partners, iq letternet plans to set up a joint stock company in the first half of the year which all its partners can take shares in. Their participation will guarantee the reservation of their delivery area exclusively for themselves. At the same time, special shareholder agreements will ensure that competitors will not be able to enter the network by buying delivery partners.

Iq letternet claimed that it is the only postal operator alongside Deutsche Post in Germany that can receive letters as electronic data, print them centrally or decentrally, and then handle delivery. Letters are handed over pre-sorted to UPS for transport to the respective local postal delivery partner. This process chain halves the usual production and distribution times for a mass mailing. The company is also planning to open a central mail sorting centre in Darmstadt, central Germany.

The company said last autumn that it is aiming for annual revenues of euro 500 million by 2010.

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UPS names Bernhardt Wagner as MD for Southern Europe

Posted by | Feb 19, 2007 | |

Bernhardt Wagner has been named as the UPS Managing Director for Southern Europe and also as country manager for Italy. The former MD James Smith has taken up the position of Mid-South District manager in the USA.

Wagner will be responsible for the strategic development and operational management of UPS in Italy and the Southern European region. Based in Milan he will tasked with reinforcing the company’s presence in these markets. The Southern European Region includes Italy, Switzerland, the Mediterranean, Greece, the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East.

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Schenker expands night express services

Posted by | Feb 16, 2007 | |

Leading German freight transport company Schenker has expanded its specialised night express services. For standard parcel services, the Deutsche Bahn subsidiary cooperates with UPS.

Schenker Germany announced that its “NightPlus” service has grown to some 2.1 million consignments per year. Goods are collected in late afternoon or early evening and delivered by 08:00 the following workday morning, or even by 06:00 or 07:00 if required by customers.

The specialist express service is targeted at customers with urgent items such as spare parts that have to be delivered before the start of the working day. Automotive workshops and repair centres are a key customer group.

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UPS extends NASCAR sponsorship

Posted by | Feb 15, 2007 | |

UPS announced it had signed a new five-year agreement with NASCAR to continue as the official express delivery company of the sport through the 2011 racing season.

The exclusive “Official Delivery Company” partnership extends a highly successful union dating back to UPS’s initial entry into the sport in 2000. As part of the deal, UPS will continue providing its popular Trackside Services to the industry at all NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series races as well as logistics, freight and supply chain services.

Today, UPS serves as the delivery company to approximately 99 percent of the more than 1,000 NASCAR family businesses, race teams, race tracks, NASCAR business units, other NASCAR sponsors and suppliers. That represents a 55% increase in racing customers since UPS entered the sport.

UPS’s decision to extend its relationship with NASCAR follows the company’s decision in 2006 to move its team sponsorship with Dale Jarrett to the new #44 Toyota Camry, which debuts at the Daytona 500 on Feb. 18.
UPS maintains six individual track sponsorships, including Bristol Motor Speedway, California Speedway, Daytona International Speedway, Homestead-Miami Speedway, Richmond International Raceway and Texas Motor Speedway.

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