Tag: UPS

GPX expands shipping services in major cities

Posted by | Sep 10, 2002 | |

Greyhound PackageXpress (GPX), a division of Greyhound Lines, Inc., is expanding its shipping services with United Parcel Service’s Authorized Shipping Outlets (ASOs) to offer its customers more convenience and additional shipping options such as next day, second day, three day, ground service and international shipping service to more than 200 countries.
“GPX is a reliable and economical alternative for package delivery and the additional services enables us to serve our customers more efficiently,” said Dave Phillips, vice president, GPX. “Our offerings of UPS services is now in nine states with this expansion and we plan to expand the service to all major U.S. markets.”

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Trafficking in Parking Tickets

Posted by | Sep 9, 2002 | |

According to Newsday “the four major package delivery companies – UPS, Federal Express, Airborne Express and DHL – paid nearly $7.3 million in parking tickets in New York City from June 2001 to this past July, according to city records.”

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FedEx and UPS hold fire on surcharge

Posted by | Sep 2, 2002 | |

Transport giant Federal Express will wait until Oct 1 before introducing an additional charge to cover an overtime fee imposed by the Customs Department.
However, its rivals DHL International (Thailand) and TNT Express Worldwide (Thailand) told their customers that they would introduce the surcharge starting yesterday.United Parcel Service (UPS) said it would wait for market reaction before deciding whether to continue absorbing the costs or find an alternative solution.
FedEx said that as a result of delaying the introduction of the surcharge it would have to absorb 30 million baht in additional costs.
The figure was based on a report prepared by the Conference of Asia Pacific Express Carriers (Capec), which claims that its members including FedEx, DHL, UPS and TNT have absorbed overtime costs amounting to one million baht each per day.

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UPS, FedEx in air war with DHL

Posted by | Aug 30, 2002 | |

The nation’s two largest package carriers are trying to keep the world’s largest package carrier out of the country.
United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp. filed separate petitions in August asking the U.S. Department of Transportation to review the ownership of DHL Airways. They suspect that DHL Airways Inc. is violating a federal law that restricts to 25 percent the foreign ownership of airlines operating within the United States.
The companies believe that DHL Airways is owned and controlled by Deutsche Post, the German postal monopoly that is 70 percent owned by the German government, but the ownership is disguised in a complex arrangement of subsidiaries.
“We are talking about the government of Germany competing against private individuals in the United States,” said Norman Black, a spokesman for UPS. “Nothing more. Nothing less.”

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UPS Contract Ratified, Employees Approve Six-Year Deal

Posted by | Aug 29, 2002 | |

As anticipated, UPS (NYSE:UPS) employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have approved by a wide margin the new six-year contract negotiated in July.
According to the union, the agreement was ratified by a margin of better than 70 percent. The new contract, which covers approximately 230,000 UPS employees in the United States, is retroactive to Aug. 1.
“This vote reflects recognition by our employees that this is a fair and balanced agreement that rewards them for their hard work, while allowing the company to remain competitive,” said Mike Eskew, UPS chairman and CEO.
Contract negotiations began in January with an initial exchange of proposals. The company and union then negotiated over the next six months before reaching agreement on July 16, two weeks before the old contract expired. The agreement then was submitted to employees for ratification.

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