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Postal Logistics is the first to earn USPS OK to co-palletize

Posted by | Jul 25, 2007 | |

Postal Logistics Services LLC earlier this year became the first company certified by the US Postal Service to co-palletize mailings of Standard mail letter-size pieces in trays received from authorized mail preparers.

Co-palletization consolidates physical bundles of mail from multiple companies and ZIP codes that have already been addressed and presorted onto pallets. These pallets can then be shipped to the USPS’s 454 Sectional Center Facilities, which are processing and distribution centers that serve a designated geographical area defined by one or more three-digit ZIP code prefixes.

When mail is dropped off at one of these facilities, it is closer to the home where it is being delivered to. This process saves the USPS handling costs. As a result, mailers, especially smaller mailers, can receive Sectional Center Facility (SCF) discounts.

“We take those runs — 30,000, 40,000, or 50,000-run mailings — and give them an opportunity to garner some of the postal savings in drop shipments that they don’t have today,” said Tom Taylor, managing partner of Postal Logistics.

“They will also have a quicker in-home date,” Taylor explained. “The average in-home date through a local drop is 14 to 21 days. Through our system, it will be seven to 10 days.”

Co-palletization of mail also generates increased savings by enabling shipments of Standard mail to be assembled on full pallets as opposed to mail sacks, which are more expensive for the USPS to process.

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Tan moving up at DHL Express

Posted by | Jul 25, 2007 | |

Dennis Tan, chief financial officer of DHL Express Singapore, has been appointed senior vice-president and head of global express controlling at DHL Express.

He will report to Oliver Gritz, CFO of DHL Express, and his areas of responsibility include financial reporting and planning, costing and transfer pricing, IT controlling as well as the newly created positions for marketing and sales controlling and ground operations controlling.

Tan has been instrumental in managing and leading various key projects such as the integration of financial reporting systems in the region, as well as the implementation of the new regional business planning software.

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DHL to adjust air operations in Riverside, California

Posted by | Jul 25, 2007 | |

DHL announced plans to lessen noise impacts on the local community by changing out certain aircraft used during its nighttime operations at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, Calif. Working with its contract airlift provider and leaders from the March ARB Joint Powers Commission, DHL will replace one DC-9 aircraft currently in operation with a quieter aircraft in September of this year. The company also continues to work with its airlift providers to potentially remove a second DC-9 from its operation in Riverside, as soon as September.

“We are aware of concerns in the surrounding area about nighttime noise from aircraft, and have been working closely with the Joint Powers Commission for the last several months to find potential solutions to these concerns,” said Red Alexander, Vice President for Aviation & Commercial Transportation, DHL Express. “While switching aircraft presents considerable operational and financial challenges for DHL, we want to demonstrate to the community that we are good neighbors.”

Alexander noted that the nature of a global cargo operation requires aircraft to move packages over night to ensure the movement of goods to trucks that make deliveries on the ground during the day.

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UPS introduces new way to manage urgent shipments

Posted by | Jul 25, 2007 | |

UPS announced the launch of UPS Express Criticalsm, a service that meshes all of UPS’s same-day and urgent capabilities into a single suite, allowing customers to more effectively manage package and heavy freight shipments together.

For the first time in the industry, customers have a single point of contact regardless of whether they’re shipping a small package or a 1,000 pound machine part – air or ground, domestic or international. Customers now have a single call center, one bill and one Website to manifest and track their truly urgent shipments.

A single “touch point” for all urgent shipping is a convenience UPS has worked to provide by meshing the capabilities of UPS SonicAir, the UPS Airlines and UPS Freight. UPS has access to virtually any type of aircraft or vehicle around the world – both those in its own fleets and those of vendors – meaning customers have a variety of time options, specialized equipment, communication systems, advanced tracking and worldwide reach to meet their needs.

UPS Express Critical likewise makes billing simple, allowing package shippers to bill their freight shipments on their package account and vice versa.

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ASTAR withdraws indication of interest for ABX Air

Posted by | Jul 25, 2007 | |

John Dasburg, the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of ASTAR Air Cargo Holdings, LLC sent the following letter to the board of directors of ABX Air, Inc. in response to a letter received on July 24, 2007 from Joseph C. Hete, President and Chief Executive Officer of ABX Air:

July 25, 2007

ABX Air, Inc. Board of Directors
c/o W. Joseph Payne, Secretary
145 Hunter Drive
Wilmington, Ohio 45177

Gentlemen:

On July 24, 2007, Joseph Hete informed me that ABX Air’s board of directors and management, having consulted with its advisors regarding ASTAR’s USD 7.75 per share indication of interest, have determined not to proceed.

ASTAR believes that the USD 7.75 per share amount reflects a full and fair price and is generous to the shareholders of ABX Air in the absence of a transaction with ASTAR. In light of your response, as reported in Mr. Hete’s letter, our board of directors has unanimously determined to pursue other alternatives and we are, therefore, withdrawing our indication of interest.

Very truly yours,

John H. Dasburg

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