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DHL launches new service in south Texas

Posted by | Jul 11, 2007 | |

DHL announced it has introduced a new service in Harlingen, Texas, capable of handling triple the volume of its previous offering as well as heavier palletized freight and non-conveyable material to meet the growing needs of customers shipping into and out of the Rio Grande Valley and Northern Mexico regions.

Located at the southern tip of Texas, Harlingen is a crossroads of international commerce, offering the most efficient route to the Mexican border cities of Matamoros and Reynosa as well as the industrial city of Monterrey, via the Free Trade Bridge. The Free Trade Bridge is one of the largest and most modern ports of entry in South Texas with a full U.S. customs inspection facility that can accommodate up to 75 trucks simultaneously. DHL’s new Harlingen service will directly benefit the surrounding region’s major “maquiladora” industries, including electronics, automotive parts and medical devices.

The Harlingen service upgrade comes less than a month after DHL announced the opening of its Hermosillo, Mexico, gateway to meet the increasing demand from customers shipping across the U.S.-Mexico border from Northwest Mexico. These investments are part of DHL’s North America Trade Lane initiative, which was launched in November 2006 to increase the speed and efficiency of cross-border shipments across North America.

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Installation of new automated postal machines delayed

Posted by | Jul 11, 2007 | |

The Postal Service is delaying the second stage of installing automated postal centers in lobbies.

Spokesman Gerry McKiernan confirmed the delay Wednesday, saying the agency is studying why some of its already installed automated centers did not perform up to expectations.

About 2,500 automated postal centers have been located in post offices across the country. The centers allow customers to weigh letters and parcels, select the type of service needed and print out postage, using credit cards to pay.

A June report from the agency’s inspector general said that as many as half of the installed centers were not meeting minimum expectations.

McKiernan said of the 2,500 installed, 514 centers were not meeting expectations for various reasons.

As a result, he said, deployment of further centers is being delayed while the problem ones are being assessed. The agency also cited cost considerations in the delay.

McKiernan said that 145 of the underperforming centers are being relocated to other offices. In the other cases, officials are trying to determine if customers just don’t want to use the machines or need assistance getting started with them.

In some cases lobby directors are being put into service to help people begin using the automated centers.

An inspector general’s report had warned that installing the planned 3,000 phase two centers could end up causing a loss of USD 115 million over seven years, rather than the anticipated USD 243 million in income.

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Automated postal centres put on hold

Posted by | Jul 11, 2007 | |

The Postal Service is delaying the second stage of installing automated postal centres in lobbies.

About 2,500 automated postal centres have been located in post offices across the country. The centres allow customers to weigh letters and parcels, select the type of service needed and print out postage, using credit cards to pay.

McKiernan said of the 2,500 installed, 514 centres were not meeting expectations for various reasons.

McKiernan said that 145 of the underperforming centres are being relocated to other offices. In the other cases, officials are trying to determine if customers just don‘t want to use the machines or need assistance getting started with them.

An inspector general‘s report had warned that installing the planned 3,000 phase two centres could end up causing a loss of USD 115 million over seven years, rather than the anticipated USD 243 million in income.

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USA: Magazines braced for higher postage

Posted by | Jul 10, 2007 | |

On Saturday, the U.S. Postal Service is set to raise rates an average 12 percent for mailing magazines across the country — a move many feel favors the larger magazines at the expense of smaller ones.

The postal service contends the new standards will boost efficiency and offer users more choices by encouraging publishers to co-mail and co-palletize, which is combining multiple magazines into a single mailing.

The new rate system also includes discounts for mailers who print labels that a computer can read, as well as incentives for publishers who agree to ship their titles along with other magazines and for dropping their magazines closer to their final destinations, John Waller, director of the Postal Regulatory Commission office of Rates, Analysis and Planning, said yesterday.

Magazine publishers both locally and nationally are bracing for the new postal rate restructuring.

While the average increase is about 12 percent, the postal service said, publishers claim that postal rates for smaller publications could increase by as much as 30 percent while the increases for larger-circulation magazines could be less than 10 percent because they take advantage of the discount incentives.

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DHL spends USD 7.8 M in Minnesota

Posted by | Jul 10, 2007 | |

DHL said it has invested USD7.8 million to open a new regional sort center facility to serve its air and ground network in the Midwest.

The Plantation-based express delivery and logistics firm said the new facility, in Bloomington, Minn., relocates DHL from a 35,000-square-foot space in Blaine, Minn., to one more than double that size.

The new 79,049-square-foot regional sort center is also closer to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The company predicted its new technologies to more than double the packages it can process each hour.

DHL also recently completed a USD1.2 billion buildout of its U.S. domestic network and infrastructure, including an expanded primary air and ground hub in Wilmington, Ohio, and seven new regional sort centers throughout the country.

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