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Postal Service may move all to Stamford

Posted by | May 23, 2007 | |

The U.S. Postal Service is considering plans to consolidate the Bridgeport Processing and Distribution Facility to save USD 17.7 million over 10 years.

The Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General recently completed an “efficiency review” that found there is a “favorable business case” to transfer incoming mail processing operations from the facility in Bridgeport, Conn., to a larger facility in Stamford, Conn.

Outgoing mail processing was transferred last year to Stamford, but the Postal Service did not move incoming mail processing operations because of concerns that Stamford could not handle the additional volume of work. The recent review found that Stamford could handle the additional load.

The auditors found that Stamford has the capacity to process about 405 million additional letter pieces and could absorb the 242 million pieces of incoming mail that are now processed in Bridgeport.

The work hour savings could be accomplished through attrition since a large number of workers at the facilities are reaching retirement age. By the end of fiscal year 2011, there will be 57 of 95 Bridgeport employees and 198 of 446 Stamford employees eligible for retirement, the report said.

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Earth Class Mail Finalist in CNET Webware 100

Posted by | May 23, 2007 | |

Earth Class Mail™, a global service that delivers postal mail online, is a finalist for CNET’s “Webware 100” awards.

The Earth Class Mail online postal service gives customers online access to their postal mail from anywhere in the world, at any time.

Editors selected Earth Class Mail from nearly 2,000 companies as one of the best Web 2.0 sites and services in the world. Other finalists in the communications category include technology giants such as AOL, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. Users vote for their favorite 10 companies in 10 selected categories.

“We’re honored to be a finalist in the Webware 100,” says Ron Wiener, CEO of Earth Class Mail Corporation. “It is very humbling to be in a position of competing with major technology players such as Microsoft and Google. It is a great endorsement of what we are doing for our customers – allowing them to be 100 percent mobile by managing their postal mail from anywhere,” he added.
Earth Class Mail™ receives customers’ mail each day, scans the outside of the sealed envelopes and presents these images to the customer online. The customer then determines whether to have the mail opened and scanned, shredded, recycled, transferred elsewhere, or forward-shipped – similar to how people manage voice mails and emails.

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Catalogers Deliver to Chicago Area via the Tribune

Posted by | May 23, 2007 | |

With the recent hike in postal rates, delivering direct mail via newspapers has become a popular way of getting catalogs into the hands of consumers.

With that in mind, the Tribune Company launched Direct Delivery +, a low-cost alternative available via the Chicago Tribune that allows catalogs to be delivered with the newspapers, writes DM News.

For 9 cents per catalog, a marketer provides the Chicago Tribune with their mail files, which are then matched against a list of paid newspaper subscribers at the sub-zip code level, looking for areas where there is a high percentage of matches between the brand marketer’s list and Tribune subscribers. Mailing via the USPS can cost as much as 20 cents per catalog.
The Tribune also offers lifestyle segmentation analyses of areas that are not necessarily on the cataloger’s mailing list to see if those areas are worth targeting.

The program is available only in Chicago, where the Chicago Tribune has more than 660,000 home-delivery subscribers on Sundays. The Tribune Company expects to roll out the program in other markets in 2008.

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USPS open office at The Bookstore

Posted by | May 23, 2007 | |

The United States Post Office recently opened a Contract Postal Unit at The Bookstore, 399 Campbellsville Bypass, Suite 207.

The CPU will provide a full range of postal services except for selling money orders. The CPU is another way to extend postal services to a different area of town and make it convenient to do business with the USPS.

The CPU will have extended hours beyond the traditional post office. It will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday (except Wednesday), 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday and closed on Sundays.

The CPU will be closed on six holidays compared to the 13 holidays that the post office at the Broadway location is closed.

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UPS

Posted by | May 22, 2007 | |

UPS announced its fleet of alternative-fuel vehicles – already the industry’s largest – had expanded with the deployment of 50 next-generation hybrid electric delivery trucks.

The 50 hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) will operate in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix. These new trucks join roughly 20,000 low-emission and alternative-fuel vehicles already in use.

“We’re excited to be among the first to deploy the latest in HEV technology because it promises a 45% increase in fuel economy in addition to a dramatic decrease in vehicle emissions,” said Robert Hall, Director of UPS Ground Fleet Engineering.

The 50 new HEV package cars are expected to reduce fuel consumption by roughly 44,000 gallons over the course of a year compared to an equivalent number of traditional diesel trucks. The hybrids also should reduce by 457 metric tons the amount of CO2 gases released annually into the atmosphere.

The new hybrid power system allows UPS to use a smaller diesel engine than would be required in a conventional delivery truck, thus saving on fuel and pollution-causing emissions. A battery pack, motor/generator and power control system are added, which allows electric power to be fed into the powertrain when conditions demand it, providing further savings.

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