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DHL adds new Asia Pacific flights direct to New York

Posted by | Aug 3, 2006 | |

DHL, the express delivery and logistics company, today announced the introduction of five new direct overnight flights from key Asia Pacific markets directly into DHL’s International Gateway located at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. The new flights will increase the air capacity of DHL’s global transportation network by eight tons daily, enhancing DHL’s ability to serve current and new customers along the fast-growing U.S.-Asia Pacific trade lane.

DHL’s new flights to New York’s JFK Airport consist of two daily direct flights from DHL’s Central Asia Hub in Hong Kong, and one direct flight each from DHL’s hubs in Bangkok, Thailand; Singapore; and Taipei, Taiwan.

In 2004, the Asia Pacific-U.S. trade lane accounted for USD 533 billion in exports to the U.S. The new direct DHL flights to New York significantly increase cargo capacity on air routes from Asia Pacific to the U.S. East coast to meet customer demand, and underscore DHL’s ongoing commitment to providing the most extensive international air express network for customers throughout Asia Pacific and the U.S. With the addition of these new flights, DHL customers will also benefit from enhanced next day express services to the U.S. using DHL International Document Service and DHL Worldwide Priority Express; later cut-off times, and earlier delivery times for shipments originating in Asia Pacific and destined for the greater New York/New Jersey area.

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The mail and the Net U.S. Postal Service gets an online boost

Posted by | Aug 3, 2006 | |

At a recent conference that attracted 15,000 eBay enthusiasts to Las Vegas, the main sponsor was a big advocate of online shopping: the U.S. Postal Service.

Yet the Internet is actually injecting new life, and sorely needed revenue, into the Postal Service. And it is happening with packages, millions of them shipped every day, in a journey that starts with a few mouse clicks and ends days later at a customer’s door.
In 2005, revenue from first-class mail like cards and letters, which still made up more than half the Postal Service’s total sales of USD 66.6 billion, dropped nearly 1 percent from 2004. But revenue from packages helped make up for much of that drop, rising 2.8 percent to USD 8.6 billion last year, as it handled nearly three billion packages.
It is impossible to say how many of these were online orders, but Postal Service officials give e-commerce a lot of credit.

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Postal Service Names New Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President

Posted by | Aug 3, 2006 | |

Harold Glen Walker, a Certified Public Accountant with over 30 years of domestic and international financial experience, has been named Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President for the U.S. Postal Service.

In his new position with the Postal Service, Walker is responsible for the organization’s Finance, Treasury, Information Technology, and Supply Management functions. He will serve as a member of the Executive Committee, reporting to the Postmaster General, and will also serve as Chairman of the corporate Capital Investment Committee.Walker previously was Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer for Invensys Control, and was also Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for a significant portion of Whirlpool Corporation’s international operations, encompassing 35 nations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. While at Whirlpool, Walker organized and located a shared services center in Dublin, Ireland that has served as a model for many major multi-national companies.

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Postal Service Finds A Friend In The Internet

Posted by | Aug 2, 2006 | |

Internet injects new life and sorely needed revenue into US Postal Service, which is handling millions of packages shipped daily by on-line vendors; eBay is so important that Postal Service sponsored recent Las Vegas conference of 15,000 eBay fanatics, who heard thanks from Postmaster General John E Potter; revenue from first-class mail made up more than half of Postal Service’s total sales of USD 66.6 billion in 2005, decline from 2004, while revenue from packages increased 2.8 percent, to USD 8.6 billion; photos; shippers like FedEx, DHL and United Parcel Service also benefit from online shoppping and Netflix is so dependent on mail that it brought in former postmaster general William J Henderson as its chief operations officer.

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