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Relay Express growing tall on leftovers from shipping giants

Posted by | Jul 31, 2006 | |

In the world of shipping, UPS, FedEx and DHL stand tall as giants. Yet for all their trucks and planes running at all hours of the day and night, missed shipments happen.

That’s where companies such as Relay Express step in. The Cincinnatibased courier service has made a living in part by delivering those extra packages while specializing in on-demand and scheduled deliveries within cities.

Relay Express entered the Columbus market in January to perform those services in the central Ohio area, and has plans to expand. The courier’s efforts to sell its first franchises have cleared their last hurdle.

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Leo Suggs of UPS Freight to Retire; New Senior Leadership Named

Posted by | Jul 31, 2006 | |

Leo Suggs, the president of UPS Freight, has announced he will retire at the end of this year and effective immediately will devote the next five months to a broad service quality initiative at the national trucking concern.

UPS has named Gordon Mackenzie, most recently the senior vice president and chief operating officer of UPS Freight, as president. Mackenzie had held the position of chief operating officer since he joined Overnite Transportation in 1996. UPS acquired Overnite in August of 2005 and subsequently rebranded the unit as UPS Freight.

Before joining Overnite, Mackenzie served as senior vice president and chief operating officer of Preston Trucking Company Inc., from 1993 to 1996. He also held various executive positions with Standard Trucking Company, Ryder/PIE Nationwide, Inc., and Transcon Lines, Inc.

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FedEx Ground to build Triangle sort facility

Posted by | Jul 31, 2006 | |

FedEx Corp. plans to build a regional sorting facility near Raleigh-Durham International Airport to replace a smaller facility in Durham – a move that may result in new jobs.

FedEx Ground, the small-package delivery division of FedEx, has selected a piece of land near Kitty Hawk Drive and Globe Road in Morrisville to build a 128,851-square-foot facility.

The building will be 52 percent larger than FedEx Ground’s sorting facility in the Research Tri-Center industrial park in Durham, where 180 people work.

A contractor will be hired in late August, with building completion expected in August 2007. The building will be designed so that it can be easily expanded to as big as 175,000 square feet.

The new sorting facility is part of a six year, USD1.6 billion expansion program nationwide. FedEx Ground plans to build nine new hubs, expand 30 existing hubs and relocate 290 pickup and delivery terminals. The expansion will allow FedEx to expand its package capacity from 3 million to more than 5 million a day by the end of 2010.

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USPS pushes mail drives to direct bosses

Posted by | Jul 28, 2006 | |

The US Postal Service (USPS) is targeting the direct marketing industry in campaign which aims to give marketers the hard facts about direct mail effectiveness.

The company, which has traditionally concentrated its efforts on ad agencies and major advertisers, is to mail 200,000 marketers to help them to sell direct marketing to clients.

The initiative uses the strapline ‘Out-smart the office’, along with a smiling caricature of an office worker. Inside, the character offers a knowing wink, alongside the copy: ‘Here at the USPS we understand the struggles you go through, defending the media channel that’s smart, innovative and hardworking and yet often overlooked.’

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Lockheed Martin system to speed sorting of Postal Service packages

Posted by | Jul 28, 2006 | |

Packages sent via the U-S Postal Service should get where they’re going more quickly with technology that’s been developed by Lockheed Martin’s plant near Binghamton.

The Lockheed facility in Owego has received a 17-(m)-million-dollar contract to install nearly 40 optical character readers at bulk mail centers around the country.

The units will decipher handwritten addresses on packages which until now had to be sorted manually.

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