Tag: USA

USPS gets a lift: RFID system designed for delivers a bonus: asset management

Posted by | Jul 24, 2006 | |

When the Postal Service launched an initiative to better maintain safety records for its industrial vehicles, the goal was modest–reduce the agency’s reporting burden.

Well over a year later, though, the Powered Industrial Vehicle Management System has produced a significant number of benefits, not only automating the reporting process but improving safety and helping USPS better manage its industrial fleet.

“This really helps facilitate the safer environment, the mechanics and the documentation,” said Victoria Stephen, manager of the material handling deployment within the USPS’ Engineering division.

USPS started the program essentially as a pilot in January 2005, when it signed a USD 3.6 million contract with I.D. Systems of Hackensack, N.J., to implement a wireless asset management system at 10 bulk mailing and distribution facilities across the country. The service has since installed the system in 56 facilities.

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How UPS went from low-tech to an IT power

Posted by | Jul 24, 2006 | |

Mr. Barnes, the 52-year-old senior vice president and chief information officer at United Parcel Service Inc., oversees a division of 4,700 employees that develops much of the company’s software, services an Internet site that draws 18.5 million visitors a day, maintains 8,700 servers and monitors 15 massive mainframes capable of processing millions of instructions per second. And he gets to spend more than $1 billion a year to do it.

Promoted 19 months ago from vice president of information-technology development for customer and operations applications, Mr. Barnes is guiding a massive implementation of computer-driven automation, Web-site enhancements and other innovations designed to wring more efficiency from a famously proficient network, which moves an average of 15 million packages a day across the world.

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Peerflix Teams with United States Postal Service to Provide Online DVD Tracking for Nation's Largest DVD Trading Network; Online DVD Tracking, Google Maps(TM) Mash-up and Printed Postage Enhance Peer-to-Peer Experience

Posted by | Jul 24, 2006 | |

Peerflix, the leading peer-to-peer (P2P) network that allows members to legally trade DVDs online, today announced a relationship with the U.S. Postal Service allowing Peerflix members to track the shipping status of their DVDs online. Peerflix members, who trade DVDs directly with one another, will be notified each time a DVD is scanned at a U.S. Postal Service location as it travels to their home, in a pioneer application of U.S. Postal Service technology traditionally leveraged by large businesses. Taking the service one step further, Peerflix added visual tracking capabilities by building a Google Maps mash-up that allows users to follow the journey of their DVD against a map of the U.S. Furthermore, Peerflix announced that postage will be automatically printed on its patent-pending PeerMailer envelopes, eliminating the need for stamps. The result for Internet users is a safe and accountable peer-to-peer network that serves a community trading more than 300,000 DVDs across the U.S. and Canada.

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Forward Air Corporation Reports Record Second Quarter 2006 Results; 12.0% Revenue Growth; 22.8% Operating Margin; 10.8% EPS Growth

Posted by | Jul 24, 2006 | |

Operating revenue for the quarter ended June 30, 2006 increased 12.0% to a record $86.8 million from $77.5 million for the same quarter in 2005. Income from operations was $19.8 million, compared with $16.8 million in the prior-year quarter, an increase of 17.7%. As a percent of operating revenue, income from operations improved to 22.8% from 21.7% for the same quarter last year. Net income during the period increased by $1.1 million, or 8.9%, to $13.0 million from $12.0 million in the prior-year quarter. Diluted income per share from operations for the second quarter of 2006 was $0.41 compared with $0.37 in the prior-year quarter, an increase of 10.8%. The second quarter of 2005 included a one-time gain of $0.9 million after-tax income, or $0.03 per diluted share, from the Company’s settlement of its lawsuit with the City of Atlanta.

Operating revenue for the six months ended June 30, 2006 increased 15.0% to $169.1 million from $147.0 million for the same period in 2005. Income from operations was $36.7 million, compared with $30.2 million in the prior-year period, an increase of 21.7%. As a percent of operating revenue, income from operations expanded to 21.7% for the first six months of 2006 from 20.5% in 2005. Net income during the period increased 16.4% to $24.0 million from $20.6 million in the prior-year period. Diluted income per share from operations for the first six months of 2006 was $0.75 compared with $0.63 in the prior-year period, an increase of 19.0%.

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Amazon joins online market for groceries

Posted by | Jul 21, 2006 | |

Amazon.com customers now can shop for groceries alongside lipstick, treadmills, textbooks, DVDs and auto parts.

The online retailer announced on Monday its entry into what industry analysts project will be a 4.2 billion USD market this year.

Amazon Grocery is selling more than 14,000 non-perishable grocery items and household supplies, mostly in bulk.

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