Tag: USA

FedEx big day could be record

Posted by | Oct 27, 2005 | |

FedEx expects its busiest day in company history will be Dec. 12 when an anticipated avalanche of 8.5 million packages – 400,000 more than last year’s busiest day – will be headed to doorsteps around the world through FedEx Express and FedEx Ground. FedEx typically handles 6 million packages a day.

“Economic growth continues on a healthy and sustainable pace with recent indicators suggesting that the holiday season will be solid,” said FedEx economist Gene Huang. “Improving trends in merchandise sales, business orders, the services sector and employment in the United States remain in place, and this bodes well for holiday sales.”

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DHL relocates, consolidates operations in Los Angeles

Posted by | Oct 24, 2005 | |

DHL Danzas Air & Ocean, part of the logistics division of DHL, announced today it has relocated and consolidated its three Los Angeles, Calif.-area operations into a single facility, an important step in effectively meeting customer needs during the peak shipping seasons and managing the rapid long-term growth of trans-Pacific import volumes. Located in Redondo Beach, Calif. near the Port of Long Beach and Los Angeles International Airport, the 200,000 square foot facility houses DHL Danzas Air & Ocean’s Los Angeles gateway operations; air, ocean and U.S. domestic services; customs brokerage, warehousing and Customer Program Management activities. Previously, the company’s Los Angeles operations occupied three buildings located several miles apart.

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Minister warns An Post could be ‘extinct’ in 4 years

Posted by | Oct 24, 2005 | |

An Post will be “extinct” in little more than four years unless postal workers accept major work changes, the Government has warned.

From January, private companies will be able to carry letters weighing more than 50g, and ordinary letter post will be opened up by 2009.

“We have liberalisation coming. It is inevitable in 2009. It is already there in a number of areas. If An Post isn’t strong enough to withstand competition it is going to be extinct very, very quickly after 2009, if not before that,” said Minister for Communications Noel Dempsey.

Speaking in Killarney, Co Kerry, on Saturday, the Minister was critical of existing work practices in the semi-State company.

Describing them as “archaic”, he said postmen’s basic pay had been increased over the years through the common availability of overtime. “You have a situation whereby people get paid overtime on their holidays. You have a situation where people can bank their overtime at one stage and use it at another time.”

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UPS agrees to end cigarette deliveries

Posted by | Oct 24, 2005 | |

UPS will stop delivering cigarettes to individuals in the United States under an agreement announced Monday with state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

The agreement is the latest in federal and state efforts to combat the sale of under-taxed cigarette and to fight underage smoking.
Monday’s agreement leaves only the U.S. Postal Service among major carriers to continue to deliver cigarettes to individuals, Spitzer said. He called that practice “an embarrassment.”

Despite a new policy adopted by the Postal Service in September to refuse delivery of illegal products, the federal service allows employees to accept packages suspected of containing under-taxed cigarettes, Spitzer said.

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