Tag: USA

The US Postal Service is going to give first-class treatment to first-class mail, to beat back UPS and FedEx.

Posted by | Jul 8, 2005 | |

If the US Postal Service has its way, “the check is in the mail” excuse will no longer be valid. The company that sent you the bill could verify whether you’re bluffing through a bar code on the return envelope scanned by the Postal Service. That tracking system, which starts this month, is one way the Postal Service is making first-class mail such as bills and personal correspondence more valuable, in a world full of e-mail and electronic documents. The Postal Service says a financial institution will test the system in July by using the new bar code. The customer will track mail as it winds through the Postal Service’s 283 processing and distribution centers across the country. Currently, mail is mostly scanned at the beginning and delivery points. By year’s end, all letter mail could be tracked at Postal Service facilities. The Postal Service will add commercial customers throughout 2006.

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Memphis contract drivers sue FedEx

Posted by | Jul 6, 2005 | |

FedEx delivery drivers argue in a federal lawsuit that the company so tightly controls their work they should be employees rather than independent contractors. The US District Court suit is similar to lawsuits filed by FedEx drivers or former drivers in other states accusing the company of denying them overtime pay, health insurance, workman’s compensation coverage and other benefits provided for company employees. The Memphis suit, which seeks to represent more than 1,000 drivers in Tennessee, says that while they must buy their own trucks, FedEx regulates the smallest details on how they are used, maintained and even painted. The drivers, wearing uniforms purchased from FedEx, are told what packages to deliver and when to deliver them, and they can be assigned deliveries off their regular routes any time the company desires, plaintiff’s lawyer Joree Brownlow said Wednesday. “They are in fact treated like employees,” Brownlow said.

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UPS reviews US cigarette shipments

Posted by | Jul 6, 2005 | |

UPS said it’s reviewing its policy on carrying tobacco products, even as rival DHL announced it will stop delivering cigarettes to individual consumers nationwide under an agreement announced Tuesday with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer said DHL is the first major shipping company to agree to the ban, and negotiations continue with other companies and the U.S. Postal Service. UPS confirmed Tuesday that it is in talks with Spitzer’s office. It described the talks as “very cooperative” but declined to discuss specifics or comment on DHL’s announcement.

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FedEx makes second Asia hub in southern China airport

Posted by | Jul 5, 2005 | |

US logistics giant, FedEx, will sign an agreement early next month to make Guangzhou’s Baiyun Airport in southern China its second Asia-Pacific hub, a report said Tuesday. Citing unnamed sources close to the deal, the Standard newspaper here said the Guangzhou Baiyun Airport Authority would spend up to 1.5 billion yuan (181 million US dollars) to build a warehouse and a runway for the company. Construction would start in August next year and be completed in October 2008 if the deal is approved by China’s State Council, or cabinet, and its aviation authority. FedEx’s other hub is at the US military’s former Clark air force base in the Philippines.

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UPS expands technology for greater inbound visibility

Posted by | Jul 5, 2005 | |

UPS today unveiled a technology enhancement that automatically notifies customers of every package in the UPS system moving toward them, providing a new tool to better manage the demands of business. The software technology opening a new “window” into the UPS system is called UPS Quantum View Inbound and represents the most recent addition to the UPS Quantum View suite of visibility services. Quantum View Inbound provides proactive notification of UPS air express, ground and international packages that are en route to the receiver’s location.

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