Survey of mail centre managers – operational element, includes effects of internet, downsizing, technolgoy advancements, merging of print-mail.
This is part 2 of the report, part 1 focuses on wage issues.
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Rate increases for United Parcel Service Inc., FedEx Corp. and DHL will take effect today. Rates for UPS Ground, UPS Next Day Air, UPS 2nd Day Air, UPS 3 Day Select and international services will rise 2.9 percent. UPS Hundredweight Service, an alternative to services offered by less-than-truckload carriers, will rise 5.9 percent FedEx, Memphis, will also increase its shipping rates today. The cost of its FedEx Express service will rise 2.6 percent. This includes a 4.6 percent increase in package and freight costs and a 2 percent decrease in its fuel surcharge. An indexed fuel surcharge was expected to be implemented yesterday for DHL’s DHL Ground and DHL@Home shipments. The fuel surcharge will be initially set at 2 percent.
Read MoreThe Postal Service’s version of an ATM for Postal Service customers, the Automated Postal Center (APC), is now available in all 50 states. APCs provide a quick, easy and convenient way for customers to weigh, calculate and apply exact postage, and ship Express Mail and Priority Mail items, packages and First-Class letters right at the kiosks. They also provide easy access to postal products and services the same way ATMs provide access to banking services.
Read MoreThe US Postal Service – no stranger to measuring itself for performance success and customer satisfaction – took the lead in four informal parcel delivery tests conducted by postal customers this holiday mailing season. The “New York Times,” “Grand Rapids Press” (MI), KSLTV (UT) and KTVI (MO), within days of one another, conducted mailing comparisons among the US Postal Service, DHL, FedEx and United Parcel Service, measuring delivery time, quality and cost, shipping identical items ranging from coffee mugs and holiday ornaments to pecans within each test and using comparable classes of mail.
Read MoreDeutsche Post World Net AG said its express mail courier DHL has agreed to transport 600,000 packages per year to Germany for the US Postal Service, beginning in January. No financial details were disclosed. Deutsche Post said the new contract will create 20 new jobs in its international mail centre at Frankfurt airport and 20 in its package centre in Saulheim in the German state of Rhineland Palatinate. US Postal Service’s packages to Germany were previously handled by General Logistics Systems.
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