Tag: USA

Report on USPS mail scanning initiative

Posted by | Dec 1, 2004 | |

Doing better business was the first theme at the Unisys Air Cargo Conference this October. Hosted as usual in Nice, France, it brought together 60 senior executives from the global industry and focused on the key areas of doing better business, outsourcing, technology and alliances. Robbie Anderson, managing director Planning & Support of Continental Airlines Cargo, was the first panel speaker to address this topic. After a general overview of Continental Airlines’ route network, the fleet (including 18 B777-200s) and the company’s cargo division, he presented details of the USPS mail scanning and cargo revenue management initiatives on which his division had worked. Both initiatives had substantially improved revenues, Anderson said. “Any time we have opportunities within the cargo department to leverage margins and revenues, we get quite a bit of interest at the executive level,” Anderson said.

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ABX Air awarded US Postal Service contract to operate air network during holidays

Posted by | Nov 29, 2004 | |

ABX Air announced today that it has been awarded a contract by the US Postal Service to manage an air network to transport mail during the busy holiday season. The network will include ABX Air aircraft as well as those of other operators. ABX Air will also provide logistics services and hub operations in support of the network. The contract calls for ABX Air to be compensated at a fixed price on a per-day basis and is expected to generate gross revenues of approximately USD5.1 million.

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DHL founder pleads ignorance in sworn testimony

Posted by | Nov 28, 2004 | |

William Armsted Robinson founded Document Handling Limited, one of the nation’s first courier services, and sold it for USD57 million last year. Competitors United Parcel Service and Federal Express, which fought the sale, wanted Robinson to testify that he was merely a financial front for the minority owner, Germany’s Deutsche Post. The US Department of Transportation eventually ruled against their claim and allowed the sale. In a transcript of his sworn confidential deposition, obtained by The Associated Press, Robinson said he had no idea how he came up with his USD60 million asking price for the company. But when he was offered $37 million, he said he responded, “Just forget it, we’re going fishing.” He testified he disregarded a financial analysis that valued the company at up to USD118 million _ more than double its ultimate sale price. And Robinson couldn’t explain why he was paid USD51 million for his 55 percent share of the company, while Deutsche Post was paid USD6 million for the remaining 45 percent.

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US Postal Service expands reach of money transfer service

Posted by | Nov 23, 2004 | |

Sure Money(R), the Postal Service’s international wire transfer service, also called Dinero Seguro(R), has expanded its reach to Latin America and the Caribbean.

Available to Mexico since 1996, Sure Money now provides customers with the ability to transfer money to nine additional countries. They are the Caribbean country of the Dominican Republic; and the Latin American countries of Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Peru. “Postal money orders have long been a favorite way for people to send money to friends and relatives internationally,” says Chief Marketing Officer Anita Bizzotto. “And Sure Money provides an electronic alternative that reduces the time it takes to receive the funds from days to minutes.”

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US Postal Service looking for rate increase

Posted by | Nov 23, 2004 | |

The US Postal Service will seek approval for a 10 percent increase in postage rates early next year, according to a report published Wednesday. First-class stamps, which have risen 12 percent since 2001, would increase to at least 41 cents, the Wall Street Journal reported in a story on its Web site. The last price increase was in 2002. According to the report, the unusually large size of the expected rate increase stems partly from the demise of proposed legislation that would have allowed the postal service to take advantage of about USD3 billion a year in pension-fund savings resulting from a change in how it contributes to a federal retirement fund. The legislation also would have freed the service from future pension payments to employees who previously served in the military.

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